White v. Macarelli’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “If a foreclosure sale is fairly conducted and there is no defect in the proceedings, the right of the intervener to redeem is gone when the contract of sale was made with the purchaser at auction. Brown v. Wentworth, 181 Mass. 49 , 62 N.E. 984 . See G.L. c. 244 § 22. Beal v. Attleborough[Attleboro] Savings Bank, 248 Mass. 342 , 142 N.E. 789 , is not in conflict, and is not an authority for the contention that the right to redeem continues until the conveyance is made.... Until the conveyance is made a mortgagor has an interest in the property and has rights against the mortgagee and the relation between them is not entirely at an end when the auction sale takes place.... Until the contract of sale is completed the mortgagor has an equity in the property, but it is not strictly accurate to designate this interest as an equity of redemption. The mortgagor, after a valid auction sale under a power of sale in the mortgage deed, has no right to redeem, although he has an ownership of the equity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Crichlow