Legal Opinion

Limor v. Fleet Mortgage Group

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided February 7, 2000No. 398-04816-KL3-7)PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, Jr., Justice.

I

Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1 this Court accepted certification of the following question from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Tennessee:

Whether the omission of the official notary seal in the acknowledgment on a Tennessee deed of trust as required by Tennessee Code Annotated § 66-22-110, renders the instrument “null and void as to ... subsequent creditors ... or bona fide purchasers ... without notice” as provided in Tennessee Code Annotated § 66-26-103.

After careful consideration, we…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Hawks v. City of WestmorelandTennessee Supreme Court · 1997
  2. Figuers v. FlyTennessee Supreme Court · 1916
  3. Henry v. WhiteTennessee Supreme Court · 1952
  4. McAllester v. Aldridge (In Re Anderson)District Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1983
  5. Moore v. ColeTennessee Supreme Court · 1956

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3Cited by21 opinions

  1. In Re Richard Glenn Biggs and Kathy Jean Biggs, A/K/A Kathy Jean Melton, Debtors. Jeanne Burton Gregory, Trustee v. Ocwen Federal BankCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2004
  2. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. v. Carlton J. DittoTennessee Supreme Court · 2015
  3. In Re AkinsTennessee Supreme Court · 2002
  4. Regions Bank v. Bric Constructors, LLC, f/k/a Bric Contractors, LLC, and Patricia McIntoshCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 2011
  5. In Re CrimTennessee Supreme Court · 2002

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