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18 GCA § 36120

Duty of Mortgagee on Satisfaction

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 18 — Business Structure and Function
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When any mortgage has been satisfied, the mortgagee or his assignee must immediately, on the demand of the mortgagor, execute, acknowledge, and deliver to him a certificate of the discharge thereof, so as to entitle it to be recorded, or he must enter satisfaction, or cause satisfaction of such mortgage to be entered of record; and any mortgagee or assignee of such mortgage who refuses to execute, acknowledge, and deliver to the mortgagor the certificate of discharge or to enter satisfaction, or cause satisfaction of the mortgage to be entered, as provided in this Chapter, is liable to the mortgagor, or his grantee or heirs, for all damages which he or they may sustain by reason of such refusal, and shall also forfeit to him or them the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00).

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