Affidavit: A document that gives a written or printed declaration of statement of facts and is confirmed by an oath or affirmation.

Assignment: A document that transfers a loan or debt (Deed Of Trust and Note) to another, giving them the right to the money collected in payment of the debt.

Assumed Name: A document that files or puts on record a business name of an individual, partnership, or corporation other than their own name. (This is also known as "doing business as" or "dba".)

Cancellation: A document or process that revokes, removes, or erases the debt on real estate indicated by the recording of a Deed Of Trust. There are four methods of cancellation.

Covenants: Covenants are usually drawn to list or give many stipulations as to how the real estate may be used or what may be built or put on the real estate. (This is also known as "restrictive covenant".)

Deed: A document conveying realty. A writing signed by the grantor, whereby title to realty (real estate) is transferred.

Deed Of Gift: A deed executed and delivered without consideration (payment).

Deed Of Release: A conveyance by the trustees after payment or partial payment for divesting themselves of the legal title or title to part of the property to the original owner. It releases part of the land or collateral from the Deed Of Trust so that it may be sold or developed.

Deed Of Trust: An instrument that secures the repayment of a sum of money or the performance of other conditions. This is a three-party document, which includes the borrower, the beneficiary, and the trustee or trustees who hold the legal title or control of the property.

General Partnership Agreement: A voluntary contract between two or among more than two competent persons who share more or less equally in the investment, responsibility, profit, and loss of a business or venture. (Document filed with Register Of Deeds.)

Lease: An agreement between two parties (grantor and grantee) where one contracts with the other to rent, use, or posses, for a specified amount and period of time, real estate or buildings.

Limited Partnership Agreement: A document that declares one or more general partners who conduct or run the business and have one or more special partners who are essentially only investors sharing in the profits. (Document filed with Secretary Of State.)

Modification Deed Of Trust: A document that alters, adds, or cancels some of the terms or stipulations but leaves the general purposes or effect of the document intact.

Notice Of Foreclosure: A document recorded to notify the public of the foreclosure proceedings where property is being repossessed by the lender, usually for non-payment or non-performance of the conditions of the Note and Deed Of Trust.

Partnership Agreement: A voluntary contract between two or among more than two competent persons to place their money, effects, labor, and skills in business with the understanding that there will be a sharing of the profits and losses between/among them.

Power Of Attorney: An instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or in one's behalf in general or in specific situations.

Quit Claim Deed: A deed that, by way of release, conveys any title, interest, or claim that the grantor may have in a premise but does not contain a warranty or guarantee that such title is valid.

Revocation Of Power Of Attorney: A document that removes or takes away the authority of a Power Of Attorney.

Right Of Way: The legal right of passage across another's property.

Subordination Agreement: To place in lower order, class, or rank. An agreement for a document to be placed in order behind or lower than a subsequently recorded document. Example: Agreement for a first lien Deed Of Trust to be put behind or follow the second lien Deed Of Trust.

Substitute Of Trustee: A document through which the beneficiary, owner, or holder of the Note replaces or appoints a new trustee on a Deed Of Trust.

Warranty Deed: A deed in which the grantor binds himself and his heirs to warrant or defend to the grantee and his heirs the title conveyed against the claims of all persons. He warrants or guarantees the title to the grantee.