This appears to be a civil law concept that only appears in English in civil law jurisdictions (Quebec, Louisiana, English translations of German law, etc.)

Hope this fits your context!

...un derecho real que conlleva derecho de persecución y derecho de preferencia sobre el bien hipotecado. Esto faculta al acreedor a perseguir el bien en cualquier mano que se encuentre, téngalo quien lo tenga. Es decir el acreedor aunque no adquiría la propiedad ni la posesión de la cosa, tenía un derecho especial, que le permitía tomar posesión de la cosa si el deudor incumplía sus obligaciones.
http://club.telepolis.com/manuelp1/derecho.htm

A secured debt consists in the right of a creditor to ask for payment, ... A mortgage confers on its holder a right of pursuit and a preferential right. A ...
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n 1977, respondent, who was both creditor of Montclair Investment ... The attributes of the real right are the right of pursuit and the right of preference ...
www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/pub/1988/vol1/texte/1988s...

Pledging shall confer on the creditor:. - a right of pursuit and a right of sale ... Registered creditors shall exercise their right of pursuit and right of ...
www.jurisint.org/ohada/text/text.04.en.html

Of course, in this case SP's deficiency claim does not carry a right to priority associated with a secured creditor. The Right of Pursuit ...
www.law.ualberta.ca/research/pers_ppty_sec_law/ppsa_overvie... -
The information that the debtor must deliver to the creditor on the ... guarantee shall not cease and the creditor shall reserve the right of pursuit on the ...
www.mexadv.com/archivo/additions_neg_inst_credit_op.htm

On the simple written application of the property owner, creditor of the ... This right of pursuit is one of. the major characteristics of the mortgage as a ...
www.la-fcca.org/Opinions/Pub2000/Aug2000/99CA0739.July.Pete...