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.
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By statutes that have been enacted everywhere, the mortgagee's interest, or conditional title in the property conveyed to him, is secure by recording the deed even though the mortgagor still retains possession.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
If a testator devises mortgaged land, is the devisee or person who receives the land also entitled to the money due from the mortgagor?
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
If they are destroyed by fire, the mortgagor cannot claim to have the insurance applied in liquidation of the mortgage debt.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
Whether you have “foreclosed” or not, the property is virtually yours; the mortgagor has no equity in it.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
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