Brand v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Fairbanks

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court had in that instance properly set off the fees for one party's lien enforcement claims against the successful claims of the other party
• stating that a \deed of trust is 'a mortgage in effect' \ and \only creates a lien\
• stating that “a deed of trust is ‘a mortgage in effect,’ being only a somewhat different device for accomplishing the same purpose, creating a security interest in land”
• applying the lien theory to deeds of trust as well as to mortgages
• “[A] deed of trust conveys only a lien....’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).