Title 12Banks and BankingRelease 119-73

§3765 Effect of sale

Title 12 › Chapter CHAPTER 38A— - SINGLE FAMILY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE › § 3765

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

If a foreclosure sale follows the chapter’s rules and a good‑faith buyer buys the property, the sale prevents certain people from making claims on it. That includes people who were mailed the required default and sale notice (and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors, or assignees); anyone with a lower-priority interest who actually knew about the sale; anyone whose claim was not properly recorded before the sale notice was first published (and their executors, administrators, or assignees); and anyone who got a statutory lien after the mortgage was recorded that attaches to the title of those listed people.

Full Legal Text

Title 12, §3765

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A sale, made and conducted as prescribed in this chapter to a bona fide purchaser, shall bar all claims upon, or with respect to, the property sold, for each of the following persons:
(1)Any person to whom the notice of default and foreclosure sale was mailed as provided in this chapter, and the heir, devisee, executor, administrator, successor, or assignee claiming under any such person.
(2)Any person claiming any interest in the property subordinate to that of the mortgage, if such person had actual knowledge of the foreclosure sale.
(3)Any person claiming any interest in the property, whose assignment, mortgage, or other conveyance was not duly recorded or filed in the proper place for recording or filing, or whose judgment or decree was not duly docketed or filed in the proper place for docketing or filing, before the date on which the notice of the foreclosure sale was first served by publication, as required by section 3758(3) of this title, and the executor, administrator, or assignee of such a person.
(4)Any person claiming an interest in the property under a statutory lien or encumbrance created subsequent to the recording or filing of the mortgage being foreclosed, and attaching to the title or interest of any person designated in any of the foregoing paragraphs.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section is based on section 816 of title VIII of S. 2281, One Hundred Third Congress, as reported July 13, 1994, which was enacted into law by Pub. L. 103–327.

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Citation

12 U.S.C. § 3765

Title 12Banks and Banking

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73