Wainwright v. Harper

How courts have described this case

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

• the transfer of a mortgage without a transfer of the underlying debt is “a mere nullity”
• “transfer of the note, without any formal transfer of the mortgage, transfers the mortgage”
• the security instrument cannot “be sold separately from the debt itself, and the transfer of the mortgage, without a transfer of the debt intended to be secured thereby, is a mere nullity”
• the security instrument cannot “be sold separately from the debt itself, and the transfer of the mortgage, without a transfer of the debt intended to be secured thereby, is a mere nullity”
• objection too late when raised for the first time upon trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).