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Timestamp: 2018-07-19 03:36:55
Document Index: 173646187

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2111', '§ 2120', '§ 2113', '§ 2114', '§ 2111', '§ 2116']

Delaware Assignment and Satisfaction of Mortgage Law – Real Estate
Assignment: An assignment of a mortgage or any sealed instrument attested by 1 creditable witness shall be valid and effectual to convey all the right and interests of the assignor. Recording is not required, but recommended in order to avoid complications.
Demand to Satisfy: Upon the payoff of the mortgage, the mortgagor may request that the mortgagee satisfy the mortgage of record, whereupon the mortgagee shall do so within 60 days, or face liability (see Penalty, below).
Recording Satisfaction: When a debt or duty, secured by a mortgage, or conveyance in the nature of a mortgage is satisified or performed, the person or corporation in whom the title under such mortgage or conveyance is, shall upon the reasonable request and at the proper cost of the mortgagor, his heirs or assigns, execute and acknowledge a sufficient reconveyance of the premises contained in such mortgage, or conveyance in the nature of a mortgage.
Penalty: Whoever, being the holder of a mortgage, wilfully fails to satisfy a mortgage upon the record as required shall be fined not more than $1,000 for each such failure. The Recorder of Deeds or the mortgage commissioner of the county in which any mortgage is recorded that has been satisfied or performed shall file a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office in said county against any mortgage holder who has not satisfied of record said mortgage within 60 days of its satisfaction or performance.
Acknowledgment: An assignment or satisfaction must contain a proper Delaware acknowledgment, or other acknowledgment approved by Statute.
(a) An assignment of a mortgage or any sealed instrument attested by 1 creditable witness shall be valid and effectual to convey all the right and interests of the assignor.
(b) All assignments of mortgages or any sealed instruments heretofore made in the presence of 1 witness and all satisfactions made by assignees in such assignments are made good and valid.
§ 2111. Satisfaction of mortgages; penalty; enforcement in Superior Court.
(a) Whenever the debt or duty secured by a mortgage or conveyance in the nature of a mortgage affecting properties in New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties is satisfied or performed, the legal holder of such mortgage or conveyance at the time the satisfaction or performance is completed shall, forthwith, after satisfaction or performance is completed, cause an entry of such satisfaction or performance to be made upon the record by the procedure enumerated in this subsection. The fee for entering such satisfaction or performance upon the record shall be paid by the debtor or obligor unless the mortgage or conveyance provides otherwise.
(1) A satisfaction of a mortgage or conveyance shall be made by recordation of either a satisfaction piece, if the instrument is presented in substantially the same form as set out in subsection (b) of this section and acknowledged in the same manner as provided by law for the acknowledgment of deeds, or an attorney’s affidavit pursuant to § 2120 of this title. The satisfaction piece shall be presented to the Recorder, and the Recorder shall accept such document for recordation providing such document conforms to the requirements set out in subsection (b) of this section.
(2) If a full or partial release of the mortgage or conveyance is recorded, the recorder of deeds shall place a reference to a book and page number in the indices as to where the release is recorded.
(b) Each Recorder shall either create and maintain a separate index and record of the recording of documents which are authorized to be recorded by this chapter including, but not limited to, powers of attorney to satisfy mortgages, satisfaction pieces, partial and complete releases of mortgages and security interests or index the same in the index used for recorded mortgages. If the Recorder creates a separate index, it may be called the Release and satisfaction Index, which shall reference the mortgagor, mortgagee, record book and page of the mortgage being released or satisfied and the address or lot number, if any, of the property being released or satisfied. The Recorder may also maintain a separate record of said instruments and shall not be required to maintain other than a micrographic or electronic record of said instruments.
(c) Whoever, being the holder of a mortgage, willfully fails to satisfy a mortgage upon the record as required by subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 for each such failure.
(d) The Recorder of Deeds or the mortgage commissioner of the county in which any mortgage is recorded that has been satisfied or performed shall file a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office in said county against any mortgage holder who has not satisfied of record said mortgage within 60 days of its satisfaction or performance.
(e) The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction of offenses under this section.
§ 2113. Effect of entry of satisfaction. An entry of satisfaction or performance made in accordance with this chapter shall extinguish the mortgage or conveyance, and the effect shall be the same as if such mortgage or conveyance had not been made.
§ 2114. Damages for nonentry of satisfaction. If any person commits a default under § 2111 of this title, such person, his executors or administrators, or if it is a corporation, such corporation, in addition to the other penalties provided for shall be liable to the party by or on whose behalf the satisfaction or performance has been made or completed, in damages to be recovered by a civil action. The damages shall not be less than $10 nor more than $500, except when special damage to a larger amount is alleged in the complaint and proved.
§ 2116. Reconveyance upon satisfaction or performance. When a debt or duty, secured by a mortgage, or conveyance in the nature of a mortgage is satisified or performed, the person or corporation in whom the title under such mortgage or conveyance is, shall upon the reasonable request and at the proper cost of the mortgagor, his heirs or assigns, execute and acknowledge a sufficient reconveyance of the premises contained in such mortgage, or conveyance in the nature of a mortgage.