LAW NOTES : Malaysia Land Law - Summary Notes for Land Law : Mortgage
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MORTGAGE
ü (Law
French for “dead pledge (sumpah mati)”)
ü Common
law concept, doesn’t stated under NLC.
ü Def.
: Mortgage is a method by which individuals take a loan by putting their title
as security of the loan.
ü Concept
:
1.
Mortgagor (the borrower/peminjam)
will uses mortgage to pledge his real property to the lender (mortgagee/pemberi
pinjam) as security against the debt.
2.
To mortgage, the mortgagor had to “TRANSFER THE TITLE (OWNERSHIP)” to the mortgagee.
3.
Mortgagor’s right / remedy
Ø “Equity Of
Redemption”
Ø Sec.206(3)
of NLC
for
mortgage done via contract.
4.
Mortgagee’s right / remedy
Ø Sale of the land
to
cover the loan given.
5.
Usually mortgage is used to buy any property
without paying the value upfront (wang pendahulu / duit muka). So, here the
party will mortgage their property to secure the remaining value of the
property that they have agreed to buy.
6.
Eg : Ali agreed to buy a house from
Jojo for RM20k. So he mortgage his land to Jojo to secure the price of the
house that he had yet to pay.
ü CASE :
§ CHUAH
ENG KONG
v F
: The borrower in this case had entered
into the loan agreement for RM60k. He then had transfer all the title, right
and interest to the lender as a symbol of security for the loan. Later he
defaulted in payment (expiry date), and the lender asked him to vacate the
land. Before the bankruptcy declared, the borrower said he can paid for the
loan.
v FC
: Borrower entitle with the “equity of
redemption”, which give him second chance to redeem the land (pay the
loan) after the expiry date. Although we have NLC, but still the existence
of equitable mortgage is accepted as it not contradicting with the Code.
DONE BY ;
AMERA MOHD YUSOF
FACULTY OF LAW, UM
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