POINT II
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FAILURE TO FILE SATISFACTION OF PAID MORTGAGE WITHIN 30 DAYS IS
A VIOLATION OF RPAPL 1921 AND N.Y. Jur.2d Mortgages Section 375
Plaintiff-Respondent filed a Notice of Pendens (A - 43) on
the paid and satisfied mortgage as Plaintiff-Respondent's own
Certification of Loan Payoff shows (A - 174) and their Notice of
Satisfaction (A - 175). This was a clear violation of law and
as such Defendants-Appellants cite the following from 78 N.Y.
Jur 2d Mortgages Section 375 which states:
"While the mortgage is extinguished by its payment, the
instrument executed by the mortgagee to remove the mortgage
recording of a mortgage creates a lien against the real
property and necessitates the recording of a formal
from the record. Such an instrument is called a
certificate of discharge, a certificate of satisfaction,
or a satisfaction piece. The instrument is the exclusive
property of the mortgagor and can only be used or recorded
by or with the knowledge and consent of, the mortgagor.
Should the holder of the mortgage fail or refuse to execute,
acknowledge, and deliver such satisfaction piece, the
mortgagee has available a number of remedies, including
a statutory summary proceeding for an order canceling
the mortgage of record."
"A mortgagor has a right of redemption, that is, the right
to pay the mortgage and clear the legal title ... but if
the mortgage was recorded, the mortgagor is entitled to a
satisfaction of the mortgage..."
Blacks Law Dictionary defines mortgage as cited below:
"1. A conveyance of title to property that is given as
security for the payment of a debt or the performance of a
duty and that will become void upon payment or performance
according the stipulated terms.
2. A lien against property that is granted to secure an
obligation (such a debt) and that is extinguished upon
payment or performance according to stipulated terms."
Plaintiff-Respondent's intention appears to deceive
Defendants-Appellants to make it appear that they intended to
pay off and satisfy the original $162,000 1995 loan and
mortgage, which they did, as their own internal payoff letter
that was presented at closing shows (A - 176).
Plaintiff-Respondent fully presented to Defendants-
Appellants in their documents, which were noted above as the
certificate of payoff (A - 174), and that they would be filing
the satisfaction of mortgage (A - 175).
Plaintiff-Respondent however, never filed their own
satisfaction as they notified Defendants-Appellants and instead
foreclosed upon it. Defendants-Appellants cite the following
law statute from RPAPL Section 1921 which states:
"1. After payment of authorized principal, interest
and any other amounts due thereunder or otherwise owed
by law has actually been made, ... a mortgage of real
property situate in this state, unless otherwise
requested in writing by the mortgagor or the assignee
of such mortgage, must execute and acknowledge before
a proper officer, in like manner as to entitle a
conveyance to be recorded, a satisfaction of mortgage,
and thereupon within thirty days arrange to have the
satisfaction of mortgage: (a) presented for recording
to the recording officer of the county where the mortgage
is recorded, ... Failure by a mortgagee to present a
certificate of discharge for recording shall result in
the mortgagee being liable to the mortgagor in the amount
of five hundred dollars if he or she fails to present
such certificate within thirty days, shall result in the
mortgagee being liable to the mortgagor in the amount of
one thousand dollars if he or she fails to present a
certificate of discharge for recording within sixty days
or shall result in the mortgagee being liable to the
mortgagor in the amount of one thousand five hundred
dollars if he or she fails to present a certificate of
discharge for recording within ninety days."
"4. In the case of a mortgage secured by property improved
by a one-to-six family, owner occupied, residential structure
... if the mortagee fails within ninety days to deliver
the satisfaction of mortgage ... the mortgagee shall be
liable to such person in the amount of five hundred dollars
or the economic loss to such person, whichever is greater."
Defendants also cited in their Opposition to the Motion for
Judgement For Foreclosure and Sale (A 345) frlom McKinney's
RPAPL Section 1921, Subd. 4. (239 A.D.2d 68):
"Statute requiring mortgagee to provide timely satisfaction
of mortgage was enacted to compensate homeowners for any
economic damage they might suffer from mortgagee's
dilatoriness in issuing satisfaction of mortgage, rather
than to punish the offending mortgagee."
Plaintiff-Respondent is guilty of violating RPAPL 1921 and
owes Defendants-Appellants monetary damages for the failure to
file a timely satisfaction with the County Clerk.
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