-Mort-gage. From Old French, literally ‘Dead-Pledge’, from mort (from Latin mortuus ‘dead’) + gage ‘pledge’. Also called 'mortuum vadium'.
The 'Deed of Trust' / 'Mort-gage' (dead-pledge) is a 'feoffment' (bottomry) instrument used to coerce you (the alleged 'Borrower') to abandon your 'right of claim' to your (real) estate, and convey it to a 'Feoffor' (the alleged 'Lender' / Trustee named on the Mort-gage) for the purpose of sharecropping.
The 'Deed' that you signed at the "settlement-closing meeting" did not and does not convey any 'title of ownership' to you at all. Therefore, it is 'Color of Title' and NOT title. The 'Deed' says in the beginning paragraph, "the property was conveyed, in fee simple". A "fee" is for feudal tenants / serfs / subjects under feudalism within purview , and does not constitute ownership at all!
Please take your time to review the following terms below which are defined in the Black's Law Dictionary, 4th and 5th Editions:
-Feoffment. The gift of any corporeal hereditament [anything that can be inherited] to another, operating by transmutation of possession, and requiring, as essential to its completion, that the seisin be passed, which might be accomplished either by investiture or by livery of seisin. A gift of a freehold interest in land accompanied by livery of seisin. The essential part is the livery of seisin.
Also the deed or conveyance by which such corporeal hereditament is passed. A feoffment originally meant the grant of a feud or fee; that is, a barony or knight's fee, for which certain services were due from the feoffee to the feoffor.
-Feoffor. The person making a feoffment, or enfeoffing another in fee.
- Fee (estates). Ordinarily, word "fee" or "fee simple" is applied to an estate in land, but term is applicable to any kind of hereditament, corporeal or incorporeal, and is all the property in thing referred to or largest estate therein which person may have.
A freehold estate in lands, held of a superior lord, as a reward for services, and on condition of rendering some service in return for it.
The true meaning of the word "fee" is the same as that of "feud" or "fief," and in its original sense it is taken in contradistinction to "allodium," which latter is defined as a man's own land, which he possesses merely in his own right, without owing any rent or service to any superior.
-Allodial. Free; not holden of any lord or superior; owned without obligation of vassalage or fealty; the opposite of feudal.
-Allodium. Land held absolutely in one's own right, and not of any lord or superior; land not subject to feudal duties or burdens. An estate held by absolute ownership, without recognizing any superior to whom any duty is due on account thereof.
