Legal Opinion
Associates Financial Services of America, Inc. v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 27, 1997No. 95-PR-69PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Associate Judge:
In this certified appeal 1 we are presented with the question whether D.C.Code § 20-1104(c), before it was amended in 1995 (“old § 20-1104(c)”), protects a lender from the claims against an estate, where, in reliance on a title search of the real estate records and without actual or constructive notice of a competing claim, the lender takes an interest in real property from a distributee of the estate, in exchange for a deed of trust which is duly filed with the Recorder of Deeds. We hold that the old § 20-1104(c) protects such lenders and that the trial judge erred in…
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- Mary Osin v. Robert H. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957
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