SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE MORENO VALLEY COURT
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HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE ELLINGTON TRUST SERIES 2007-1, Plaintiff, v. AMRIT SINGH AND DOES 1 THROUGH X, INCLUSIVE, Defendant,
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Defendant, as ordered by this Court on August 2, 2011, in answer to the complaint on file, states as follows:
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This answering Defendant does not have any information and/or belief to enable him to admit the allegations contained in Paragraph 3 of the complaint on file and based on the lack of information and belief, Defendant does hereby generally deny the allegations of paragraph 3 of the complaint on file.
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This answering Defendant does not have any information and/or belief to enable him to admit the allegations contained in Paragraph 4 of the complaint on file and based on the lack of information and belief, Defendant does hereby generally deny the allegations of
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paragraph 4 of the complaint on file. This answering Defendant does not have any information and/or belief to enable him to admit or deny the allegations contained in paragraph 5 of the complaint on file and based on the lack of information and belief Defendant does hereby generally deny the allegations of paragraph 5 of the complaint on file. This answering Defendant does not have any information and/or belief to enable him to admit or deny the allegations contained in paragraph 6 of the complaint on file and based on the lack of information and belief Defendant does hereby generally deny the allegations of paragraph 6 of the complaint on file. This answering Defendant does not have any information and/or belief to enable him to admit or deny the allegations contained in paragraph 7 of the complaint on file and based on the lack of information and belief Defendant does hereby generally deny the allegations of paragraph 7 of the complaint on file. This answering Defendant does not have any information and/or belief to enable him to admit or deny the allegations contained in paragraph 8 of the complaint on file and based on the lack of information and belief Defendant does hereby generally deny the allegations of paragraph 8 of the complaint on file. This answering Defendant does not have any information and/or belief to enable him to admit or deny the allegations contained in paragraph 9 of the complaint on file and based on the lack of information and belief Defendant does hereby generally deny the allegations of paragraph 9 of the complaint on file. This answering Defendant generally denies and specifically denies the allegations contained in paragraph 10 of the complaint on file.
FIRST AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE The complaint and each of its causes of action fail to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause or causes of action because: 1) lack of proper notice in the Notice of Default;
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2) plaintiff had no authority to sell the property; 3) lack of proper verification of the complaint; 4) lack of standing; 5) misjoinder of parties; 6) Rescission under TILA; 7) False/fraudulent Good Faith Estimate under TILA; 8) Lack of valid trustee sale.
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SIXTEENTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE DOCTRINE OF MODIFIED CONTRACT PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTIONS 1697 & 1698 AND CALIFORNIA COMMERCIAL CODE SECTIONS 2209 & 3117. SEVENTEENTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE FRAUD.
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NINTEENTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE RELEASE, INCLUDING CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1541.
TWENTY-FOURTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE CONTRADICTORY, ILLUSORY, AMBIGUOUS AND UNINTELLIGIBLE CONTRACT PROVISIONS AS TO THE ACCELERATION PROVISIONS ALLEGED TO BE IN THE DEED OF TRUST AS COMPARED TO THE NOTE.
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Prior to Plaintiff obtaining the note, it was sold to multiple parties and Plaintiff cant specify the actual parties to whom that note was sold. The note was lost or destroyed by those other parties and was not returned to Plaintiff or its predecessors in interest. No Plaintiff has standing to foreclose because the note is a negotiable instrument and only the bearer/holder of the note is the entity with the right to enforce it. The mortgage and Deed of Trust were consideration for the note. Without the note, there is no consideration for the mortgage and Deed of Trust, and those instruments failed and the Plaintiff(s) had no right to foreclose on a property to which there was no note, no mortgage and no deed of trust. The Plaintiff(s) had no right to enforce the note, mortgage or deed of trust or to foreclose upon this property.
TWENTY-SEVENTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE DOCTRINE OF DESTRUCTION OR CANCELATION OF A WRITTEN CONTRACT AS PROVIDED IN CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTIONS 1699 AND 1700.
TWENTY-EIGHTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE ABANDONED PROPERTY THE MORTGAGE AND NOTE WERE BIFURCATED THE PROPERTY ESCHEATS TO THE STATE.
TWENTY-NINTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE PREDECESSOR IN INTERESTS BREACH OF CONTRACT AS A NONNEGOTIABLE NOTE, THE ORIGINAL DEFENSES INURE TO THE BENEFIT OF THE DEFENDANT.
LACK OF CONSIDERATION.
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