FIRST HORIZON ASSET SECURITIES INC.
Depositor
FIRST HORIZON HOME LOAN CORPORATION
Master Servicer
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
Trustee
-----------------------------------------------------
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
Dated as of June 1, 2005
-----------------------------------------------------
FIRST HORIZON ALTERNATIVE MORTGAGE SECURITIES TRUST 2005-FA5
MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-FA5
<PAGE>
iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Page
<S>
<C>
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS.........................................................................................
6
ARTICLE II CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS;
REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES......................................
39
SECTION 2.1 Conveyance of
Mortgage
Loans...................................................................
39
SECTION 2.2 Acceptance by
Trustee of the Mortgage
Loans....................................................
43
SECTION 2.3 Representations
and Warranties of the Master Servicer; Covenants of the
Seller................
45
SECTION 2.4 Representations
and Warranties of the Depositor as to the Mortgage
Loans.......................
47
SECTION 2.5 Delivery of
Opinion of Counsel in Connection with
Substitutions................................
47
SECTION 2.6 Execution and
Delivery of
Certificates.........................................................
48
SECTION 2.7 REMIC
Matters..................................................................................
48
SECTION 2.8 Covenants of the
Master
Servicer...............................................................
54
ARTICLE III ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF
MORTGAGE LOANS....................................................
54
SECTION 3.1 Master Servicer
to Service Mortgage
Loans......................................................
54
SECTION 3.2 Subservicing;
Enforcement of the Obligations of
Servicers......................................
55
SECTION 3.3 Rights of the
Depositor and the Trustee in Respect of the Master
Servicer......................
56
SECTION 3.4 Trustee to Act
as Master
Servicer..............................................................
56
SECTION 3.5 Collection of
Mortgage Loan Payments; Certificate Account; Distribution
Account................
57
SECTION 3.6 Collection of
Taxes, Assessments and Similar Items; Escrow
Accounts............................
60
SECTION 3.7 Access to
Certain Documentation and Information Regarding the Mortgage
Loans...................
61
SECTION 3.8 Permitted
Withdrawals from the Certificate Account and Distribution
Account....................
61
SECTION 3.9 Maintenance of
Hazard Insurance; Maintenance of Primary Insurance
Policies.....................
63
SECTION 3.10 Enforcement of
Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption
Agreements.....................................
65
SECTION 3.11 Realization
Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans; Repurchase of Certain Mortgage
Loans...............
66
SECTION 3.12 Trustee to
Cooperate; Release of Mortgage
Files...............................................
68
SECTION 3.13 Documents
Records and Funds in Possession of Master Servicer to be Held for
the Trustee.......
69
SECTION 3.14 Master
Servicing
Compensation.................................................................
70
SECTION 3.15 Access to
Certain
Documentation...............................................................
70
SECTION 3.16 Annual
Statement as to
Compliance.............................................................
70
SECTION 3.17 Annual
Independent Public Accountants' Servicing Statement; Financial
Statements..............
71
SECTION 3.18 Errors and
Omissions Insurance; Fidelity
Bonds................................................
71
ARTICLE IV DISTRIBUTIONS AND ADVANCES BY
THE MASTER
SERVICER..................................................
72
SECTION 4.1
Advances.......................................................................................
72
SECTION 4.2 Priorities of
Distribution.....................................................................
72
SECTION 4.3 Method of
Distribution.........................................................................
78
SECTION 4.4 Allocation of
Losses...........................................................................
79
SECTION 4.5
Reserved.......................................................................................
82
SECTION 4.6 Monthly
Statements to
Certificateholders.......................................................
82
SECTION 4.7
[RESERVED].....................................................................................
84
SECTION 4.8
[RESERVED].....................................................................................
84
SECTION 4.9 Determination of
Pass-Through Rates for LIBOR
Certificates.....................................
84
</TABLE>
i
<PAGE>
<TABLE>
<S>
<C>
ARTICLE V THE
CERTIFICATES....................................................................................
86
SECTION 5.1 The
Certificates...............................................................................
86
SECTION 5.2 Certificate
Register; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates....................
86
SECTION 5.3 Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Certificates..............................................
92
SECTION 5.4 Persons Deemed
Owners..........................................................................
92
SECTION 5.5 Access to List
of Certificateholders' Names and
Addresses......................................
92
SECTION 5.6 Maintenance of
Office or
Agency................................................................
93
ARTICLE VI THE DEPOSITOR AND THE MASTER
SERVICER..............................................................
93
SECTION 6.1 Respective
Liabilities of the Depositor and the Master
Servicer................................
93
SECTION 6.2 Merger or
Consolidation of the Depositor or the Master
Servicer................................
93
SECTION 6.3 Limitation on
Liability of the Depositor, the Master Servicer and
Others.......................
93
SECTION 6.4 Limitation on
Resignation of Master
Servicer...................................................
94
ARTICLE VII
DEFAULT...........................................................................................
94
SECTION 7.1 Events of
Default..............................................................................
94
SECTION 7.2 Trustee to Act;
Appointment of
Successor.......................................................
96
SECTION 7.3 Notification to
Certificateholders.............................................................
98
ARTICLE VIII CONCERNING THE
TRUSTEE...........................................................................
98
SECTION 8.1 Duties of
Trustee..............................................................................
98
SECTION 8.2 Certain Matters
Affecting the
Trustee..........................................................
100
SECTION 8.3 Trustee Not
Liable for Certificates or Mortgage
Loans.......................................... 101
SECTION 8.4 Trustee May Own
Certificates...................................................................
102
SECTION 8.5 Trustee's Fees
and
Expenses....................................................................
102
SECTION 8.6 Eligibility
Requirements for
Trustee...........................................................
102
SECTION 8.7 Resignation and
Removal of
Trustee.............................................................
103
SECTION 8.8 Successor
Trustee..............................................................................
103
SECTION 8.9 Merger or
Consolidation of
Trustee.............................................................
104
SECTION 8.10 Appointment of
Co-Trustee or Separate
Trustee.................................................
104
SECTION 8.11 Tax
Matters...................................................................................
106
SECTION 8.12 Periodic
Filings..............................................................................
107
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION........................................................................................
108
SECTION 9.1 Termination upon
Liquidation or Purchase of all Mortgage
Loans................................. 108
SECTION 9.2 Final
Distribution on the
Certificates.........................................................
108
SECTION 9.3 Additional
Termination
Requirements............................................................
109
ARTICLE X
[RESERVED]..........................................................................................
110
</TABLE>
ii
<PAGE>
<TABLE>
<S>
<C>
ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS...........................................................................
110
SECTION 11.1
Amendment.....................................................................................
110
SECTION 11.2 Recordation of
Agreement;
Counterparts........................................................
112
SECTION 11.3 Governing
Law.................................................................................
112
SECTION 11.4 Intention of
Parties..........................................................................
112
SECTION 11.5
Notices.......................................................................................
113
SECTION 11.6 Severability of
Provisions....................................................................
114
SECTION 11.7
Assignment....................................................................................
114
SECTION 11.8 Limitation on
Rights of
Certificateholders....................................................
114
SECTION 11.9 Inspection and
Audit
Rights...................................................................
115
SECTION 11.10 Certificates
Nonassessable and Fully
Paid....................................................
115
SECTION 11.11 Limitations on
Actions; No
Proceedings.......................................................
115
SECTION 11.12 Acknowledgment
of
Seller.....................................................................
116
SCHEDULES
Schedule I:
Mortgage Loan Schedule
S-I-1
Schedule II:
Representations and Warranties of the Master Servicer
S-II-1
Schedule III:
Form of Monthly Master Servicer Report
S-III-1
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A-1:
Form
of Senior Certificate
A-1
Exhibit A-1:
Form of Senior Certificate [Class PO Certificate]
A-1
Exhibit B:
Form of Subordinated Certificate
B-1
Exhibit C:
Form of Residual Certificate
C-1
Exhibit D:
Form of Reverse of Certificates
D-1
Exhibit E:
Form of Initial Certification
E-1
Exhibit F:
Form of Delay Delivery Certification
F-1
Exhibit G:
Form of Subsequent Certification of Custodian
G-1
Exhibit H:
Transfer Affidavit
H-1
Exhibit I:
Form of Transferor Certificate
I-1
Exhibit J:
Form of Investment Letter [Non-Rule 144A]
J-1
Exhibit K:
Form of Rule 144A Letter
K-1
Exhibit L:
Request for Release (for Trustee)
L-1
Exhibit M:
Request for Release (Mortgage Loan)
M-1
</TABLE>
iii
<PAGE>
THIS POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of June 1, 2005,
among
FIRST HORIZON ASSET SECURITIES INC., a
Delaware corporation,
as depositor (the
"Depositor"), FIRST HORIZON HOME LOAN
CORPORATION,
a Kansas corporation, as
master servicer (the "Master Servicer"), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a
banking
corporation organized under the laws of the State of New
York, as trustee (the
"Trustee").
WITNESSETH THAT
In consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the
parties
hereto agree as follows:
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
The Depositor is the owner of the Trust Fund that is hereby
conveyed to
the Trustee in return for the Certificates. The Trust Fund for federal
income
tax purposes will consist of three separate REMICs. The Certificates will
represent the entire beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund. The
Regular Certificates will represent
"regular interests" in the Upper REMIC. The
Class I-A-R Certificates will represent the residual interests in the Lower
REMIC, Middle REMIC and Upper
REMIC, as described in Section 2.7. The
"latest
possible maturity date" for federal income tax purposes of all REMIC
regular
interests created hereby will be the Latest
Possible Maturity Date.
The
following table sets
forth characteristics
of the Certificates,
together with the minimum denominations and
integral multiples in excess thereof
in which such Classes shall be issuable (except that one Certificate of each
Class of Certificates may be issued in a
different amount and, in addition, one
Residual Certificate representing the Tax Matters Person
Certificate
may be
issued in a different amount):
[Remainder of Page Intentionally Left Blank]
1
<PAGE>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Initial Class
Minimum
Integral Multiples
Class Designation
Certificate Balance
Pass-Through Rate
Denominations in Excess
of Minimum
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>
<C>
<C>
<C>
<C>
Class
I-A-1
$ 222,772,000.00
5.000%
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class
I-A-2
$
55,693,000.00
variable(1)
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class
I-A-3
(2)
variable(3)
$
500,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class
I-A-4
$
31,205,000.00
5.500%
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class
I-A-5
$
4,369,000.00
5.500%
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class
I-A-6
$
20,000,000.00
5.500%
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class
I-A-7
$
1,150,000.00
5.500%
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class
I-A-8
$
1,795,000.00
5.500%
$
25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class I-A-PO
$
705,524.82
(4)
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class
I-A-R
$
100.00
5.500%
$
100
N/A
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class II-A-1
$
23,920,000.00
5.000%
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class II-A-PO
$
29,160.33
(4)
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class III-A-1
$
79,108,000.00
5.500%
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class III-A-2
$
4,549,000.00
5.500%
$ 25,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class B-1
$
8,603,000.00
variable(5)
$
100,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class B-2
$ 4,186,000.00
variable(5)
$
100,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class B-3
$
2,325,000.00
variable(5)
$
100,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class B-4
$
1,861,000.00
variable(5)
$
100,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class B-5
$
1,627,000.00
variable(5)
$
100,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class B-6
$
1,163,584.52
variable(5)
$
100,000
$
1,000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</TABLE>
(1) The Pass-Through Rate with respect to any
Distribution
Date for the Class
I-A-2 Certificates is the per annum rate
equal to (a) 3.60% with respect to the
first Distribution Date, and (b)
thereafter, the lesser
of (i) LIBOR plus 0.30%
and (ii) 7.50%, subject to a minimum rate
of 0.30%.
(2) The Class I-A-3 Certificates are Notional Amount Certificates and will
accrue interest during each Interest Accrual Period on a Notional
Amount equal
to the Class Certificate Balance of the Class I-A-2
Certificates.
The initial
Notional Amount of the Class I-A-3
Certificates will be $55,693,000.
(3) The Pass-Through Rate with respect to any
Distribution
Date for the Class
I-A-3 Certificates is the per annum rate
equal to (a) 3.90% with respect to the
first Distribution Date, and (b)
thereafter, the lesser of (i) 7.20% minus LIBOR
and (ii) 7.20%, subject to a minimum rate
of 0.00%.
(4) The Class I-A-PO and Class II-A-PO are
principal only
certificates and will
not accrue interest.
2
<PAGE>
(5) The Pass-Through Rate on each Class of
Subordinated Certificates is variable
and will be equal to the weighted average
of the Designated Mortgage Pool Rates,
weighted on the basis of the Group
Subordinate
Amount for each
Mortgage Pool.
The initial Pass-Through Rate on each Class
of Subordinated Certificates for the
first Interest Accrual Period will be
5.473%.
3
<PAGE>
<TABLE>
<S>
<C>
Accretion Directed Certificates.......
The
Class I-A-1 and Class I-A-2 Certificates.
Accrual Certificates..................
The
Class I-A-5 Certificates.
Accrual Components....................
None.
Book-Entry Certificates...............
All
Classes of Certificates other than the Physical Certificates.
Certificate Group.....................
With
respect to Pool I, the Group I Senior Certificates, with respect
to
Pool II, the Group II Senior Certificates and with respect to Pool
III,
the Group III Senior Certificates. The Subordinated
Certificates
correspond to all of the Mortgage Pools.
COFI Certificates.....................
None.
Component Certificates................
None.
Components............................
None.
Delay Certificates....................
All
interest-bearing Classes of Certificates other than the
Non-Delay
Certificates, if any.
ERISA-Restricted Certificates.........
The
Residual Certificates, Private Certificates and Certificates of
any
Class that no longer satisfy the applicable rating requirement of
the
Underwriters' Exemption.
Floating Rate Certificates............
The
Class I-A-2 Certificates.
Group I Senior Certificates...........
The
Class I-A-1, Class I-A-2, Class I-A-3, Class I-A-4, Class
I-A-5,
Class I-A-6, Class
I-A-7, Class I-A-8, Class I-A-PO and Class I-A-R
Certificates.
Group II Senior Certificates..........
The
Class II-A-1 and Class II-A-PO Certificates.
Group III Senior Certificates.........
The
Class III-A-1 and Class III-A-2 Certificates.
Inverse Floating Rate Certificates....
The
Class I-A-3 Certificates.
LIBOR Certificates....................
The
Class I-A-2 and Class I-A-3 Certificates.
NAS Certificates......................
The
Class I-A-4 and Class I-A-8 Certificates.
Non-Delay Certificates................
The
LIBOR Certificates.
Notional Amount Certificates..........
The
Class I-A-3 Certificates.
Offered Certificates..................
All
Classes of Certificates other than the Class PO Certificates and
the
Private Certificates.
Physical Certificates.................
The
Class PO Certificates, the Residual Certificates and the
Private
Certificates.
Planned Principal Classes.............
None.
Principal Only Certificates...........
The
Class I-A-PO and Class II-A-PO Certificates.
Private Certificates..................
The
Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates.
Rating Agencies.......................
S&P and Moody's; except that, for purposes of the Class B-1,
B-2, Class
B-3, Class B-4 and Class B-5 Certificates, S&P shall be the
sole
Rating Agency.
</TABLE>
4
<PAGE>
<TABLE>
<S>
<C>
Regular Certificates..................
All
Classes of Certificates, other than the Residual Certificates.
Residual Certificates.................
The
Class I-A-R Certificates.
Retail/Lottery Certificates...........
None.
Scheduled Certificates................
None.
Senior Certificates...................
The
Group I Senior Certificates, Group II Senior Certificates and
Group
III Senior Certificates, collectively.
Senior Mezzanine
Certificates..........................
The
Class I-A-7 and Class I-A-8 Certificates.
Senior Support Certificates...........
None.
Subordinated Certificates.............
The
Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class
B-6
Certificates.
Super Senior Certificates.............
The
Class I-A-4 and Class I-A-6 Certificates.
Support Classes.......................
None.
Targeted Principal Classes............
None.
Underwriter...........................
Credit Suisse First Boston LLC.
</TABLE>
With respect
to any of the
foregoing designations as to which the
corresponding reference is "None," all defined terms and provisions herein
relating solely to such designations shall be of no force or effect,
and any
calculations herein incorporating references to such designations shall be
interpreted without reference to such
designations and
amounts. Defined
terms
and provisions herein relating to statistical
rating agencies not designated
above as Rating Agencies shall be of no
force or effect.
5
<PAGE>
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Whenever used in this
Agreement,
the following words and phrases,
unless the context otherwise requires,
shall have the following meanings:
Accretion Directed
Certificates:
As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Accretion Termination Date: For each class of Accrual Certificates,
the
earlier of (x) the Cross-over Date and (y) the Distribution Date on which the
Class Certificate Balances of each Class of
Accretion Directed
Certificates has
been reduced to zero.
Accrual Amount:
For each Distribution Date through the Accretion
Termination Date and the Accrual
Certificates, an amount equal to the sum of (a)
Accrued Certificate Interest in respect of the Accrual Certificates in
accordance with clause (i) of Section
4.2(a), and (b)
amounts allocable to
the
Accrual Certificates in accordance with
clause (ii) of Section 4.2(a), in each
case on such Distribution Date.
Accrual Certificates:
As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Accrued Certificate Interest: For any Class of Certificates
entitled to
distributions of interest for any
Distribution Date, the interest accrued during
the related Interest Accrual Period at the
applicable
Pass-Through Rate on
the
Class Certificate Balance (or Notional
Amount in the case of the Notional Amount
Certificates) of such Class of Certificates immediately prior to such
Distribution Date, less such Class' share of any Net Interest Shortfall,
allocable among the outstanding Classes of Senior Certificates of the related
Certificate Group based on the Accrued Certificate Interest otherwise
distributable thereto, and allocable to the
Subordinated
Certificates based on
interest accrued on their related
Apportioned Principal Balances.
Adjusted Mortgage
Rate: As to each Mortgage Loan, and at any time, the
per annum rate equal to the Mortgage Rate
less the Master Servicing Fee Rate.
Adjusted Net Mortgage
Rate: As to each Mortgage Loan, and at any time,
the per annum rate equal to the Mortgage
Rate less the related Expense Fee Rate.
Advance: The payment
required to be made by
the Master Servicer
with
respect to any Distribution Date pursuant
to Section 4.1, the amount of any such
payment being equal to the aggregate of
payments of principal and interest (net
of the Master Servicing Fee and net of any net
income in the case of
any REO
Property) on the Mortgage Loans that were due on the related
Due Date and not
received as of the close of business on the
related Determination Date, less the
aggregate amount of any such delinquent payments that the Master Servicer
has
determined would constitute a
Nonrecoverable Advance if advanced.
Agreement: This
Pooling and Servicing
Agreement and all amendments or
supplements hereto.
6
<PAGE>
Allocable Share: With respect to any Class of Subordinated
Certificates
on any Distribution Date, such Class' pro rata share (based on the Class
Certificate Balance of each Class entitled
thereto) of each of the components of
the Subordinated Optimal Principal Amount
for each Mortgage Pool; provided that,
solely for purposes of this definition, the applicable Subordinated Optimal
Principal Amount for each Mortgage Pool will
be reduced by the amounts required
to be distributed to the related Class PO Certificates in respect of the
applicable Class PO Deferred Amount on such Distribution Date, and any such
reduction in the applicable Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount for each
Mortgage Pool shall reduce the amounts
calculated pursuant to
clauses (1), (4),
(2), (3) and (5) of the definition thereof, in that order, and the Class
Certificate Balances of each Class of
Subordinated
Certificates will be reduced
by such amounts in reverse order of priority until the respective Class
Certificate Balances of each Class of
Subordinated Certificates has been reduced
to zero; provided further, that, except as provided in this Agreement, no
Subordinated Certificates (other than the Class of
Subordinated
Certificates
with the highest priority of distribution)
shall be entitled on any Distribution
Date to receive distributions pursuant to clauses (2), (3) and (5) of the
definition of Subordinated Optimal Principal Amount unless
the Class Prepayment
Distribution Trigger for such Class is
satisfied for such Distribution Date.
Alternative Title
Product: Any one of the following: (i) Lien
Protection Insurance issued by Integrated Loan Services or ATM Corporation
of
America, (ii) a Mortgage Lien Report issued
by EPN
Solutions/ACRAnet,
(iii) a
Property Plus Report issued by Rapid Refinance Service through
SharperLending.com, or (iv) such other alternative
title insurance product that
the Seller utilizes in connection with its
then current underwriting criteria.
Amount Held for Future
Distribution: As to
any Distribution Date, the
aggregate amount held in the applicable
subaccount of the Certificate Account at
the close of business on the related Determination Date on account of (i)
Principal Prepayments on the related Mortgage Pool received after the
related
Prepayment Period and Liquidation Proceeds
in the related Mortgage Pool received
in the month of such Distribution Date and (ii) all Scheduled
Payments in the
related Mortgage Pool due after the related
Due Date.
Apportioned
Principal
Balance: For
any Class of Subordinated
Certificates and any Distribution Date, an
amount equal to the Class Certificate
Balance of such Class immediately prior to that
Distribution Date multiplied by
a fraction, the numerator of which is the
applicable Group
Subordinate Amount
for such Distribution Date and the
denominator of which is the sum of the Group
Subordinate Amounts for such Distribution
Date.
Appraised Value: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the Appraised
Value
of the related Mortgaged Property shall be: (i) with
respect to a Mortgage Loan
other than a Refinancing Mortgage Loan, the lesser of (a) the value of the
Mortgaged Property based upon the appraisal
made at the time of the origination
of such Mortgage Loan and (b) the sales price of
the Mortgaged Property
at the
time of the origination of such Mortgage Loan; (ii) with respect to a
Refinancing Mortgage Loan other than a
Streamlined
Documentation Mortgage Loan,
the value of the Mortgaged Property based
upon the appraisal made at the time of
the origination of such Refinancing Mortgage Loan; and (iii) with
respect to a
Streamlined Documentation Mortgage Loan, (a) if the
loan-to-value
ratio with
respect to the Original Mortgage Loan at
the time of the origination thereof was
90% or less, the value of the Mortgaged
Property based upon
the appraisal made
at the time of the origination of the Original Mortgage Loan and (b) if the
loan-to-value ratio with respect to the Original
Mortgage Loan at the time of
the origination thereof was greater than 90%, the value of the Mortgaged
Property based upon the appraisal
(which may be a
drive-by appraisal)
made at
the time of the origination of such
Streamlined Documentation Mortgage Loan.
7
<PAGE>
Available Funds:
For each Mortgage Pool, with respect to any
Distribution Date, an amount equal to the
sum of:
(a) all scheduled installments of interest, net of the Master
Servicing Fee,
the Trustee Fee and any amounts due to First
Horizon in
respect of the
Retained Yield on such Distribution
Date, and all scheduled installments of principal due in respect
of the Mortgage Loans in such Mortgage Pool on the Due Date in
the
month in which the
Distribution Date
occurs and received
before
the related
Determination Date,
together with any Advances in
respect thereof;
(b) all Insurance
Proceeds, all Liquidation Proceeds and Unanticipated
Recoveries received
in respect of the Mortgage Loans in such
Mortgage Pool during
the calendar month
before the
Distribution
Date, which in each case is net of unreimbursed expenses incurred
in connection with a liquidation or foreclosure and unreimbursed
Advances, if any;
(c) all Principal Prepayments received in respect of the Mortgage
Loans in such Mortgage Pool during the related Prepayment Period,
plus interest received
thereon, net of any Prepayment Interest
Excess;
(d) any Compensating
Interest in respect of
Principal Prepayments
in
Full received in
respect of the Mortgage Loans in such Mortgage
Pool during the related Prepayment Period (or, in the case
of the
first Distribution Date, from the Cut-off Date); and
(e) any Substitution
Adjustment
Amount or the Purchase
Price for any
Deleted Mortgage Loan
in the related
Mortgage Pool or a Mortgage
Loan in the related Mortgage Pool repurchased by the Seller or
the
Master
Servicer as of such Distribution Date, reduced by amounts
in reimbursement
for Advances
previously made and
other amounts
that the Master
Servicer is entitled to be reimbursed for out of
the Certificate Account pursuant to this Agreement.
Bankruptcy Code: The
United States
Bankruptcy Reform Act
of 1978, as
amended.
Bankruptcy Coverage
Termination Date: The date on which the Bankruptcy
Loss Coverage Amount is reduced to
zero.
Bankruptcy Loss:
With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a Deficient
Valuation or Debt Service Reduction;
provided, however, that a Bankruptcy
Loss
shall not be deemed a Bankruptcy
Loss hereunder so long
as the Master
Servicer
has notified the Trustee in writing
that the Master
Servicer is diligently
pursuing any remedies that may exist in connection with the related Mortgage
Loan and either (A) the related
Mortgage Loan is not in default with regard
to
payments due thereunder or (B) delinquent payments of principal and
interest
under the related Mortgage Loan and any related
escrow payments in respect of
such Mortgage Loan are being advanced on a
current basis by the Master Servicer,
in either case without giving effect to any
Debt Service Reduction
or Deficient
Valuation.
8
<PAGE>
Bankruptcy Loss
Coverage Amount:
As of any Determination Date, the
Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount shall equal the Initial
Bankruptcy
Coverage
Amount as reduced by (i) the aggregate
amount of Bankruptcy
Losses allocated to
the Certificates since the Cut-off Date and (ii)
any permissible
reductions in
the Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount as evidenced by a letter of each
Rating
Agency to the Trustee to the effect that
any such reduction will not result in a
downgrading of the then current ratings
assigned to the
Classes of Certificates
rated by it. As of any Distribution Date on or after the Cross-over
Date, the
Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount will be
zero.
Blanket Mortgage: The mortgage or mortgages encumbering the
Cooperative
Property.
Book-Entry Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Business Day: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday,
or (ii) a
day on which banking institutions in the City of
Dallas, or the State
of Texas
or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located
are
authorized or obligated by law or executive
order to be closed.
Certificate: Any one
of the Certificates
executed by the Trustee in
substantially the forms attached hereto as
exhibits.
Certificate Account:
The separate Eligible Account or Accounts created
and maintained by the Master Servicer
pursuant to Section
3.5 with a depository
institution in the name of the Master
Servicer for the benefit of the Trustee on
behalf of Certificateholders and designated
"First Horizon Home Loan Corporation
in trust for the registered holders of First Horizon Asset Securities Inc.
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series
2005-FA5."
Certificate Group: As
specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Certificate Owner: With respect to a Book-Entry Certificate, the
Person
who is the beneficial owner of such
Book-Entry Certificate.
Certificate Principal
Balance: With respect
to any Certificate and as
of any Distribution Date, the Certificate Principal Balance on the date of
the
initial issuance of such Certificate, as
reduced by:
(a) all amounts
distributed
on previous
Distribution
Dates on such
Certificate on account of principal,
(b) the principal
portion of all Realized Losses previously allocated
to such Certificate, and
(c) in the case of a
Subordinated Certificate, such Certificate's pro
rata share, if any,
of the Subordinated Certificate Writedown
Amount for previous Distribution Dates.
9
<PAGE>
Certificate Register:
The register
maintained pursuant to Section 5.2
hereof.
Certificateholder or
Holder: The person in whose name a Certificate is
registered in the Certificate Register, except that, solely for the
purpose of
giving any consent pursuant to this
Agreement, any Certificate registered in the
name of the Depositor or the Seller or any
affiliate or agent of
the Depositor
or the Seller shall be deemed not to be
Outstanding and the Percentage Interest
evidenced thereby shall not be taken into account in
determining
whether the
requisite amount of Percentage Interests necessary to effect such consent
has
been obtained; provided, however, that if any such Person (including the
Depositor) owns 100% of the Percentage Interests evidenced by a Class of
Certificates, such Certificates shall be deemed to be Outstanding
for purposes
of any provision hereof that requires the
consent of the Holders of Certificates
of a particular Class as a condition to the
taking of any action hereunder. The
Trustee is entitled to rely conclusively on a certification of
the Depositor or
any affiliate of the Depositor in
determining which
Certificates are registered
in the name of an affiliate of the
Depositor.
Class: All Certificates bearing the same class designation as set
forth
in the Preliminary Statement.
Class Certificate
Balance: With respect to any Class of
Certificates
and as of any Distribution Date the aggregate of the Certificate Principal
Balances of all Certificates of such Class as of such date,
plus the amount of
any Unanticipated Recoveries added to the Class Certificate Balance of such
Class of Certificate pursuant to Section
4.2(h).
Class I-A PO Deferred Amount: With respect to the Class I-A-PO
Certificates and any Distribution Date through the Cross-over Date,
the sum of
(1) the Class I-A-PO Percentage of the
principal portion of Non-Excess Losses on
a Discount Mortgage Loan in Pool I
allocated to the Class I-A-PO Certificates on
such date, and (2) all amounts previously allocated to the Class I-A-PO
Certificates in respect of such losses and not
distributed to the
Class I-A-PO
Certificates on prior Distribution
Dates.
Class I-A-PO
Percentage: (a) With respect to any Discount Mortgage Loan
in Pool I, the fraction, expressed as a percentage,
equal to (5.50% -
Adjusted
Net Mortgage Rate) divided by 5.50%,
and (b) with respect
to any
Non-Discount
Mortgage Loan in Pool I, 0%.
Class II-A PO
Deferred Amount: With respect to the Class II-A-PO
Certificates and any Distribution Date through the Cross-over Date,
the sum of
(1) the Class II-A-PO Percentage of the principal
portion of Non-Excess
Losses
on a Discount Mortgage Loan in Pool II allocated to the Class II-A-PO
Certificates on such date, and (2) all
amounts previously allocated to the Class
II-A-PO Certificates in respect of such
losses and not distributed to the Class
II-A-PO Certificates on prior Distribution
Dates.
Class II-A-PO
Percentage:
(a) With respect to
any Discount
Mortgage
Loan in Pool II, the fraction, expressed as a percentage, equal to (5.00% -
Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate) divided by 5.00%, and (b) with respect to any
Non-Discount Mortgage Loan in Pool II,
0%.
Class PO Certificates: The Class I-A-PO and Class II-A-PO
Certificates.
10
<PAGE>
Class PO Deferred Amount: (a) With respect to the Class I-A-PO
Certificates, the Class I-A-PO Deferred Amount; and (b) with respect to the
Class II-A-PO Certificates, the Class
II-A-PO Deferred Amount.
Class PO Deferred Payment Writedown Amount: For any Distribution Date
and any class of Class PO Certificates,
the amount, if any,
distributed on such
date in respect of the related Class PO Deferred Amount pursuant to Section
4.2(a)(iv) herein. The Subordinated
Certificate
Writedown Amount and
the Class
PO Deferred Payment Writedown Amount will be allocated to the Classes of
Subordinated Certificates in inverse order of priority, until the Class
Certificate Balance of each such Class has
been reduced to zero.
Class PO Principal Distribution Amount: With respect to each
Distribution Date and any class of Class PO
Certificates, an amount equal to the
sum of:
(1) the applicable PO Percentage of all Scheduled Payments of
principal due on each Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool on
the
first day of the
month in which
the Distribution Date occurs, as
specified in the amortization schedule at the time applicable
thereto,
after adjustment for previous principal prepayments and the principal
portion of Debt Service Reductions after the Bankruptcy Loss
Coverage
Amount has been
reduced to zero, but
before any
adjustment
to such
amortization schedule
by reason of any other
bankruptcy
or similar
proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace period;
(2) the applicable
PO Percentage of the Stated Principal
Balance of each
Mortgage Loan in the
related Mortgage Pool
which was
the subject of a Principal Prepayment in Full received by the Master
Servicer during the related Prepayment Period;
(3) the applicable PO Percentage of the sum of (i) all partial
prepayments of principal for each Mortgage Loan in the related
Mortgage
Pool received by the
Master Servicer
during the
related Prepayment
Period and
(ii) all Unanticipated Recoveries in respect of each
Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool received during the
calendar
month preceding such Distribution Date;
(4) the applicable PO Percentage of the sum of (a) the
Liquidation Proceeds
allocable to principal
on each Mortgage Loan
in
the related Mortgage
Pool which
became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan
during the
related Prepayment Period, other than Mortgage Loans
described in clause (b), and (b) the principal balance of each
Mortgage
Loan in the related
Mortgage Pool that was purchased by a private
mortgage insurer during the related Prepayment Period as an
alternative
to paying a claim under the related mortgage insurance policy;
and
(5) the applicable PO Percentage, of the sum of (a) the Stated
Principal Balance of
each Mortgage Loan in
the related Mortgage
Pool
which was repurchased by the Seller in connection with such
Distribution Date, and
(b) the difference, if
any, between the Stated
Principal Balance of a
Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool that
has been replaced by the Seller with a Substitute Mortgage Loan
pursuant to this Agreement in connection with such Distribution Date
and the
Stated Principal Balance of such Substitute Mortgage Loan.
11
<PAGE>
For purposes of clauses (2) and (5) above, the Stated Principal
Balance
of a Mortgage Loan will be reduced by the
amount of any Deficient Valuation that
occurred prior to the reduction of the
Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount to zero.
Class Prepayment
Distribution
Trigger: For a Class of Subordinated
Certificates (other than the Class of
Subordinated Certificates with the highest
priority of distribution), a trigger that is satisfied on any
Distribution Date
on which a fraction (expressed as a percentage),
the numerator of which
is the
aggregate Class Certificate Balance of such Class and each
Class subordinate
thereto, if any, and the denominator of which is the aggregate Pool
Principal
Balance for all of the Mortgage
Pools with respect to
such Distribution
Date,
equals or exceeds such percentage
calculated as of the Closing Date.
Closing Date: June 30,
2005.
Code: The Internal
Revenue Code of 1986,
including any successor or
amendatory provisions.
COFI: Not
applicable.
COFI Certificates: Not
applicable.
Compensating Interest:
As to any Distribution
Date and any
Principal
Prepayment in respect of a Mortgage Loan
that is received during the period from
the sixteenth day of the month (or, in the
case of the first
Distribution Date,
from the Cut-off Date) prior to the month
of such Distribution
Date through the
last day of such month, an additional
payment to the related
Mortgage Pool made
by the Master Servicer, to the extent funds are available from the Master
Servicing Fee, equal to the amount of
interest at the Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate
for that Mortgage Loan from the date of the
prepayment to the
related Due Date;
provided that the aggregate of all such payments as
to the Mortgage Loans
in a
Mortgage Pool shall not exceed 0.0083% of the Pool Principal Balance of such
Mortgage Pool as of the related
Determination Date, and provided further that if
a partial Principal Prepayment is applied
on or after the first day of the month
following the month of receipt, no additional payment is required for such
Principal Prepayment.
Component: Not
applicable.
Component Balance: Not
applicable.
Component Certificates: Not applicable.
Cooperative
Corporation: The
entity that holds title (fee or an
acceptable leasehold estate) to the real
property and improvements constituting
the Cooperative Property and which governs the Cooperative Property, which
Cooperative Corporation must qualify as a
Cooperative Housing Corporation under
Section 216 of the Code.
12
<PAGE>
Coop Shares: Shares
issued by a Cooperative Corporation.
Cooperative Loan:
Any Mortgage Loan secured by Coop Shares and a
Proprietary Lease.
Cooperative Property:
The real property and
improvements owned by the
Cooperative Corporation, including the allocation of
individual dwelling units
to the holders of the Coop Shares of the
Cooperative Corporation.
Cooperative Unit: A
single family
dwelling located in a Cooperative
Property.
Corporate Trust
Office: The
designated
office of the Trustee
in the
State of New York at which at any
particular time its
corporate trust
business
with respect to this Agreement shall be
administered,
which office at the
date
of the execution of this Agreement is located at The Bank of New York,
101
Barclay Street, 8W, New York, New York 10286 (Attn: Corporate Trust
Mortgage-Backed Securities Group, First Horizon Asset Securities Inc. Series
2005-FA5), facsimile no. (212) 815-3986, and which is the address to which
notices to and correspondence with the
Trustee should be directed.
Corresponding Classes:
As to any Middle REMIC
Interest identified
in
Section 2.7, the Class or Classes that are identified in Section 2.7 as
corresponding to such Middle REMIC
Interest.
Corresponding Classes of Middle REMIC Interests: As to any Lower REMIC
Interest identified in Section 2.7, the Middle REMIC
Interest or Middle
REMIC
Interests that are identified in Section 2.7 as corresponding to such Lower
REMIC Interest.
Cross-over Date: The Distribution Date on which the Class
Certificate
Balances of each Class of Subordinated
Certificates have been reduced to zero.
Custodial Agreement:
The Custodial Agreement dated as of June 30, 2005
by and among the Trustee, the Master
Servicer and the Custodian.
Custodian: First
Tennessee Bank National Association, a national
banking association, and its successors and assigns,
as custodian
under the
Custodial Agreement.
Cut-off Date: June 1,
2005.
Cut-off Date
Pool Principal Balance: With respect to Pool I,
$352,679,580.50, with respect to Pool II, $25,012,025.79 and with respect to
Pool III, $87,369,763.38.
Cut-off Date Principal
Balance: As to any Mortgage Loan, the Stated
Principal Balance thereof as of the close
of business on the Cut-off Date.
Debt Service Reduction: With respect to any Mortgage Loan,
a reduction
by a court of competent jurisdiction in a proceeding
under the Bankruptcy
Code
in the Scheduled Payment for such Mortgage Loan which became final and
non-appealable, except such a reduction resulting
from a Deficient Valuation or
any reduction that results in a permanent
forgiveness of principal.
13
<PAGE>
Defective Mortgage
Loan: Any Mortgage Loan which is required to be
repurchased pursuant to Section 2.2 or
2.3.
Deficient Valuation:
With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a valuation by
a court of competent jurisdiction of the Mortgaged Property in an amount less
than the then-outstanding indebtedness
under the Mortgage Loan, or any reduction
in the amount of principal to be paid in
connection with any
Scheduled Payment
that results in a permanent forgiveness of principal, which valuation or
reduction results from an order of such
court which is final and non-appealable
in a proceeding under the Bankruptcy
Code.
Definitive
Certificates: Any
Certificate
evidenced by a Physical
Certificate and any Certificate issued in lieu of a Book-Entry Certificate
pursuant to Section 5.2(e).
Delay Certificates: As
specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Delay Delivery
Mortgage Loans:
The Mortgage Loans for
which all or a
portion of a related Mortgage File is not delivered to Trustee on the
Closing
Date. The number of Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans shall not exceed
25% of the
aggregate number of Mortgage Loans as of
the Closing Date.
Deleted Mortgage Loan:
As defined in Section 2.3(b) hereof.
Denomination: With respect to each Certificate, the amount set
forth on
the face thereof as the "Initial
Certificate Balance of this Certificate" or the
Percentage Interest appearing on the face
thereof.
Depositor: First Horizon Asset Securities Inc., a Delaware
corporation,
or its successor in interest.
Depository: The
initial Depository shall be The Depository Trust
Company, the nominee of which is CEDE &
Co., as the registered
Holder of the
Book-Entry Certificates. The Depository shall at all times be a "clearing
corporation" as defined in Section
8-102(a)(5) of the Uniform Commercial Code of
the State of New York.
Depository
Participant: A
broker, dealer, bank or other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a
Depository
effects
book-entry transfers and pledges of
securities deposited with the Depository.
Designated Mortgage
Pool Rates: With
respect to Pool I, 5.500%, with
respect to Pool II, 5.000% and with respect
to Pool III, 5.500%.
Determination Date: As to any Distribution Date, the earlier of (i)
the
third Business Day after the 15th day of each month, and (ii) the second
Business Day prior to the related
Distribution Date.
Discount Mortgage
Loan: Any Mortgage Loan in Pool I with
an Adjusted
Net Mortgage Rate of less than 5.50% and any
Mortgage Loan in Pool II with an
Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of less than
5.00%.
14
<PAGE>
Distribution
Account: The
separate Eligible Account created and
maintained by the Trustee pursuant to
Section 3.5 in the name of the Trustee for
the benefit of the Certificateholders and designated "The Bank of New
York, in
trust for registered Holders of First Horizon Asset
Securities
Inc. Mortgage
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-FA5." Funds in the
Distribution Account
shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders for the uses
and purposes set
forth in this Agreement.
Distribution Account
Deposit Date: As to any Distribution Date, 1:30
p.m. Central time on the Business Day
immediately preceding
such Distribution
Date.
Distribution Date:
The 25th day of each calendar month after the
initial issuance of the Certificates, or if
such 25th day is not a Business Day,
the next succeeding Business Day,
commencing in July 2005.
Due Date: With respect to any Distribution Date, the first day of the
month in which the related Distribution
Date occurs.
Eligible Account: Any
of (i) an account or accounts maintained with a
federal or state chartered depository institution or trust company the
short-term unsecured debt obligations of
which (or, in the case of a depository
institution or trust company that is the principal subsidiary of a holding
company, the debt obligations of such holding company) have the highest
short-term ratings of each Rating Agency at the time any
amounts are held
on
deposit therein, or (ii) an account or accounts in
a depository
institution or
trust company in which such accounts are
insured by the FDIC or the SAIF (to the
limits established by the FDIC or the SAIF, as
applicable)
and the uninsured
deposits in which accounts are otherwise
secured such that, as
evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Trustee and to each Rating Agency, the
Certificateholders have a claim with respect to the funds in such
account or a
perfected first priority security interest against any collateral
(which shall
be limited to Permitted Investments) securing such funds that is superior to
claims of any other depositors or creditors of the
depository
institution
or
trust company in which such account is
maintained,
or (iii) a trust
account or
accounts maintained with (a) the trust department of a federal or state
chartered depository institution or (b) a
trust company, acting in its fiduciary
capacity or (iv) any other account
acceptable to each
Rating Agency.
Eligible
Accounts may bear interest, and may include, if otherwise qualified under
this
definition, accounts maintained with the
Trustee.
ERISA: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
ERISA-Qualifying
Underwriting: With
respect to any
ERISA-Restricted
Certificate, a best efforts or firm
commitment underwriting or private placement
that meets the requirements of the
Underwriters' Exemption.
ERISA-Restricted
Certificate: As
specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Escrow Account:
The Eligible Account or Accounts established and
maintained pursuant to Section 3.6(a)
hereof.
Event of Default: As
defined in Section 7.1 hereof.
15
<PAGE>
Excess Loss:
With respect to a
Mortgage Pool,
the amount of any
(i)
Fraud Loss realized after the Fraud Loss
Coverage Termination Date, (ii) Special
Hazard Loss realized after the Special
Hazard Coverage Termination Date or (iii)
Deficient Valuation realized after the
Bankruptcy Coverage Termination Date.
Excess Proceeds:
With respect to any
Liquidated
Mortgage Loan, the
amount, if any, by which the sum of any
Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds
and/or Unanticipated Recoveries in respect
of such Mortgage Loan received in the
calendar month in which such Mortgage Loan
became a Liquidated
Mortgage Loan,
net of any amounts previously reimbursed to the Master Servicer as
Nonrecoverable Advance(s) with respect to
such Mortgage Loan pursuant to Section
3.8(a)(iii), exceeds (i) the unpaid principal balance of such Liquidated
Mortgage Loan as of the Due Date in the
month in which such Mortgage Loan became
a Liquidated Mortgage Loan plus (ii) accrued
interest at the Mortgage Rate from
the Due Date as to which interest was last
paid or advanced (and not reimbursed)
to Certificateholders up to the Due Date applicable to
the Distribution
Date
immediately following the calendar month
during which such liquidation occurred.
Expense Fee Rate:
As to each
Mortgage Loan, the sum of the related
Master Servicing Fee Rate and the Trustee
Fee Rate.
FDIC: The Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, or any successor
thereto.
FHLMC: The
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a corporate
instrumentality of the United States
created and existing under Title III of the
Emergency Home Finance Act of 1970, as
amended, or any successor thereto.
FIRREA: The Financial
Institutions Reform,
Recovery, and
Enforcement
Act of 1989.
First Horizon:
First
Horizon Home Loan Corporation, a Kansas
corporation and an indirect wholly owned
subsidiary of First
Horizon National
Corporation, a Tennessee corporation.
Fitch: Fitch Ratings or any successor thereto. If Fitch is designated
as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary
Statement, for purposes of Section 11.5(b)
the address for notices to Fitch shall be
Fitch, Inc.,
One State Street
Plaza,
New York, New York 10004, Attention:
Residential Mortgage Surveillance Group, or
such other address as Fitch may hereafter furnish to the Depositor and the
Master Servicer.
FNMA: The Federal National Mortgage Association, a federally chartered
and privately owned corporation organized and existing under the Federal
National Mortgage Association Charter Act,
or any successor thereto.
Fraud Loan: A
Liquidated
Mortgage Loan as to which a Fraud Loss
has
occurred.
Fraud Losses: Realized
Losses on Mortgage
Loans as to which a loss is
sustained by reason of a default arising from fraud, dishonesty or
misrepresentation in connection with the
related Mortgage Loan, including a loss
by reason of the denial of coverage under
any related Primary
Insurance Policy
because of such fraud, dishonesty or
misrepresentation.
16
<PAGE>
Fraud Loss Coverage Amount: As of the Closing Date, $9,301,227. As of
any Distribution Date from the first anniversary of the Cut-off Date
and prior
to the fifth anniversary of the Cut-off Date, the Fraud Loss Coverage
Amount
will equal $4,650,614 minus the aggregate
amount of Fraud Losses that would have
been allocated to the Subordinated Certificates in the absence of the Loss
Allocation Limitation since the Cut-off Date.
As of any Distribution Date on or
after the earlier of the Cross-over Date or
the fifth anniversary of the Cut-off
Date, the Fraud Loss Coverage Amount shall
be zero.
Fraud Loss Coverage
Termination Date: The date on which the Fraud Loss
Coverage Amount is reduced to zero.
Group I Senior Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Group II Senior Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Group III Senior Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Group Subordinate
Amount: For a Mortgage Pool and any Distribution
Date, the excess of (a) the Pool Principal
Balance of such Mortgage Pool for the
immediately preceding Distribution Date, over (b) the aggregate Class
Certificate Balance of the Senior Certificates
of the related Certificate Group
immediately prior to that Distribution
Date.
Index: LIBOR.
Indirect Participant:
A broker, dealer, bank or other financial
institution or other Person that clears through or maintains a custodial
relationship with a Depository
Participant.
Initial Bankruptcy Coverage Amount: $150,000.
Initial Component Balance: Not applicable.
Insurance Policy:
With respect to any
Mortgage Loan
included in the
Trust Fund, any insurance policy,
including all riders
and endorsements thereto
in effect, including any replacement policy or policies for any Insurance
Policies.
Insurance Proceeds:
Proceeds paid by an insurer pursuant to any
Insurance Policy, in each case other than
any amount included in such Insurance
Proceeds in respect of Insured
Expenses.
Insured Expenses:
Expenses covered by an Insurance Policy or any other
insurance policy with respect to the
Mortgage Loans.
Interest Accrual
Period: With respect to each Class of Delay
Certificates and any Distribution Date, the
calendar month prior to the month of
such Distribution Date. With respect to any Non-Delay Certificates and any
Distribution Date, the one month period
commencing on the 25th day of the month
preceding the month in which such
Distribution
Date occurs and ending on the
24th day of the month in which such
Distribution Date occurs.
17
<PAGE>
Latest Possible
Maturity Date: As to the Group I Senior Certificates,
each Class of Subordinated Certificates, each Lower REMIC Interest, and each
Middle REMIC Interest, the Distribution Date following
the third anniversary of
the scheduled maturity date of the Mortgage Loan in Pool I having the
latest
scheduled maturity date as of the Cut-off Date. As to the Group II Senior
Certificates, the Distribution Date following the third anniversary of the
scheduled maturity date of the Mortgage Loan in Pool II having the latest
scheduled maturity date as of the Cut-off Date. As to the Group III Senior
Certificates, the Distribution Date following the third anniversary of the
scheduled maturity date of the Mortgage Loan in Pool III having the latest
scheduled maturity date as of the Cut-off
Date.
Lender PMI Mortgage Loan: Not applicable.
LIBOR: The London
interbank offered rate for one month United
States
dollar deposits calculated in the manner
described in Section 4.9.
LIBOR Business Day:
Any day on which banks in London, England and The
City of New York are open and conducting
transactions
in foreign
currency and
exchange.
LIBOR Certificates: As
specified in the Preliminary Statement.
LIBOR Determination Date: For the LIBOR Certificates, the second LIBOR
Business Day immediately preceding the commencement of each Interest Accrual
Period for each LIBOR Certificate.
Liquidated Mortgage
Loan: With respect to any Distribution Date, a
defaulted Mortgage Loan (including any REO
Property) which was liquidated in the
calendar month preceding the month of such
Distribution Date and as to which the
Master Servicer has determined (in
accordance with this
Agreement) that it has
received all amounts it expects to receive
in connection with the liquidation of
such Mortgage Loan, including the final
disposition of an REO Property.
Liquidation Proceeds:
All cash amounts,
other than Insurance Proceeds
and Unanticipated Recoveries, received in connection with the partial or
complete liquidation of defaulted
Mortgage Loans,
whether through trustee's
sale, foreclosure sale or otherwise or amounts
received in connection with any
condemnation or partial release of a Mortgaged
Property and any other
proceeds
received in connection with an REO Property, less the sum of related
unreimbursed Master Servicing Fees,
Servicing Advances and Advances.
Loan-to-Value Ratio:
With respect to any
Mortgage Loan and as
of any
date of determination, the fraction
(expressed as a percentage) the numerator of
which is the principal balance of the related Mortgage Loan at such date of
determination and the denominator of which
is the Appraised Value of the related
Mortgaged Property.
Loss Allocation Limitation: As defined in Section 4.4(g).
Lost Mortgage
Note: Any Mortgage Note, the original of which was
permanently lost or destroyed and has not
been replaced.
18
<PAGE>
Lower REMIC: The segregated pool of assets consisting of the Trust
Fund
but excluding the Retained Yield,
the Middle REMIC
Interests,
the Lower REMIC
Interests, the RL Interest, the RM
Interest, and the RU Interest.
Lower REMIC Interests: The REMIC regular interests, within the meaning
of the REMIC Provisions, issued by the
Lower REMIC as set forth in Section 2.7.
Maintenance: With respect to any Cooperative Unit, the rent paid by
the
Mortgagor to the Cooperative Corporation
pursuant to the Proprietary Lease.
Majority in
Interest: As to any Class of Regular
Certificates,
the
Holders of Certificates of such Class
evidencing, in the aggregate, at least 51%
of the Percentage Interests evidenced by
all Certificates of such Class.
Master Servicer:
First Horizon Home Loan Corporation, a Kansas
corporation, and its successors and assigns, in
its capacity as master servicer
hereunder.
Master Servicer
Advance Date: As to any Distribution Date, 1:30 p.m.
Central time on the Business Day
immediately preceding such Distribution Date.
Master Servicing
Fee: As to each
Mortgage Loan and any
Distribution
Date, an amount payable out of each full payment
of interest received
on such
Mortgage Loan and equal to one-twelfth of the Master Servicing Fee Rate
multiplied by the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as
of the Due
Date in the month of such Distribution Date (prior to giving effect to any
Scheduled Payments due on such Mortgage Loan on such Due Date), subject to
reduction as provided in Section 3.14.
Master
Servicing Fee Rate: For each Mortgage Loan a per annum rate
equal to 0.369%.
MERS: Mortgage
Electronic
Registration Systems,
Inc., a
corporation
organized and existing under the laws of
the State of Delaware, or any successor
thereto.
MERS Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan registered with MERS on the
MERS
System.
MERS(R) System:
The system of recording transfers of mortgages
electronically maintained by MERS.
Middle REMIC: The
segregated
pool of assets
consisting of the
Lower
REMIC Interests.
Middle REMIC Interests: The REMIC regular interests, within the
meaning
of the REMIC Provisions, issued by the
Middle REMIC as set forth in Section 2.7.
MIN: The Mortgage
Identification Number for any MERS Mortgage Loan.
MLPA: The Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement dated as of June 30, 2005,
by and between First Horizon Home Loan
Corporation, as seller, and First Horizon
Asset Securities Inc., as purchaser, as related to the transfer, sale and
conveyance of the Mortgage Loans.
19
<PAGE>
MOM Loan: Any Mortgage
Loan as to which MERS
is acting as
mortgagee,
solely as nominee for the originator of such Mortgage Loan and its successors
and assigns.
Monthly Statement: The
statement delivered to
the
Certificateholders
pursuant to Section 4.6.
Moody's: Moody's
Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto. If
Moody's is designated as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary Statement, for
purposes of Section 11.5(b) the address for notices to
Moody's shall be Moody's
Investors Service, Inc., 99 Church Street,
New York, New York 10007, Attention:
Residential Pass-Through Monitoring, or such other address as Moody's may
hereafter furnish to the Depositor or the
Master Servicer.
Mortgage: The
mortgage, deed of
trust or other instrument creating a
first lien on an estate in fee simple or
leasehold interest in real property
securing a Mortgage Note.
Mortgage File: The mortgage documents listed in Section 2.1(b)
hereof
pertaining to a particular Mortgage Loan
and any additional
documents delivered
to the Trustee to be added to the Mortgage
File pursuant to this Agreement.
Mortgage Loan
Schedule: The list of Mortgage Loans (as from time to
time amended by the Master Servicer to reflect the addition of Substitute
Mortgage Loans and the deletion of Deleted Mortgage Loans pursuant to the
provisions of this Agreement) transferred to the Trustee as part of the
Trust
Fund and from time to time subject to this Agreement, attached hereto as
Schedule I, setting forth the following information with respect to each
Mortgage Loan:
(1) the loan
number;
(2) the
Mortgagor's
name and the street address of the
Mortgaged Property, including the zip code;
(3) the maturity
date;
(4)
the original
principal balance;
(5) the Cut-off
Date Principal Balance;
(6) the first
payment date of the Mortgage Loan;
(7) the
Scheduled Payment in effect as of the Cut-off Date;
(8) the
Loan-to-Value Ratio at origination;
(9) a code
indicating whether the
residential
dwelling at
the time of origination was represented to be
owner-occupied;
(10) a code indicating
whether the
residential
dwelling is
either (a) a
detached single family dwelling (b) a
dwelling in a de minimis PUD, (c) a condominium unit or
PUD (other than a de
minimis PUD),
(d) a two-to-four
unit residential property or (e) a Cooperative Unit;
20
<PAGE>
(11) the Mortgage
Rate;
(12) the purpose for
the Mortgage Loan;
(13) the type of
documentation program
pursuant to which the
Mortgage Loan was originated;
(14) the Master
Servicing Fee for the Mortgage Loan; and
(15) a code
indicating
whether the Mortgage
Loan is a MERS
Mortgage Loan.
Such schedule shall
also set forth the total of the amounts described
under (4) and (5) above for all of the
Mortgage Loans.
Mortgage Loans: Such
of the mortgage loans transferred and assigned to
the Trustee pursuant to the provisions
hereof as from time to time are held as a
part of the Trust Fund (including any REO
Property), the
mortgage loans so held
being identified in the Mortgage Loan
Schedule,
notwithstanding
foreclosure or
other acquisition of title of the related
Mortgaged Property.
Mortgage Note:
The original executed note or other evidence of
indebtedness evidencing the indebtedness of
a Mortgagor under a Mortgage Loan.
Mortgage Pool: Any of
Pool I, Pool II or Pool III.
Mortgage Rate:
The annual rate of
interest borne by a
Mortgage Note
from time to time, net of any insurance premium charged by the mortgagee to
obtain or maintain any Primary Insurance
Policy.
Mortgaged Property:
The underlying
property securing a Mortgage Loan,
which, with respect to a Cooperative Loan, is the related Coop Shares and
Proprietary Lease.
Mortgagor:
The obligor(s) on a
Mortgage Note.
NAS Certificates: As
specified in the Preliminary Statement.
NAS Distribution
Percentage: 0% through
the Distribution Date in June
2010; 30% of the applicable NAS Percentage
thereafter
through the
Distribution
Date in June 2011; 40% of the applicable
NAS Percentage
thereafter through
the
Distribution Date in June 2012; 60% of the
applicable NAS Percentage thereafter
through the Distribution Date in June 2013;
80% of the applicable NAS Percentage
thereafter through the Distribution Date in June 2014; and 100% of the
applicable NAS Percentage thereafter.
21
<PAGE>
NAS Percentage: For
any Distribution Date,
the lesser of (x) 100% and
(y) the percentage (carried to six places rounded up)
obtained by dividing (1)
the aggregate Class Certificate Balances of the NAS Certificates immediately
preceding such Distribution Date by (2) the Pool Principal Balance of Pool I
(excluding the applicable PO Percentage of the principal balance of each
Discount Mortgage Loan included therein)
for such Distribution Date.
NAS Principal Distribution Amount: For any Distribution Date, the
total
of the amounts described in clauses (1) through
(5) of the definition of Senior
Optimal Principal Amount for Pool I
(determined without
the application of the
related Senior Percentage and Senior
Prepayment Percentage,
as applicable) for
such date multiplied by the NAS
Distribution Percentage for such date.
Net Interest
Shortfall: For any
Distribution
Date and each
Mortgage
Pool, the sum of (a) the amount of
interest which would otherwise have been
received for any Mortgage Loan in such
Mortgage Pool that was the subject of (x)
a Relief Act Reduction or (y) a Special
Hazard Loss,
Fraud Loss, or
Deficient
Valuation, after the exhaustion of the
respective amounts of coverage for those
types of losses provided by the Subordinated Certificates; and (b) any Net
Prepayment Interest Shortfalls in respect
of such Mortgage Pool.
Net Prepayment
Interest Shortfalls:
As to any Distribution
Date and
each Mortgage Pool, the amount by which the
aggregate of
Prepayment
Interest
Shortfalls in respect of the Mortgage
Loans in such
Mortgage Pool during the
related Prepayment Period exceeds an
amount equal to the Compensating Interest
paid in respect of such Mortgage Loans, if
any, for such Distribution Date.
Non-Class I-A-PO
Percentage: (a) With
respect to a Discount
Mortgage
Loan in Pool I, the fraction, expressed as a percentage,
equal to the
Adjusted
Net Mortgage Rate divided by 5.50%,
and (b) with respect
to each
Non-Discount
Mortgage Loan in Pool I, 100%.
Non-Class II-A-PO
Percentage: (a) With
respect to a Discount Mortgage
Loan in Pool II, the fraction, expressed as a percentage, equal
to the Adjusted
Net Mortgage Rate divided by 5.00%,
and (b) with respect
to each
Non-Discount
Mortgage Loan in Pool II, 100%.
Non-Delay Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Non-Discount Mortgage
Loan: Any Mortgage Loan in Pool I with an
Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate that is equal to or greater
than 5.50% per annum and
any Mortgage Loan in Pool II with an
Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate that is equal to
or greater than 5.00% per annum.
Non-Excess Loss: Any
Realized Loss other than an Excess Loss.
Non-PO Percentage:
(a) With respect to
Pool I, the Non-Class
I-A-PO
Percentage, and (b) with respect to Pool
II, the Non-Class II-A-PO Percentage.
Nonrecoverable
Advance: Any portion
of an Advance
previously made or
proposed to be made by the Master
Servicer that, in the good faith judgment
of
the Master Servicer, will not be ultimately
recoverable by the
Master Servicer
from the related Mortgagor, related
Liquidation Proceeds or otherwise.
22
<PAGE>
Notice of Final
Distribution: The
notice to be provided
pursuant to
Section 9.2 to the effect that final distribution on any of the Certificates
shall be made only upon presentation and
surrender thereof.
Notional Amount: As
specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Notional Amount Component: Not applicable.
Notional Amount
Certificates:
As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Offered Certificates:
As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Officer's Certificate:
A Certificate (i) signed by the Chairman of the
Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board,
the President,
a Managing
Director, a
Vice President (however denominated), an Assistant Vice President, the
Treasurer, the Secretary, or one of the Assistant Treasurers or Assistant
Secretaries of the Depositor or the Master
Servicer, or (ii), if provided for in
this Agreement, signed by a Servicing
Officer, as the case may be, and delivered
to the Depositor and the Trustee, as the case may be, as required by this
Agreement.
Opinion of Counsel: A
written opinion of
counsel, who may be
counsel
for the Depositor or the Master Servicer, including, in-house counsel,
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee;
provided, however, that with respect to
the interpretation or application of the
REMIC Provisions, such counsel must (i)
in fact be independent of the Depositor and
the Master Servicer,
(ii) not have
any direct financial interest in the Depositor or the
Master Servicer or in any
affiliate of either, and (iii) not be
connected with the Depositor or the Master
Servicer as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner,
director or person performing similar
functions.
Optional Termination: The termination of the trust created
hereunder in
connection with the purchase of the Mortgage
Loans pursuant to Section 9.1(a)
hereof.
Original Group Subordinate Amount: With respect to a Mortgage Pool,
the
related Group Subordinate Amount as of the
Closing Date.
Original Mortgage Loan: The Mortgage Loan refinanced in connection
with
the origination of a Refinancing Mortgage
Loan.
OTS: The Office of
Thrift Supervision.
Outside Reference Date: Not applicable.
Outstanding: With
respect to the Certificates as of any date of
determination, all Certificates theretofore executed and authenticated
under
this Agreement except:
(i)
Certificates
theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation; and
(ii)
Certificates in
exchange for which or
in lieu of which other
Certificates have been
executed and delivered
by the Trustee
pursuant to this Agreement.
23
<PAGE>
Outstanding Mortgage
Loan: As of any Due
Date, a Mortgage Loan with a
Stated Principal Balance greater than zero which was not the subject of a
Principal Prepayment in Full prior to such Due Date and
which did not become a
Liquidated Mortgage Loan prior to such Due
Date.
Ownership Interest:
As to any Residual Certificate, any ownership
interest in such Certificate including any interest in such
Certificate as the
Holder thereof and any other interest
therein, whether direct or indirect, legal
or beneficial.
Pass-Through Rate: For any interest bearing Class of Certificates,
the
per annum rate set forth or calculated in the manner described in the
Preliminary Statement.
Percentage Interest:
As to any Certificate,
the percentage
interest
evidenced thereby in distributions required to be made on the related
Class,
such percentage interest being set forth on the face
thereof or equal to
the
percentage obtained by dividing the
Denomination
of such Certificate by the
aggregate of the Denominations of all
Certificates of the same Class.
Permitted Investments:
At any time,
any one or more of the
following
obligations and securities:
(i) obligations
of the United States or any agency thereof,
provided such
obligations are backed
by the full faith
and credit of the United States;
(ii) general
obligations of or obligations guaranteed by any
state of the United
States or the District
of Columbia
receiving the
highest long-term debt rating of each
Rating Agency;
(iii) commercial
or finance company paper which is then
receiving the
highest commercial or finance company
paper rating of each Rating Agency;
(iv) certificates
of deposit,
demand or time
deposits, or
bankers'
acceptances
issued by
any depository
institution or trust company incorporated under the laws
of the United States or of any state thereof and subject
to supervision and
examination by federal
and/or state
banking authorities,
provided that the commercial paper
and/or long term
unsecured debt obligations of such
depository institution
or trust company (or in the case
of the principal
depository
institution
in a holding
company system,
the commercial paper or long-term
unsecured debt obligations of such holding company, but
only if Moody's is not a Rating Agency) are then rated
one of the two highest
long-term and/or the highest
short-term ratings
of each Rating Agency for such
securities;
(v) demand
or time deposits or certificates of deposit
issued by any bank or trust company or savings
institution to the
extent that such
deposits are fully
insured by the FDIC and receiving the highest short-term
debt rating of each Rating Agency;
24
<PAGE>
(vi)
guaranteed reinvestment agreements issued by any bank,
insurance company or
other corporation and
receiving
the highest
short-term
debt rating of each Rating
Agency and containing,
at the time of the issuance of
such agreements, such terms and conditions as will not
result in the
downgrading or withdrawal of the rating
then assigned to the
Certificates
by either Rating
Agency;
(vii) repurchase
obligations
with respect to any security
described in clauses
(i) and (ii)
above, in either
case entered into with
a depository
institution
or
trust company
(acting as principal) described in
clause (iv) above;
(viii) securities
(other
than stripped bonds, stripped
coupons or instruments
sold at a purchase price in
excess of 115% of the
face amount
thereof) bearing
interest or
sold at a discount issued by any
corporation
incorporated under the laws of the United
States or any state thereof which, at the time of such
investment, have one
of the two highest
ratings of
each Rating
Agency (except if the Rating Agency is
Moody's or S&P,
such rating shall be the highest
commercial paper
rating
of Moody's or S&P, as
applicable, for any such securities);
(ix) units
of a taxable
money-market portfolio
having the
highest rating
assigned by each Rating Agency (except
if Fitch is a Rating
Agency and has not rated the
portfolio, the highest rating assigned by Moody's) and
restricted to obligations issued or guaranteed by the
United States of America or entities whose obligations
are backed by the full
faith and credit of the United
States of
America
and repurchase agreements
collateralized by such obligations; and
(x)
such other investments
bearing interest or
sold at a
discount acceptable to
each Rating Agency as will not
result in the
downgrading or withdrawal of the rating
then assigned to the
Certificates
by either Rating
Agency, as evidenced
by a signed writing delivered by
each Rating Agency;
provided that no such instrument shall be a Permitted Investment if such
instrument evidences the right to receive
interest only payments with respect to
the obligations underlying such
instrument.
25
<PAGE>
Permitted Transferee:
Any person other than (i) the United States, any
State or political subdivision thereof, or any agency
or instrumentality of any
of the foregoing, (ii) a foreign
government,
International
Organization or any
agency or instrumentality of either of the foregoing, (iii) an organization
(except certain farmers' cooperatives described in section 521 of the Code)
which is exempt from tax imposed by Chapter 1 of the Code
(including
the tax
imposed by section 511 of the Code on
unrelated business
taxable income) on any
excess inclusions (as defined in section
860E(c)(l) of the Code) with respect to
any Residual Certificate, (iv) rural electric and telephone cooperatives
described in section 1381(a)(2)(C) of the Code, (v) an "electing large
partnership" as defined in section 775 of the Code, (vi) a Person that is not
(a) a citizen or resident of the United
States, (b) a corporation, partnership,
or other entity created or organized in or under
the laws of the United States,
any state thereof or the District of
Columbia, (c) an
estate whose income from
sources without the United States is includible in gross income for United
States federal income tax purposes
regardless of its connection with the conduct
of a trade or business within the United
States or (d) a trust if a court within
the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the
administration of the trust and one or more United States persons have the
authority to control all substantial
decisions of the
trust, unless such Person
has furnished the transferor and the Trustee with a duly
completed Internal
Revenue Service Form W-8ECI or any
applicable
successor form, and (vii) any
other Person so designated by the Depositor based upon an Opinion of
Counsel
that the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate
to such
Person may cause any REMIC created hereunder to fail to qualify as a REMIC
at
any time that the Certificates are outstanding;
provided, however, that if a
person is classified as a partnership
under the Code, such
person shall only be
a Permitted Transferee if all of its beneficial owners are described in
subclauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) of clause
(vi) and the governing
documents of
such person prohibits a transfer of any interest in such person to any
person
described in clause (vi). The terms "United
States," "State" and
"International
Organization" shall have the meanings set forth in section 7701
of the Code or
successor provisions. A corporation will
not be treated as an instrumentality of
the United States or of any State or
political subdivision thereof for these
purposes if all of its activities are subject to tax and,
with the exception of
the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation,
a majority of its board of directors
is not selected by such government
unit.
Person: Any
individual,
corporation,
partnership,
joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government, or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
Physical Certificates:
As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Planned Principal Classes: Not applicable.
PO Percentage: (a) With respect to Pool I, the Class I-A-PO
Percentage,
and (b) with respect to Pool II, the Class
II-A-PO Percentage.
Pool I: The aggregate of the Mortgage Loans identified on the Mortgage
Loan Schedule as being included in Pool
I.
Pool II: The aggregate of the Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage
Loan Schedule as being included in Pool
II.
Pool III: The aggregate of the Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule as being included in
Pool III.
Pool Principal
Balance: For each
Mortgage Pool,
with respect to
any
Distribution Date, the aggregate of the Stated Principal Balances of the
Mortgage Loans in such Mortgage Pool which
were Outstanding
Mortgage Loans on
the Due Date in the month preceding the
month of such Distribution Date, and for
the first Distribution Date, as of the Closing Date, less any Principal
Prepayments received on or after such Due Date and distributed to
Certificateholders on the prior
Distribution Date.
26
<PAGE>
Prepayment Interest Excess: As to any Principal Prepayment received by
the Master Servicer from the first day
through the fifteenth day of any calendar
month (other than the calendar month in which the Cut-off
Date occurs), all
amounts paid by the related Mortgagor in respect of interest
on such Principal
Prepayment. All Prepayment Interest Excess
shall be paid to the Master Servicer
as additional master servicing
compensation.
Prepayment Interest
Shortfall:
As to any Distribution
Date, Mortgage
Loan and Principal Prepayment received (a) during the
period from the sixteenth
day of the month preceding the month of
such Distribution Date
(or, in the case
of the first Distribution Date, from the Cut-off Date)
through the last day of
such month, in the case of a Principal
Prepayment
in Full, or (b) during the
month preceding the month of such
Distribution
Date, in the case of a
partial
Principal Prepayment, the amount, if any, by which one
month's interest at the
related Adjusted Mortgage Rate on such
Principal Prepayment
exceeds the amount
of interest actually paid by the Mortgagor in
connection
with such Principal
Prepayment.
Prepayment Period:
(a) With respect to
any Principal
Prepayments in
Full and any Distribution Date, the period from the
sixteenth day of the month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date (or, in the case of the first
Distribution Date, from the Cut-off Date)
through the fifteenth day of the month
of such Distribution Date, and (b) with respect to any other Principal
Prepayments and any Distribution Date, the month preceding the month of such
Distribution Date.
Primary Insurance
Policy: Each policy of primary
mortgage guaranty
insurance or any replacement policy
therefor with respect to any Mortgage Loan.
Principal Only Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Principal Prepayment:
Any payment of
principal by a Mortgagor on a
Mortgage Loan that is received in advance
of its scheduled Due
Date and is not
accompanied by an amount representing scheduled interest due on any date or
dates in any month or months subsequent to the month of prepayment. Partial
Principal Prepayments shall be applied by
the Master Servicer in accordance with
the terms of the related Mortgage Note.
Principal Prepayment
in Full: Any Principal Prepayment made by a
Mortgagor of the entire principal balance
of a Mortgage Loan.
Private Certificates:
As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Proprietary Lease:
With respect to any Cooperative
Unit, a lease or
occupancy agreement between a Cooperative Corporation and a holder of
related
Coop Shares.
PUD: Planned Unit
Development.
Purchase Price:
With respect to any Mortgage Loan required to be
purchased by the Seller pursuant to Section 2.2 or 2.3
hereof or purchased
at
the option of the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 3.11, an
amount equal to
the sum of (i) 100% of the unpaid principal
balance of the
Mortgage Loan on the
date of such purchase, (ii) accrued interest thereon at
the applicable Mortgage
Rate (or at the applicable Adjusted
Mortgage Rate if the purchaser is the Master
Servicer) from the date through which
interest was last paid by the Mortgagor to
the Due Date in the month in which the
Purchase Price is to
be distributed
to
Certificateholders, and (iii) any costs and
damages incurred by the Trust in
connection with the noncompliance of such Mortgage Loan with any
specifically
applicable predatory or abusive lending
law.
27
<PAGE>
Qualified Insurer: A mortgage guaranty insurance company duly
qualified
as such under the laws of the state of its
principal place of
business and each
state having jurisdiction over such insurer in connection with the insurance
policy issued by such insurer, duly authorized and licensed in such states to
transact a mortgage guaranty insurance business in such states
and to write the
insurance provided by the insurance policy issued by it, approved as a
FNMA-approved mortgage insurer and having a claims paying
ability rating of at
least "AA" or equivalent rating by a
nationally recognized
statistical
rating
organization. Any replacement insurer with
respect to a Mortgage Loan must have
at least as high a claims paying
ability rating as the insurer it replaces
had
on the Closing Date.
Rating Agency: Each of the Rating Agencies specified in the
Preliminary
Statement. If any such organization or a successor is no longer in
existence,
"Rating Agency" shall be such nationally recognized statistical rating
organization, or other comparable Person, as is designated by the
Depositor,
notice of which designation shall be given
to the Trustee.
References herein to
a given rating category of a Rating Agency shall mean such rating category
without giving effect to any modifiers.
Realized Loss: With respect to each Liquidated Mortgage Loan, an
amount
(not less than zero or more than the Stated
Principal Balance of the Mortgage
Loan) as of the date of such liquidation, equal to (i) the Stated Principal
Balance of the Liquidated Mortgage Loan as
of the date of such liquidation, plus
(ii) interest at the Adjusted
Net Mortgage
Rate from the Due Date
as to which
interest was last paid or advanced (and not
reimbursed) to Certificateholders up
to the Due Date in the month in which
Liquidation
Proceeds are required to be
distributed on the Stated Principal Balance of such Liquidated Mortgage Loan
from time to time, minus (iii) any Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds
and/or Unanticipated Recoveries received during the month in which such
liquidation occurred (or during the calendar month preceding the related
Distribution Date, as applicable), to the extent applied as recoveries of
interest at the Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate and to principal of the
Liquidated
Mortgage Loan. With respect to each Mortgage Loan, other than a Liquidated
Mortgage Loan, which has become the subject of a
Deficient Valuation,
if the
principal amount due under the related Mortgage Note has been reduced, the
difference between the principal balance of the Mortgage Loan outstanding
immediately prior to such Deficient
Valuation and the
principal balance of the
Mortgage Loan as reduced by the Deficient
Valuation.
Recognition Agreement:
With respect to any Cooperative Loan, an
agreement between the Cooperative Corporation and the originator of such
Mortgage Loan which establishes the rights
of such originator in the Cooperative
Property.
Record Date:
With respect to any Distribution Date, the close of
business on the last Business Day of the
month preceding the month in which such
Distribution Date occurs.
28
<PAGE>
Reference Bank: A leading bank with an established place of
business in
London engaged in transactions in Eurodollar deposits in the international
Eurocurrency market, not controlled by, or under the common
control with, the
Trustee.
Refinancing Mortgage
Loan: Any Mortgage Loan originated in connection
with the refinancing of an existing
mortgage loan.
Regular Certificates:
As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Relief Act:
The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act or any similar
state or local legislation or
regulations.
Relief Act Reductions:
With respect to any
Distribution Date and
any
Mortgage Loan as to which there has been a
reduction in the
amount of interest
collectible thereon for the most recently
ended calendar month as a result of
the application of the Relief Act, the amount, if any, by which interest
collectible on such Mortgage Loan for the most
recently ended calendar month is
less than interest accrued thereon for such
month pursuant to the Mortgage Note.
REMIC: A "real estate mortgage investment conduit" within the meaning
of section 860D of the Code.
REMIC Change of Law:
Any proposed, temporary or final regulation,
revenue ruling, revenue procedure or other official announcement or
interpretation relating to REMICs and the REMIC
Provisions
issued after the
Closing Date.
REMIC Pool: Either of the Lower REMIC, Middle REMIC or Upper
REMIC.
REMIC Provisions:
Provisions of the federal income tax law relating to
real estate mortgage investment conduits,
which appear at
sections 860A through
860G of Subchapter M of Chapter 1 of the Code,
and related provisions, and
regulations promulgated thereunder,
as the foregoing may
be in effect from time
to time as well as provisions of applicable
state laws.
REO Property: A
Mortgaged Property
acquired by the Trust Fund through
foreclosure or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure in connection with a defaulted
Mortgage Loan.
Request for Release:
The Request for
Release submitted by
the Master
Servicer to the Trustee, substantially in the form of Exhibits L and M, as
appropriate.
Required Coupon: With respect to Pool I, 5.750% per annum, with
respect
to Pool II, 5.250% per annum, and with
respect to Pool III, 5.750% per annum.
Required Insurance
Policy: With respect to any Mortgage
Loan, any
insurance policy that is required to be
maintained from time to time under this
Agreement.
Required Recordation
States: The states of Florida, Maryland and
Mississippi.
Residual Certificates:
As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
29
<PAGE>
Responsible Officer:
When used with respect
to the Trustee, any
Vice
President, any Assistant Vice President,
the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary,
any Trust Officer or any other officer of the Trustee
customarily
performing
functions similar to those performed by any
of the above designated officers and
having direct responsibility for the administration of this
Agreement and also
to whom, with respect to a particular
matter, such matter is referred because of
such officer's knowledge of and familiarity
with the particular subject.
Retail/Lottery Certificates: Not applicable.
Retained Yield: As to each Mortgage Loan and any Distribution Date,
(i)
an amount payable to First Horizon Home Loan Corporation out of each full
payment of interest received on such Mortgage Loan and
equal to one-twelfth
of
the Retained Yield Rate multiplied by the Stated Principal Balance of such
Mortgage Loan as of the Due Date in the
month of such
Distribution Date
(prior
to giving effect to any Scheduled Payments
due on such Mortgage Loan on such Due
Date) and (ii) each prepayment penalty
received, if any.
Retained Yield Rate:
For any Non-Discount
Mortgage Loan, a per
annum
rate equal to the excess of (a) the applicable Mortgage Rate over (b) the
Required Coupon. For any Discount Mortgage
Loan, 0%.
RL Interest: The REMIC
residual interest, within the meaning of the
REMIC Provisions, issued by the Lower REMIC,
which shall be
represented by the
Class I-A-R Certificate.
RM
Interest: The REMIC
residual interest, within the meaning of the
REMIC Provisions, issued by the Middle REMIC, which
shall be represented by the
Class I-A-R Certificate.
RU Interest: The REMIC
residual interest, within the meaning of the
REMIC Provisions, issued by the Upper REMIC,
which shall be
represented by the
Class I-A-R Certificate.
Scheduled Balances:
Not applicable.
Scheduled Certificates: Not applicable.
Scheduled Payment: The scheduled monthly payment on a Mortgage Loan
due
on any Due Date allocable to principal
and/or interest on such Mortgage Loan
which, unless otherwise specified herein,
shall give effect to
any related Debt
Service Reduction and any Deficient Valuation that affects the amount of the
monthly payment due on such Mortgage
Loan.
Securities Act: The
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Security
Agreement: The
security agreement with respect to a
Cooperative Loan.
Seller: First Horizon Home Loan Corporation, a Kansas corporation,
and
its successors and assigns, in its capacity as seller of the Mortgage
Loans
pursuant to the MLPA.
Senior Certificates:
As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
30
<PAGE>
Senior Final
Distribution
Date: For each Certificate Group, the
Distribution Date on which the Class Certificate Balance of each Class of
related Senior Certificates has been
reduced to zero.
Senior
Mezzanine Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Senior Optimal Principal Amount: As to a Mortgage Pool and with
respect
to each Distribution Date, an amount equal
to the sum of:
(1) the related Senior
Percentage of the
applicable
Non-PO
Percentage of all Scheduled Payments of principal due on each
Mortgage Loan in
such Mortgage Pool on the first day of the
month in which the Distribution Date
occurs, as specified in the amortization
schedule at the time applicable thereto
after adjustment for previous principal
prepayments and the principal portion of
Debt Service Reductions after the Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount has been
reduced to zero, but before any adjustment to such amortization schedule by
reason of any other bankruptcy or similar proceeding or any moratorium or
similar waiver or grace period;
(2) the related Senior Prepayment Percentage of the applicable
Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal
Balance of each Mortgage Loan in such
Mortgage Pool which was the subject of a
Principal Prepayment
in Full received
by the Master Servicer during the
applicable Prepayment Period;
(3) the related Senior Prepayment Percentage of the applicable
Non-PO Percentage of (a) all partial
Principal Prepayments in respect of each
Mortgage Loan in such Mortgage Pool
received during the
applicable
Prepayment
Period and (b) all Unanticipated
Recoveries in respect
of each Mortgage Loan in
such Mortgage Pool received during the calendar month preceding such
Distribution Date;
(4) the lesser of:
(a) the related
Senior Prepayment
Percentage of the sum
of
(x) the applicable
Non-PO Percentage of the Liquidation
Proceeds allocable to principal on each Mortgage Loan in
such Mortgage
Pool which became a
Liquidated
Mortgage
Loan during the related Prepayment Period, other than
Mortgage Loans
described in clause (y), and (y) the
applicable Non-PO Percentage of the principal balance of
each Mortgage
Loan in such Mortgage Pool that was
purchased by a
private mortgage insurer during the
related Prepayment
Period as an alternative to paying a
claim under the related Insurance Policy; and
(b) (i) the
related Senior
Percentage of the sum of (x) the
applicable Non-PO
Percentage
of the Stated
Principal
Balance of each
Mortgage Loan in such Mortgage Pool
which became a
Liquidated
Mortgage Loan during the
related Prepayment
Period, other than Mortgage Loans
described in clause (y), and (y) the applicable Non-PO
Percentage of the
Stated Principal Balance of each
Mortgage Loan in such
Mortgage Pool that was
purchased
by a private mortgage insurer during the related
Prepayment Period as
an alternative
to paying a claim
under the related Insurance Policy minus (ii) the
applicable Non-PO
Percentage
of the related Senior
Percentage of the
principal portion of the related
Senior Percentage
of the principal portion of Excess
Losses (other than
Debt Service
Reductions)
for such
Mortgage Pool during the related Prepayment Period; and
31
<PAGE>
(5) the related Senior Prepayment Percentage of the sum of (a)
the applicable Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of each
Mortgage Loan in such Mortgage Pool which was repurchased by the seller in
connection with such Distribution
Date and (b) the
difference, if any,
between
the applicable Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of each
Mortgage Loan in such Mortgage Pool that
has been replaced by the seller with a
Substitute Mortgage Loan pursuant to this Agreement in connection with such
Distribution Date and the Stated Principal
Balance of such
Substitute
Mortgage
Loan.
Senior Percentage:
On any Distribution
Date for a Certificate
Group,
the lesser of 100% and the percentage (carried to six places rounded up)
obtained by dividing the aggregate Class
Certificate Balances
of all Classes of
Senior Certificates of such Certificate Group (other than the Notional
Amount
Certificates and the Class PO Certificates) immediately preceding such
Distribution Date by the Pool Principal Balance of the related
Mortgage Pool
(excluding the aggregate of the applicable PO Percentage of the principal
balance of each Discount Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool included
therein) for the immediately preceding
Distribution Date.
Senior Prepayment Percentage: On any Distribution Date occurring
during
the periods set forth below, and as to each Certificate Group, the Senior
Prepayment Percentages, described
below:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Period (Dates Inclusive) Senior
Prepayment Percentage
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
July 2005 - June 2010
100%
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
July 2010 - June 2011
the related Senior Percentage plus 70% of the
related Subordinated Percentage
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
July 2011 - June 2012
the related Senior Percentage plus 60% of the
related Subordinated Percentage
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
July 2012 - June 2013
the related Senior Percentage plus 40% of the
related Subordinated Percentage
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
July 2013 - June 2014
the related Senior Percentage plus 20% of the
related Subordinated Percentage
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
July 2014 and thereafter the
related Senior Percentage
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Notwithstanding
the foregoing,
if the Senior Percentage for a
Certificate Group on any Distribution Date
exceeds the initial Senior Percentage
for that Certificate Group, the Senior Prepayment Percentage for each
Certificate Group for that Distribution
Date will equal 100%.
In addition, no
reduction of the Senior Prepayment Percentage for any
Certificate Group below the level in effect for the
most recent prior
period
specified in the table above shall be
effective on any Distribution Date unless
both of the following step down conditions are satisfied with respect to
each
Mortgage Pool, as of the last day of the
month preceding such Distribution Date:
32
<PAGE>
(1) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of Mortgage Loans
in a Mortgage Pool delinquent 60 days or more
(including
for this purpose
any
Mortgage Loans in foreclosure or subject to
bankruptcy proceedings
and Mortgage
Loans with respect to which the related Mortgaged Property, including REO
Property, has been acquired by the Trust) does not exceed 50% of the
related
Group Subordinate Amount as of such date;
and
(2) cumulative
Realized Losses in each Mortgage Pool do
not
exceed:
(a) 30% of the related
Original Group Subordinate Amount
if such Distribution Date occurs between and
including July 2010 and June 2011;
(b) 35% of the related
Original Group Subordinate Amount
if such Distribution Date occurs between and
including July 2011 and June 2012;
(c) 40% of the related
Original Group Subordinate Amount
if such Distribution Date occurs between and
including July 2012 and June 2013;
(d) 45% of the related
Original Group Subordinate Amount
if such Distribution Date occurs between and
including July 2013 and June 2014; and
(e) 50% of the related
Original Group Subordinate Amount
if such Distribution
Date occurs during or after
July 2014.
Servicing Advances:
All customary, reasonable and necessary "out
of
pocket" costs and expenses incurred in the
performance by the Master Servicer of
its servicing obligations, including, but not limited to, the cost of
(i) the
preservation, restoration and protection of a Mortgaged Property, (ii) any
expenses reimbursable to the Master
Servicer pursuant to Section 3.11 and
any
enforcement or judicial proceedings, including foreclosures, (iii) the
management and liquidation of any REO Property and (iv)
compliance
with the
obligations under Section 3.9.
Servicing Agreement: The servicing agreement, dated as of November 26,
2002 by and between First Horizon Asset Securities Inc. and its assigns, as
owner, and First Tennessee Mortgage
Services, Inc., as servicer.
Servicing Officer:
Any officer of the
Master Servicer involved in, or
responsible for, the administration and servicing of the Mortgage
Loans whose
name and facsimile signature appear on a
list of servicing officers furnished to
the Trustee by the Master Servicer on the Closing Date pursuant to this
Agreement, as such list may from time to
time be amended.
Servicing Rights
Transfer and
Subservicing
Agreement: The
servicing
rights transfer and subservicing agreement, dated as of November 26, 2002,
by
and between First Horizon Home Loan
Corporation, as
transferor and subservicer,
and First Tennessee Mortgage Services,
Inc., as transferee and servicer.
33
<PAGE>
Special Hazard Coverage Termination Date: The date on which the
Special
Hazard Loss Coverage Amount is reduced to
zero.
Special Hazard Loss: Any Realized Loss suffered by a Mortgaged
Property
on account of direct physical loss but not including (i) any loss of a type
covered by a hazard insurance policy or a flood
insurance policy required to be
maintained with respect to such Mortgaged
Property pursuant to Section 3.9 to
the extent of the amount of such loss
covered thereby,
or (ii) any loss
caused
by or resulting from:
(1) normal wear and tear;
(2) fraud, conversion
or other dishonest act on the part of
the Trustee, the Master Servicer or any of their agents or
employees (without
regard to any portion of the loss not covered by any errors and omissions
policy);
(3) errors in design,
faulty workmanship or faulty materials,
unless the collapse of the property or a part thereof
ensues and then only
for
the ensuing loss;
(4) nuclear or
chemical reaction or nuclear radiation or
radioactive or chemical contamination, all whether controlled or
uncontrolled,
and whether such loss be direct or
indirect, proximate or
remote or be in whole
or in part caused by, contributed to or aggravated by a peril covered by the
definition of the term "Special Hazard
Loss";
(5) hostile
or warlike action in time of peace and war,
including action in hindering, combating or defending against an actual,
impending or expected attack:
(i) by any
government or sovereign power, de jure or de
facto, or by
any authority maintaining or using
military, naval or air forces;
(ii)
by military, naval or air forces; or
(iii) by
an agent of any such government, power, authority
or forces;
(6) any weapon of war
employing nuclear
fission, fusion or
other radioactive force, whether in time of
peace or war; or
(7) insurrection,
rebellion, revolution,
civil war, usurped
power or action taken by governmental authority in hindering, combating or
defending against such an occurrence,
seizure or destruction under quarantine or
customs regulations, confiscation by order
of any government or public authority
or risks of contraband or illegal
transportation or trade.
Special Hazard Loss Coverage Amount: Upon the initial issuance of
the
Certificates, $4,650,614. As of any Distribution Date, the
Special Hazard Loss
Coverage Amount will equal the greater
of
34
<PAGE>
(a) 1.00% (or if greater than 1.00%, the highest percentage of
Mortgage Loans by principal balance secured by Mortgaged Properties in any
single California zip code) of the outstanding principal balance of all the
Mortgage Loans as of the related
Determination Date; and
(b) twice the
outstanding principal
balance of the
Mortgage
Loan which has the largest outstanding principal balance as of the related
Determination Date,
less, in each case, the aggregate amount of Special Hazard Losses that would
have been previously allocated to the Subordinated
Certificates in the
absence
of the Loss Allocation Limitation. As of any Distribution Date on or
after the
Cross-over Date, the Special Hazard Loss
Coverage Amount will be zero.
Special Hazard Mortgage Loan: A Liquidated Mortgage Loan as to which a
Special Hazard Loss has occurred.
S&P: Standard
& Poor's
Corporation,
a division
of The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc. If S&P is designated as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary
Statement, for purposes of Section 11.5(b)
the address for notices to S&P shall
be Standard & Poor's, 55 Water Street, 41st Floor, New York, New York 10041,
Attention: Mortgage Surveillance Monitoring, or such other address as S&P
may
hereafter furnish to the Depositor and the
Master Servicer.
Startup Day: The
Closing Date.
Stated Principal
Balance: As to any Mortgage Loan and Due
Date, the
unpaid principal balance of such Mortgage Loan as
of such Due Date as specified
in the amortization schedule at the time
relating thereto (before any adjustment
to such amortization schedule by reason of any
moratorium or similar waiver or
grace period) after giving effect to any
previous partial Principal Prepayments
and Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal
(other than with respect to any
Liquidated Mortgage Loan) and to the payment of
principal due on such Due Date
and irrespective of any delinquency in
payment by the related Mortgagor.
Streamlined
Documentation Mortgage
Loan: Any Mortgage Loan originated
pursuant to the Seller's Streamlined Loan
Documentation Program then in effect.
Subordinated Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Subordinated Certificate Writedown Amount: As of any Distribution
Date,
the amount by which (a) the sum of the
Class Certificate
Balances of all of the
Certificates, after giving effect to the distribution of principal and the
allocation of Realized Losses in reduction
of the Class Certificate Balances of
all of the Certificates on such
Distribution Date,
exceeds (b) the aggregate of
the Pool Principal Balances of the Mortgage Pools on
the first day of the month
of such Distribution Date less any Deficient
Valuations
occurring before
the
Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount has been
reduced to zero.
Subordinated Optimal
Principal Amount:
With respect to each
Mortgage
Pool and each Distribution Date, an amount equal to the sum of the
following
(but in no event greater than the aggregate
Class Certificate Balances of the
Subordinated Certificates immediately prior
to such Distribution Date):
35
<PAGE>
(1) the related
Subordinated
Percentage
of the applicable
Non-PO Percentage of all Scheduled Payments
of principal due on each outstanding
Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool on the first day of the month in
which the Distribution Date occurs, as
specified in the amortization schedule at
the time applicable thereto, after
adjustment for previous principal prepayments
and the principal portion of Debt Service
Reductions after the
Bankruptcy Loss
Coverage Amount has been reduced to zero, but before any adjustment to such
amortization schedule by reason of any
other bankruptcy or similar proceeding or
any moratorium or similar waiver or grace
period;
(2) the related
Subordinated
Prepayment
Percentage
of the
applicable Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal
Balance of each
Mortgage
Loan in the related Mortgage Pool which was the subject of a Principal
Prepayment in Full received by the Master
Servicer during the related Prepayment
Period;
(3) the related
Subordinated
Prepayment
Percentage
of the
applicable Non-PO Percentage of the sum of
(a) all partial Principal Prepayments
received in respect of each Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool during
the related Prepayment Period, (b) all Unanticipated Recoveries received in
respect of each Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool during the
calendar
month prior to such Distribution
Date, and (c) on the
Senior Final Distribution
Date, 100% of any related Senior Optimal Principal Amount remaining
undistributed on such date;
(4) the amount, if any, by which the sum of (a) the applicable
Non-PO Percentage of the net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal
received during the related Prepayment Period in respect of each
Liquidated
Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool, other than Mortgage
Loans described
in clause (b), and (b) the applicable
Non-PO Percentage of the principal balance
of each Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool that was purchased by a
private mortgage insurer during the related
Prepayment Period as
an alternative
to paying a claim under the related
Insurance Policy
exceeds (c) the sum of the
amounts distributable to the Senior
Certificateholders
(other than the
holders
of the Class PO Certificates) under clause (4) of the definition
of applicable
Senior Optimal Principal Amount on such
Distribution Date; and
(5) the related Subordinated Prepayment Percentage of the
sum
of (a) the applicable Non-PO Percentage of the Stated
Principal Balance of each
Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool which was
repurchased by the
seller
in connection with such Distribution Date and (b) the difference, if any,
between the applicable Non-PO Percentage of
the Stated Principal Balance of each
Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool that has been
replaced by the seller
with a Substitute Mortgage Loan pursuant to this
Agreement in
connection with
such Distribution Date and the Stated
Principal Balance of each such Substitute
Mortgage Loan.
Subordinated Percentage: For any Distribution Date and each
Certificate
Group, 100% minus the related Senior
Percentage.
36
<PAGE>
Subordinated
Prepayment Percentage:
For any Distribution
Date, 100%
minus the related Senior Prepayment
Percentage.
Subservicer: Any
person to whom the Master Servicer has contracted for
the servicing of all or a portion of the
Mortgage Loans
pursuant to Section 3.2
hereof.
Substitute Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan substituted by the Seller
for
a Deleted Mortgage Loan which must, on the date of such substitution, as
confirmed in a Request for Release,
substantially in the
form of Exhibit L, (i)
have a Stated Principal Balance, after
deduction of the principal portion of the
Scheduled Payment due in the month of
substitution,
not in excess of, and
not
more than 10% less than the Stated
Principal Balance of the Deleted Mortgage
Loan; (ii) have an Adjusted Net
Mortgage Rate not lower than the lower of
(a)
the Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of the
Deleted Mortgage Loan
or (b) 5.50% in the
case of a Deleted Mortgage Loan from Pool I
or Pool III, or 5.00% in the case of
a Deleted Mortgage Loan from Pool II,
provided that the Master Servicing Fee for
the Substitute Mortgage Loan shall be equal to or greater than that of the
Deleted Mortgage Loan; (iii) be accruing interest at a rate no lower than
and
not more than 1% per annum higher than,
that of the Deleted
Mortgage Loan; (iv)
have a Loan-to-Value Ratio no higher than
that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (v)
have a remaining term to maturity no greater than (and not more than one
year
less than that of) the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (vi) not be a Cooperative
Loan
unless the Deleted Mortgage Loan was a Cooperative Loan and (vii) comply with
each representation and warranty set forth
in Section 2.3 hereof.
Substitution
Adjustment Amount:
The meaning ascribed to such term
pursuant to Section 2.3.
Super Senior Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Support Classes: Not
Applicable.
Targeted Principal Classes: Not applicable..
Tax Matters Person:
The person
designated as "tax
matters person" in
the manner provided under Treasury regulation ss. 1.860F-4(d) and Treasury
regulation ss. 301.6231(a)(7)-1.
Initially, the Tax
Matters Person shall be the
Trustee.
Tax Matters Person
Certificate: The Class
I-A-R Certificates
with a
Denomination of $0.01.
Transfer: Any direct
or indirect
transfer or sale of any Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate.
Trust Fund: The corpus of the trust created hereunder consisting of
(i)
the Mortgage Loans and all interest and
principal received on or with respect
thereto after the Cut-off Date to the extent not
applied in computing the
Cut-off Date Principal Balance thereof; (ii) all of the Depositor's
rights as
purchaser under the MLPA; (iii) the Certificate Account and the Distribution
Account and all amounts deposited therein
pursuant to the applicable provisions
of this Agreement; (iv) property that secured a Mortgage Loan and has been
acquired by foreclosure, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure or
otherwise; and (v)
all
proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or involuntary,
of any of the
foregoing;
provided that the Trust Fund shall exclude
the Retained Yield.
37
<PAGE>
Trustee: The Bank of
New York and its
successors and, if a
successor
trustee is appointed hereunder, such
successor.
Trustee Fee: As to any Distribution Date and a Mortgage Pool, an
amount
equal to one-twelfth of the Trustee Fee
Rate multiplied by the
applicable Pool
Principal Balance with respect to such
Distribution Date.
Trustee Fee Rate: With
respect to each
Mortgage Loan,
the per annum
rate agreed upon in writing on or prior to the
Closing Date by the
Trustee and
the Depositor.
Unanticipated Recovery: As defined in Section 4.2(h).
Undercollateralization Distribution: As defined in Section 4.2(i).
Undercollateralized
Group: With respect to any Distribution Date, the
Senior Certificates of any Certificate Group (other than the Class PO
Certificates) as to which the aggregate
Certificate
Principal Balance
thereof,
after giving effect to distributions
pursuant to Section 4.2(a) on such date, is
greater than the applicable Non-PO Percentage of the Pool Principal
Balance of
the related Mortgage Pool for such
Distribution Date.
Underwriter: As
specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Underwriters'
Exemption: Prohibited
Transaction
Exemption 89-40,
as
amended (or any successor thereto), or any
substantially similar
administrative
exemption granted by the U.S. Department of
Labor.
Upper REMIC: The
segregated
pool of assets
consisting of the
Middle
REMIC Interests.
Voting Rights:
The portion of the voting rights of all of the
Certificates which is allocated to any Certificate. As of any date of
determination, (a) 98% of all Voting Rights will
be allocated among all Holders
of the Certificates, other than the Class
I-A-3 and Class I-A-R Certificates, in
proportion to their then outstanding Class
Certificate Balance;
(b) 1.0% of all
Voting Rights will be allocated to the Class I-A-3
Certificates
(such Voting
Rights to be allocated among the Holders of Certificates of such Class in
proportion to their Notional Amount);
and (c) 1.0% of all
Voting Rights will be
allocated to the Class I-A-R Certificates (such Voting Rights to be allocated
among the Holders of Certificates of such Class in accordance with their
respective Percentage Interests).
38
<PAGE>
ARTICLE II
CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS;
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 2.1
Conveyance of Mortgage Loans.
(a) The Depositor, concurrently with the execution and delivery
hereof, hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and
otherwise
conveys to the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders,
without recourse,
all the right, title and interest of the
Depositor in
and to the Trust Fund together with (i) the
Depositor's right to
(A) require the Seller to cure any breach of
a representation
or warranty made by
the Seller pursuant to
the
MLPA, or (B)
repurchase or substitute for any affected Mortgage
Loan in accordance
herewith, and (ii) all right, title and
interest of
the Depositor in, to and under the Servicing
Agreement, which right has been assigned to the Depositor
pursuant
to the MLPA.
(b) In connection with
the transfer and assignment set forth in clause
(a) above, the
Depositor has
delivered or caused to be delivered
to the Trustee or the
Custodian on its behalf (or, in the case of
the Delay
Delivery Mortgage Loans, will deliver or cause to be
delivered to the
Trustee or the
Custodian on its
behalf within
thirty (30) days
following the Closing
Date) for the benefit
of
the Certificateholders the following documents or instruments
with
respect to each Mortgage Loan so assigned:
(i) (A)
the original Mortgage Note endorsed by manual or
facsimile signature in
blank in the following form: "Pay to
the order of
________________,
without recourse," with all
intervening
endorsements
showing a complete chain of
endorsement from the
originator to the Person endorsing the
Mortgage Note (each
such endorsement
being sufficient to
transfer all
right, title and interest of the party so
endorsing, as noteholder or assignee thereof, in and to that
Mortgage Note); or
(B) with respect
to any Lost
Mortgage Note, a lost note
affidavit from the Seller stating that the original Mortgage
Note was lost or
destroyed,
together with a copy of such
Mortgage Note;
(ii) except
as provided below and for each Mortgage Loan,
the original recorded
Mortgage or a copy of
such Mortgage
certified by the Seller as being a true and complete copy of
the Mortgage, and in
the case of each MERS
Mortgage Loan,
the presence
of the MIN of the
Mortgage Loans and either
language indicating
that the Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan if
the Mortgage Loan is a
MOM Loan or if the Mortgage Loan was
not a MOM Loan at origination, the original Mortgage and the
assignment thereof
to MERS, with evidence of recording
indicated thereon;
(iii) in the
case of each Mortgage Loan, a duly executed
assignment of the
Mortgage, or a copy of such assignment
certified by the Seller as being a true and complete copy of
the assignment, in blank (which may be included in a blanket
assignment or
assignments),
together
with, except as
provided below, all interim recorded assignments, or copies
of such interim assignments certified by the Seller as being
true and complete copies of the interim assignments, of such
Mortgage (each
such assignment, when duly and validly
completed, to be in recordable form and sufficient to effect
the assignment
of and transfer to the assignee thereof,
under the Mortgage to which the assignment relates);
provided that, if the related Mortgage has not been returned
from the applicable public recording office, such assignment
of the Mortgage may exclude the information to be provided
by the recording office;
39
<PAGE>
(iv) the original or copies of each assumption, modification,
written assurance or substitution agreement, if any;
(v) either the original or
duplicate original
title policy, or
a copy of such title policy certified by the Seller as being
a true and complete copy of the title policy, (including all
riders thereto)
with respect to the related Mortgaged
Property, if
available,
provided that the title policy
(including all riders
thereto) will be delivered as soon as
it becomes
available,
and if the title policy is not
available, and to the extent required pursuant to the second
paragraph below or
otherwise in connection with the rating
of the Certificates, a
written commitment or interim binder
&nbs