mortgagor
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What really gives FHA insured mortgages distinction is that not only must the mortgagor and the servicing agent be approved but the mortgagee who puts up the funds must also pass muster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even their rancour, however, has moderated slightly just of late, for they are as afraid to foreclose on unsaleable property as the mortgagor is of losing his claim on it for ever.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
An intending mortgagor is accordingly required to show a title easily marketable, and to verify it at his own cost.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
The covenants for title implied by a mortgagor conveying “as beneficial owner” are the same as in the case of a vendor, but they are absolute and not qualified in the manner above pointed out.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
Suppose the mortgagor was a nurseryman, and the land was taken for the debt by the mortgagee, would it include the trees and shrubs that had been planted for sale?
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
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