Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 45.45.060

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060

A contract made in the state between borrower and lender, debtor and creditor, or mortgagor and mortgagee, on which the rate of interest is the legal rate of interest specified in Alaska Stat. § 45.45.010 or less, by which one party agrees to pay the taxes on the debt, credit, or mortgage existing or entered into between the parties, is legal and valid and is not usurious.