Mortgage insurance’ means insurance against financial loss by reason of:

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Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 731.178

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

(1) Nonpayment of principal, interest and other sums agreed to be paid under the terms of an obligation secured by a mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument constituting a lien or charge on real or personal property; or

(2) Nonpayment of rent and other sums agreed to be paid under the terms of a written lease for the possession, use or occupancy of real property, such insurance also being referred to in the Insurance Code as ‘lease insurance.’ [1967 c.359 § 39; 1969 c.692 § 1]