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EXCLUSIONS FROM COVERAGE <br />CONDITIONS AND STIPULATIONS <br />The following matters are expressly excluded from the <br />coverage of this policy and the Company will not pay loss or damage, <br />costs, attorneys' fees or expenses which arise by reason of: <br />1. (a) Any law, ordinance or governmental regulation <br />(including but not limited to building or zoning laws, ordinances, or <br />regulations) restricting, regulating, prohibiting or relating to (i) the <br />occupancy, use, or enjoyment of the land; (ii) the character, dimensions <br />or location of any improvement now or hereafter erected on the land; <br />(iii) a separation in ownership or a change in the dimensions or area of <br />the land or any parcel of which the land is or was a part; or (iv) <br />environmental protection, or the effect of any violation of these laws, <br />ordinances or governmental regulations, except to the extent that a <br />notice of the enforcement thereof or a notice of a defect, lien or <br />encumbrance resulting from a violation or alleged violation affecting <br />the land has been recorded in the public records at Date of Policy. <br />(b) Any governmental police power not excluded by (a) <br />above, except to the extent that a notice of the exercise thereof or a <br />notice of a defect, lien or encumbrance resulting from a violation or <br />alleged violation affecting the land has been recorded in the public <br />records at Date of Policy. <br />2. Rights of eminent domain unless notice of the exercise <br />thereof has been recorded in the public records at Date of Policy, but <br />not excluding from coverage any taking which has occurred prior to <br />Date of Policy which would be binding on the rights of a purchaser for <br />value without knowledge. <br />3. Defects, liens, encumbrances, adverse claims or other <br />matters: <br />(a) whether or not recorded in the public records at Date of <br />Policy, but created, suffered, assumed or agreed to by the insured <br />claimant; <br />(b) not known to the Company, not recorded in the public <br />records at Date of Policy, but known to the insured claimant and not <br />disclosed in writing to the Company by the insured claimant prior to <br />the date the insured claimant became an insured under this policy; <br />(c) resulting in no loss or damage to the insured claimant; <br />(d) attaching or created subsequent to Date of Policy; or <br />(e) resulting in loss or damage which would not have been <br />sustained if the insured claimant had paid value for the insured <br />mortgage or for the estate or interest insured by this policy. <br />4. Unenforceability of the lien of the insured mortgage <br />because of the inability or failure of the insured at Date of Policy, or <br />the inability or failure of any subsequent owner of the indebtedness, to <br />comply with the applicable doing business laws of the state in which <br />the land is situated. <br />5. Invalidity or unenforceability of the lien of the insured <br />mortgage, or claim thereof, which arises out of the transaction <br />evidenced by the insured mortgage and is based upon usury or any <br />consumer credit protection or truth in lending law. <br />6. Any claim, which arises out of the transaction vesting in <br />the insured the estate or interest insured by this policy or the <br />transaction creating the interest of the insured lender, by reason of the <br />operation of federal bankruptcy, state insolvency or similar creditors' <br />rights laws. <br />1. Definition of Terms. <br />The following terms when used in this policy mean: <br />(a) "insured": the insured named in Schedule A, and, <br />subject to any rights or defenses the Company would have had against <br />the named insured, those who succeed to the interest of the named <br />insured by operation of law as distinguished from purchase including, <br />but not limited to, heirs, distributees, devisees, survivors, personal <br />representatives, next of kin, or corporate or fiduciary successors. The <br />term "insured" also includes (i► the owner of the indebtedness secured <br />by the insured mortgage and each successor in ownership of the <br />indebtedness except a successor who is an obligor under the <br />provisions of Section 12(c) of these Conditions and Stipulations <br />(reserving, however, all rights and defenses as to any successor that <br />the Company would have had against any predecessor insured, unless <br />the successor acquired the indebtedness as a purchaser for value <br />without knowledge of the asserted defect, lien, encumbrance, adverse <br />claim or other matter insured against by this policy as affecting title to <br />the estate or interest in the land); (ii) any governmental agency or <br />governmental instrumentality which is an insurer or guarantor under <br />an insurance contract or guaranty insuring or guaranteeing the <br />indebtedness secured by the insured mortgage, or any part thereof, <br />whether named as an insured herein or not; (iii) the parties designated <br />in Section 2(a) of these Conditions and Stipulations. <br />(b) "insured claimant": an insured claiming loss or damage. <br />(c) "insured lender": the owner of an insured mortgage. <br />(d) "insured mortgage": a mortgage shown in Schedule B, <br />the owner of which is named as an insured in Schedule A. <br />(e) "knowledge" or "known": actual knowledge, not <br />constructive knowledge or notice which may be imputed to an insured <br />by reason of the public records as defined in this policy or any other <br />records which impart constructive notice of matters affecting the land. <br />(f) "land": the land described or referred to in Schedule <br />[A][C], and improvements affixed thereto which by law constitute real <br />property. The term "land" does not include any property beyond the <br />lines of the area described or referred to in Schedule [A][C], nor any <br />right, title, interest, estate or easement in abutting streets, roads, <br />avenues, alleys, lanes, ways or waterways, but nothing herein shall <br />modify or limit the extent to which a right of access to and from the <br />land is insured by this policy. <br />(g) "mortgage": mortgage, deed of trust, trust deed, or <br />other security instrument. <br />(h) "public records": records established under state <br />statutes at Date of Policy for the purpose of imparting constructive <br />notice of matters relating to real property to purchasers for value and <br />without knowledge. <br />(i) "unmarketability of the title": an alleged or apparent <br />matter affecting the title to the land, not excluded or excepted from <br />coverage, which would entitle a purchaser of the estate or interest <br />described in Schedule A or the insured mortgage to be released from <br />the obligation to purchase by virtue of a contractual condition requiring <br />the delivery of marketable title. <br />2. Continuation of Insurance. <br />(a) After Acquisition of Title by Insured Lender. If this policy <br />insures the owner of the indebtedness secured by the insured <br />mortgage, the coverage of this policy shall continue in force as of Date <br />of Policy in favor of (i) such insured lender who acquires all or any part <br />of the estate or interest in the land by foreclosure, trustee's sale, <br />conveyance in lieu of foreclosure, or other legal manner which <br />discharges the lien of the insured mortgage; (ii) a transferee of the <br />(Continued on insert front.) <br />