Kane v. Inhabitants of Harpswell (In Re Kane)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that creditor’s notice of foreclosure was perfection of lien in violation of automatic stay and therefore void
• Court held that regardless of the procedural requirements imposed by Maine statutes concerning notice of a tax lien mortgage, the end effect resulted in a violation of the automatic stay
• “courts have often treated [installment land sales contracts] as secured debts”
• “[Wjhatever procedural requirements are imposed by Maine statutes, the effect of the Notice was perfection of a lien against property of the estate which arose before the commencement of the case, and hence violated the automatic stay.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).