Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 6 > Chapter 24B > Subchapter I - General Provisions

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Document: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101

• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• 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}
• Foreclosure consultant: means a person who:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2402B

• Foreclosure consulting service: includes :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2402B

• Foreclosure purchaser: means a person who acquires title or possession of a deed or other document transferring title to a residence in foreclosure as a result of a foreclosure reconveyance. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2402B
• Foreclosure reconveyance: means a transaction involving:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2402B

• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Homeowner: means the record owner of a residence in default or a residence in foreclosure. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2402B
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• 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.
• Person: means a natural person, partnership (whether general or limited), limited liability company, trust (including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust or any other form of trust), estate, association (including any group, organization, co-tenancy, plan, board, council or committee), corporation, government (including a country, state, county or any other governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality), custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity (or series thereof) in its own or any representative capacity, in each case, whether domestic or foreign. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainderman: One entitled to the remainder of an estate after a particular reserved right or interest, such as a life tenancy, has expired.
• Resale: means a bona fide market sale of property subject to a foreclosure reconveyance by the foreclosure purchaser to an unaffiliated third party. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2402B
• Residence in default: means residential real property consisting of not more than 4 single-family dwelling units, 1 of which is occupied by the owner as the individual's principal place of residence, and on which the mortgage is at least 60 days in default. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2402B
• Residence in foreclosure: means residential real property consisting of not more than 4 single-family dwelling units, 1 of which is occupied by the owner as the individual's principal place of residence, and against which any type of foreclosure action has been filed. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2402B
• Settlement: means an in-person, face-to-face meeting with the homeowner to complete final documents incident to the sale or transfer of real property, or the creation of a mortgage or equitable interest in real property, conducted by a settlement agent who is not employed by, or an affiliate of, the foreclosure purchaser, during which the homeowner must be presented with a completed copy of the HUD-1 Settlement form. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2402B
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: means the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any state, territory, possession, or other jurisdiction of the United States other than the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302