Negron v. Gordon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that mortgagee holds legal title subject to defeasance
• examining “other parts of the statute” to determine its “general meaning and object”
• “It is only for the purpose of securing the debt that the mortgagee is to be considered owner of the property.”
• “It is only for the purpose of securing the debt that the mortgagee is to be considered owner of the property”
• “[T]he mortgagee holds bare legal title to the property subject to defeasance on the mortgagor’s performance of the obligation secured by the mortgage”
• mortgagee not in possession cannot be held responsible for violations of sanitary code

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).