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  2. Bona fide purchaser - Wikipedia

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    A bona fide purchaser (BFP) – referred to more completely as a bona fide purchaser for value without notice – is a term used predominantly in common law jurisdictions in the law of real property and personal property to refer to an innocent party who purchases property without notice of any other party's claim to the title of that property ...

  3. Third-party beneficiary - Wikipedia

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    A donee beneficiary is when a contract is made expressly for giving a gift to a third party, the third party is known as the donee beneficiary. The most common donee beneficiary contract is a life insurance policy. In the United States, the Restatement (Second) of Contracts, Chapter 6, Sections 133-147, covers third-party beneficiaries. [5]

  4. Security interest - Wikipedia

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    The beneficiary of a mortgage (the mortgagee) is entitled to pursue all of its remedies concurrently [16] or consecutively. [f] Foreclosure is rarely exercised as a remedy. To execute foreclosure, the secured party needs to petition the court, [g] and the order is made in two stages (nisi and absolute), making the process slow and cumbersome ...

  5. Deed of trust (real estate) - Wikipedia

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    Transactions involving deeds of trust are normally structured, at least in theory, so that the lender/beneficiary gives the borrower/trustor the money to buy the property; the borrower/trustor tenders the money to the seller; the seller executes a grant deed giving the property to the borrower/trustor; and the borrower/trustor immediately executes a deed of trust giving the property to the ...

  6. Equitable interest - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps the most common example of an equitable interest is the interest of a beneficiary under a trust. Under a trust, the trustee has a legal interest in the trust property and all of the rights and powers that follow from that legal interest (for example, rights to deal with that trust property and to invest trust property), subject to the ...

  7. Mortgage law - Wikipedia

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    A mortgage lender is an investor that lends money secured by a mortgage on real estate. In today's world, most lenders sell the loans they write on the secondary mortgage market. When they sell the mortgage, they earn revenue called Service Release Premium. Typically, the purpose of the loan is for the borrower to purchase that same real estate.

  8. Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act - Wikipedia

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    For example, a lender advertising a home loan might have advertised the loan with a 5% interest rate, but then when one applies for the loan one is told that one must use the lender's affiliated title insurance company and pay $5,000 for the service, whereas the normal rate is $1,000.

  9. Subrogation - Wikipedia

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    Subrogation is the assumption by a third party (such as a second creditor or an insurance company) of another party's legal right to collect debts or damages. [1] It is a legal doctrine whereby one person is entitled to enforce the subsisting or revived rights of another for their own benefit. [2]