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It represents the transfer of ownership from your mortgage lender to you. Over the time you repaid your mortgage, you legally owned the property, but the lender held the mortgage lien, or claim ...
Assignment [a] is a legal term used in the context of the laws of contract and of property. In both instances, assignment is the process whereby a person, the assignor, transfers rights or benefits to another, the assignee. [1] An assignment may not transfer a duty, burden or detriment without the express agreement of the assignee.
In law, conveyancing is the transfer of legal title of real property from one person to another, or the granting of an encumbrance such as a mortgage or a lien. [1] A typical conveyancing transaction has two major phases: the exchange of contracts (when equitable interests are created) and completion (also called settlement, when legal title passes and equitable rights merge with the legal title).
The conveyance is done by the seller(s) signing a deed for buyer(s) or their attorneys or other agents to record the transfer of ownership. Often other paperwork is necessary at the closing. The date of the closing is normally also the date when possession of the real estate is transferred from the seller(s) to the buyer(s). However, the real ...
A transfer deed is a document used in conveyancing in England and Wales to transfer real property from its legal owner to another party. Sometimes referred to as a transfer and formerly a conveyance or assignment (if a transfer of an existing Leasehold title). Several different forms of transfer are used, depending on the circumstances of the ...
A lease and release is a form of conveyance of real property involving the lease of land by its owner to a tenant, followed by a release (relinquishment) of the landlord's interest in the property to the tenant. This sequence of transactions was commonly used to transfer full freehold title to real estate under real property law.
A real estate transaction is the process whereby rights in a unit of property (or designated real estate) are transferred between two or more parties, e.g. in the case of conveyance one party being the seller(s) and the other being the buyer(s). It can often be quite complicated due to the complexity of the property rights being transferred ...
Only a conveyance, as a separate legal act, can effect the transfer agreed to by contract between the parties. Scotland has an abstract property legal system, meaning the conveyance does rely on the causa of the transfer. [6] In Scots law the recognised causae traditionis for transfer of property are: loan for consumption , gift