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The vast majority of states in the United States employ a system of recording legal instruments (otherwise known as deeds registration) that affect the title of real estate as the exclusive means for publicly documenting land titles and interests.
Both mortgages and deeds of trust are essentially security instruments in the form of conveyances; that is, they appear to provide on their face for absolute conveyances of legal title, but it is implicitly understood that the borrower is retaining equitable title and the conveyance is intended to merely create a security interest.
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 Black's Law Dictionary on its part defines a bill of sale as "an instrument for the conveyance of title to personal property, absolutely or by way of security". According to Omotola the bill of sale is "a form of legal mortgage of chattels".
Conveyance is the act of transferring property ownership from one person or entity to a new person or entity. A deed of reconveyance is a document that transfers the title of a property from the ...
A deed is a legal document that is signed and delivered, especially concerning the ownership of property or legal rights. Specifically, in common law, a deed is any legal instrument in writing which passes, affirms or confirms an interest, right, or property and that is signed, attested, delivered, and in some jurisdictions, sealed.
As the lessee now owned both the current and future interests in the land, the lease and release amounted to a conveyance and was held to be equivalent to a feoffment. [4] The original lease and release was devised by Sergeant Moore for the benefit of Lord Norris, "to avoid the unpleasant notoriety of a livery or attornment." [5]
The debt instrument is, in civil law jurisdictions, ... This was the mortgage by conveyance (aka mortgage in fee) or, when written, ...