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Terms Used In Utah Code 57-1-31
Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
(a)
Whenever all or a portion of the principal sum of any obligation secured by a trust deed has, prior to the maturity date fixed in the obligation, become due or been declared due by reason of a breach or default in the performance of any obligation secured by the trust deed, including a default in the payment of interest or of any installment of principal, or by reason of failure of the trustor to pay, in accordance with the terms of the trust deed, taxes, assessments, premiums for insurance, or advances made by the beneficiary in accordance with terms of the obligation or of the trust deed, the trustor or the trustor’s successor in interest in the trust property or any part of the trust property or any other person having a subordinate lien or encumbrance of record on the trust property or any beneficiary under a subordinate trust deed, at any time within three months of the filing for record of notice of default under the trust deed, if the power of sale is to be exercised, may pay to the beneficiary or the beneficiary’s successor in interest the entire amount then due under the terms of the trust deed (including costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the terms of the obligation, or trust deed, and the trustee‘s and attorney’s fees actually incurred) other than that portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred, and thereby cure the existing default.
(b)
After the beneficiary or beneficiary’s successor in interest has been paid and the default cured, the obligation and trust deed shall be reinstated as if no acceleration had occurred.
(2)
(a)
If the default is cured and the trust deed reinstated in the manner provided in Subsection (1), and a reasonable fee is paid for cancellation, including the cost of recording the cancellation of notice of default, the trustee shall:
(i)
execute, acknowledge, and deliver a cancellation of the recorded notice of default under the trust deed; and
(ii)
mail, by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, with postage prepaid, within 20 days, a copy of the recorded cancellation of notice of default to each person entitled to receive a copy of a notice of default and a copy of a notice of sale under Subsection 57-1-26(3).
(b)
A trustee who refuses to execute and record this cancellation within 30 days is liable to the person curing the default for all actual damages resulting from this refusal.
(c)
A reconveyance given by the trustee or the execution of a trustee’s deed constitutes a cancellation of a notice of default.
(d)
Otherwise, a cancellation of a recorded notice of default under a trust deed is, when acknowledged, entitled to be recorded and is sufficient if made and executed by the trustee in substantially the following form:
