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Constitutional Law -Validity Of State Mortgage Moratorium Statutes - Effect Of Emergency
Constitutional Law -Validity Of State Mortgage Moratorium Statutes - Effect Of Emergency
Michigan Law Review
A Maryland statute provided that mortgagees holding less than a 25 per cent interest in a mortgage could not have recourse to summary remedies for sale of mortgaged property during an emergency period declared to exist until June 1, 1935. Plaintiff, the holder of such an interest in a mortgage providing for summary proceedings for sale upon default, had the right to foreclose in this manner, mortgagor having defaulted, if the statute did not bar his action. Held, the remedies denied were so interwoven with the rights contracted for that the abolition of such remedies impaired the right, and …