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15 GCA § 2371

Borrowing Money and Mortgaging Estate Property:

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 15 — Estates and Probate
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Effectiveness of Encumbrance; Jurisdiction; Effect of Error or Irregularities; Deficiencies. Every mortgage, pledge or other lien made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 2363 through 2369, inclusive, of this Title shall be effectual to mortgage, pledge or subject to such other lien all right, title, interest and estate which the decedent had in the property described therein at the time of the decedent's death or prior thereto, and any right, title or interest in said property acquired by the estate of such decedent COL120106 CH. 23 PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S DEALINGS WITH ESTATE PROPERTY by operation of law or otherwise, since the time of the decedent's death. Jurisdiction of the Superior Court to administer the estate of such decedent shall be effectual to vest the Superior Court with jurisdiction to make the order for the note or notes, and mortgage, pledge or other lien, and such jurisdiction shall conclusively inure to the benefit of the mortgagee named in the mortgage, the pledgee, or the holder of other lien, his heirs and assigns. No omission, error or irregularity in the proceedings shall impair or invalidate the same or the note or notes, mortgage, pledge or other lien given in pursuance thereof, and the mortgagee, pledgee or holder of other lien, his heirs and assigns, shall have and possess the same rights and remedies on the notes or notes and mortgage, pledge or other lien as if it had been made by the decedent prior to the decedent's death, except that upon any foreclosure, or sale under the pledge or other lien, if the proceeds of the sale of the encumbered property are insufficient to pay the note or notes, the mortgage, pledge or other lien, and the costs or expenses of sale, no judgment or claim for any deficiency, shall be had or allowed, except in cases where the note or notes, mortgage, pledge or other lien were given to pay, reduce, extend or renew a mortgage, pledge or other lien subsisting at the time of the decedent's death and the indebtedness secured thereby was an allowed and approved claim against the estate, in which case the part of the indebtedness remaining unsatisfied must be classed and paid with other allowed claims against the estate.

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.