Terms Used In Tennessee Code 13-20-609

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contract: means any agreement of an authority with or for the benefit of an obligee whether contained in a resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, lease, bond or other instrument. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Government: includes the state and federal governments and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage: includes deeds of trust, mortgages, building and loan contracts or other instruments conveying real or personal property as security for bonds and conferring a right to foreclose and cause a sale thereof. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

The authority may agree in any mortgage made by it that such mortgage shall be subordinate to a contract for the supervision by a government of the operation of improvements thereon; in such event, any purchaser or purchasers at a sale of the property of an authority pursuant to a foreclosure of such mortgage or any other remedy in connection therewith shall obtain title subject to such contract.