Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-35-104

  • 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.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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 an individual, firm, association, partnership, estate, trust, fiduciary, syndicate or corporation. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102

No corporation qualified to engage in the business of title insurance under this chapter shall guarantee the payment of any note, bond, mortgage or obligation of any other person or corporation, or execute collateral trust indentures as principal, or issue bonds secured by mortgages pledged under collateral trust indentures or certificates of participation in notes or mortgages, or engage in the business of banking.