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Chapter 61.12 RCW

FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY LIENS

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RCW dispositions

Sections

HTMLPDF 61.12.010Encumbrances shall be by deed.
HTMLPDF 61.12.020Mortgage—Form—Contents—Effect.
HTMLPDF 61.12.030Removal of property from mortgaged premises—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 61.12.040Foreclosure—Venue.
HTMLPDF 61.12.050When remedy confined to mortgaged property.
HTMLPDF 61.12.060Judgment—Order of sale—Satisfaction—Upset price.
HTMLPDF 61.12.061Exception as to mortgages held by the United States.
HTMLPDF 61.12.070Decree to direct deficiency—Waiver in complaint.
HTMLPDF 61.12.080Deficiency judgment—How enforced.
HTMLPDF 61.12.090Execution on decree—Procedure.
HTMLPDF 61.12.093Abandoned improved real estate—Purchaser takes free of redemption rights.
HTMLPDF 61.12.094Abandoned improved real estate—Deficiency judgment precluded—Complaint, requisites, service.
HTMLPDF 61.12.095Abandoned improved real estate—Not applicable to property used primarily for agricultural purposes.
HTMLPDF 61.12.100Levy for deficiency under same execution.
HTMLPDF 61.12.110Notice of sale on deficiency.
HTMLPDF 61.12.120Concurrent actions prohibited.
HTMLPDF 61.12.130Payment of sums due—Stay of proceedings.
HTMLPDF 61.12.140Sale in parcels to pay installments due.
HTMLPDF 61.12.150Sale of whole property—Disposition of proceeds.
HTMLPDF 61.12.170Recording.
HTMLPDF 61.12.180Foreclosure of reverse residential mortgage—Notice.
HTMLPDF 61.12.190Mortgages, deeds of trust.
HTMLPDF 61.12.200Consumer protection act—Unfair or deceptive acts or practices—Penalties—Notice.

Notes:

Community realty, encumbering: RCW 26.16.040.
Corporate seals, effect of absence from instrument: RCW 64.04.105.
Foreclosure by organizations not admitted to transact business in state: Chapter 23B.18 RCW.
Mortgagee cannot maintain action for possession: RCW 7.28.230.
Mortgaging of decedents' estates: Chapter 11.56 RCW.
Notice and sale summary foreclosure of personal property liens: Chapter 60.10 RCW.
Partition, sales on credit: RCW 7.52.290, 7.52.420.
Possession of real estate to collect mortgaged rents and profits: RCW 7.28.230.
Sales under execution and redemption: Chapter 6.21 RCW.