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Originally Posted by KarenM
Check out this article from Forbes.com 6/18/07
Looks like someone finally found a way to smack down some of those foreclosure artists.
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This doesn't look like a silver bullet for everyone facing foreclosure, but it's better than a sharp stick in the eye.
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this would not stop me from foreclosing on you if I was holding your note ...
this article is about a mortgage company that sold the note AFTER it went into default ... for a lender to file an affidavit saying they lost the note after they sold it, they would be committing fraud ... the buyer of the note cannot be a holder of due course because they had public notice that the note was not good ... if the buyer of the note bought it for value in good faith without any notice of a defense then they have every right to enforce the note or have their agent (original lender) enforce it ...
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/3/article3.htm#s3-302
the concept of the holder of due course (and endorser of due course) is the key concept in all of these issues ... for an assignee to qualify as a holder of due course the note must be:
1. negotiable in form (in writing, signed, unconditional, for a sum certain in lawful money only, in time or on demand, and to order) and
2. negotiated (bought and sold) to
3. a holder (physical possessor of the note)
4. for valuable consideration (as measured in gold at a par value of $42.2222 per ounce, see my above article)
5. without notice of any claim, defense, or default
because of the public notice of default the holder of the notes in the forbes article was ineligible to be a holder of due course ...
the METRIS VS EDWARDS foreclosure is the only one that has been successfully defended because EDWARDS demanded METRIS testify what the VALUE (in gold at $42.2222 per ounce) of the consideration (lender's credit) was at the time of the loan - hence METRIS could not hold in due course because they knew their consideration was not as valuable as they negotiated it for ...
http://www.citizensoftheamericanconstitution.org/
nevertheless, under the 1988 United Nations convention on INTERNATIONAL bills of exchange and INTERNATIONAL promissory notes, a 'protected holder' has the rights of a holder of due course if they acquired the note in good faith EVEN IF IT WAS NOT FOR VALUE ... i would argue that an acquisition cannot be in good faith without value, but then again I am not a communist like what can be found at the United Nations ... however, the 'protected holder' designation applies to international bills of exchange and international promissory notes and is contrary to the Uniform Commercial Code in your state which the court is applying to evict you ...