Terms Used In Indiana Code 26-2-2-2

  • 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.
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
   Sec. 2. The mortgagee of household goods shall not be entitled to the possession of the mortgaged property unless the mortgage specially provides that the mortgagee shall have possession of the mortgaged property from the time the mortgage is executed until sale, as provided in this chapter, and the mortgagee takes actual possession of such property when the mortgage is executed and holds it continuously until sale. In all other cases, the possession of the mortgaged property shall remain in the mortgagor until he is divested of his title by sale, as provided in section 1 of this chapter.

Formerly: Acts 1897, c.176, s.2. As amended by P.L.152-1986, SEC.302.