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• DEED IN LIEU OF FORECLOSURE
  
  Voluntarily signing over to a lender the property pledged as collateral on a defaulted loan. It is an alternative to a foreclosure action. Its main disadvantage to a lender is that the deed does not wipe out junior liens, as a foreclosure action would. (See junior liens)
  
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