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Cornell Law School

December 6, 2012

New York Supreme Court Holds that MERS Does Not Have Standing to Foreclose if it Does Not Own Both Note and Mortgage

By Gloria Liu

In LaSalle Bank Nat’l Ass’n v. Lamy, 824 N.Y.S.2d 769 (NY S. Ct., 2006), the court held that MERS did not have standing to foreclose because it did not own the note and mortgage. Court reasoned that “well established case authorities have held that where a mortgage debt is represented by a bond or other instrument, an assignment of the mortgage without a concomitant assignment of the note or bond for which said mortgage was given as security is a nullity.”

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