Lien Extinguishment

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• Glenn v. Leland
  129 Fla. 429· Fla.· 1937-10-14 ·cited 30×
  A property owner who purchased a tax sale certificate from the state after the repeal of Chapter 14,572 sought to foreclose the tax lien and recover attorney's fees and a clerk's search fee. The Florida Supreme Court held that while the foreclosure right was valid, attorney's fee
• Murray v. Newsom
  111 Fla. 193· Fla.· 1933-06-27 ·cited 27×
  The Florida Supreme Court affirmed a foreclosure decree favoring the liquidator of Citizens Bank & Trust Company against J. H. Murray's claim that an earlier mortgage lien to Isaac Hanan (assigned to Murray) should inure to the benefit of the Greys when they reacquired title afte
• Marylin S. Baron v. Aiello
  319 So. 2d 198· Fla. 3d DCA· 1975-09-09 ·cited 10×
  This case concerns a dispute over title and possession of real property between a foreclosure sale purchaser and an intervening judgment creditor, where the trial court ultimately found the foreclosure sale purchaser to be the fee simple holder and entitled to possession.
• The Quaker Oats Co. v. McKIBBEN
  230 F.2d 652· 9th Cir.· 1956-03-10 ·cited 6×
  A mortgagee who, by implied agreement and course of conduct, permits mortgagors to sell mortgaged property and accept checks payable jointly to the mortgagor and mortgagee, waives its lien and assumes the risks of a general creditor, thereby losing the right to sue subsequent pur
• Gen. Elec. Cap. Corp. v. Sohn
  566 So. 2d 841· Fla. 1st DCA· 1990-08-24 ·cited 5×
  General Electric Capital Corporation appealed a trial court judgment declaring Gerald Sohn the owner in fee simple of a mobile home and extinguishing GE Capital's security interest via a tax deed. The court affirmed, holding that a mobile home permanently affixed to land and taxe
• In re Tillman Produce Co., Inc. v. Paul G. LAW
  538 F.2d 763· 7th Cir.· 1976-07-30 ·cited 4×
  A judgment lien is not extinguished by a bankruptcy discharge alone; a satisfaction order must be entered as required by statute.
• Trs. of Internal Improvement Fund of Fla. v. Sw. Tampa Storm Sewer Drainage Dist.
  142 F.2d 637· 5th Cir.· 1944-05-08 ·cited 4×
  The court held that the award for condemned land must satisfy the Drainage District's tax liens, as the State's tax liens merged into its title acquired under the Murphy Act.
• Bd. of Cnty. Comm'rs of Ellis Cnty. v. City of Shattuck
  140 F.2d 67· 10th Cir.· 1944-01-08 ·cited 4×
  A tax resale extinguishes all prior liens, including special assessment liens, even if delinquent installments were merely endorsed on the tax sale record. The bondholders' rights are preserved in the proceeds of the resale.
• NLG, LLC v. Hazan
  151 So. 3d 455· Fla. 3d DCA· 2014-09-03 ·cited 2×
  A prior unsatisfied judgment on a promissory note secured by a mortgage does not preclude foreclosure of the mortgage, and a quiet title order vacating a sheriff's deed does not extinguish the mortgage lien.
• United States v. Vahlco Corp.
  895 F.2d 1070· 5th Cir.· 1990-03-09 ·cited 2×
  The court held that Margarita's foreclosure extinguished the SBA's second lien, and Lorelei, as Margarita's transferee, obtained good title that was not divested by the Marshal's sale, thus reversing the grant of summary judgment to Guadalupe County.
• Dickinson v. Brown-Crummer INV. Co.
  137 F.2d 615· 10th Cir.· 1943-08-06 ·cited 2×
  A resale tax deed extinguishes the lien of special assessments, but a county's appropriation of property for public use, with improvements, limits bondholders' recovery to the property's value before improvements.