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 October 1,
2006
_____________________________________________________
FIRST HORIZON ALTERNATIVE MORTGAGE
SECURITIES TRUST 2006-FA7
MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES,
SERIES 2006-FA7
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Page
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ARTICLE
I DEFINITIONS
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5
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ARTICLE
II CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE LOANS; REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
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38
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SECTION
2.1 Conveyance of Mortgage Loans.
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38
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SECTION
2.2 Acceptance by Trustee of the Mortgage Loans.
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42
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SECTION
2.3 Representations and Warranties of the Master Servicer;
Covenants of the Seller.
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44
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SECTION
2.4 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor as to the
Mortgage Loans.
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47
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SECTION
2.5 Delivery of Opinion of Counsel in Connection with
Substitutions.
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47
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SECTION
2.6 Execution and Delivery of Certificates.
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48
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SECTION
2.7 REMIC Matters.
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48
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SECTION
2.8 Covenants of the Master Servicer.
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50
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ARTICLE
III ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE
LOANS
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50
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SECTION
3.1 Master Servicer to Service Mortgage Loans.
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50
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SECTION
3.2 Subservicing; Enforcement of the Obligations of
Servicers.
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51
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SECTION
3.3 Rights of the Depositor and the Trustee in Respect of the
Master Servicer.
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52
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SECTION
3.4 Trustee to Act as Master Servicer.
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52
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SECTION
3.5 Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Certificate Account;
Distribution Account.
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53
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SECTION
3.6 Collection of Taxes, Assessments and Similar Items; Escrow
Accounts.
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56
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SECTION
3.7 Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding the
Mortgage Loans.
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56
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SECTION
3.8 Permitted Withdrawals from the Certificate Account and
Distribution Account.
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57
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SECTION
3.9 Maintenance of Hazard Insurance; Maintenance of Primary
Insurance Policies.
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58
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SECTION
3.10 Enforcement of Due-on-Sale Clauses; Assumption
Agreements.
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60
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SECTION
3.11 Realization Upon Defaulted Mortgage Loans; Repurchase of
Certain Mortgage Loans.
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61
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SECTION
3.12 Trustee to Cooperate; Release of Mortgage
Files.
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64
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SECTION
3.13 Documents Records and Funds in Possession of Master Servicer
to be Held for the Trustee.
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64
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SECTION
3.14 Master Servicing Compensation.
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65
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SECTION
3.15 Access to Certain Documentation.
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65
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SECTION
3.16 Annual Statement as to Compliance.
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66
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SECTION
3.17 Errors and Omissions Insurance; Fidelity
Bonds.
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66
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ARTICLE
IV DISTRIBUTIONS AND ADVANCES BY THE MASTER
SERVICER
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67
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67
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SECTION
4.2 Priorities of Distribution.
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67
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SECTION
4.3 Method of Distribution.
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72
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SECTION
4.4 Allocation of Losses.
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73
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75
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SECTION
4.6 Monthly Statements to Certificateholders.
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75
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SECTION
4.7 Determination of Pass-Through Rates for LIBOR
Certificates.
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77
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ARTICLE
V THE CERTIFICATES
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79
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SECTION
5.1 The Certificates.
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79
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SECTION
5.2 Certificate Register; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates.
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80
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SECTION
5.3 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Certificates.
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87
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SECTION
5.4 Persons Deemed Owners.
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87
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SECTION
5.5 Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and
Addresses.
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87
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SECTION
5.6 Maintenance of Office or Agency.
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87
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ARTICLE
VI THE DEPOSITOR AND THE MASTER SERVICER
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88
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SECTION
6.1 Respective Liabilities of the Depositor and the Master
Servicer.
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88
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SECTION
6.2 Merger or Consolidation of the Depositor or the Master
Servicer.
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88
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SECTION
6.3 Limitation on Liability of the Depositor, the Master Servicer
and Others.
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88
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SECTION
6.4 Limitation on Resignation of Master Servicer.
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89
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ARTICLE
VII DEFAULT
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89
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SECTION
7.1 Events of Default.
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89
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SECTION
7.2 Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor.
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91
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SECTION
7.3 Notification to Certificateholders.
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93
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ARTICLE
VIII CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
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94
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SECTION
8.1 Duties of Trustee.
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94
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SECTION
8.2 Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee.
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95
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SECTION
8.3 Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage
Loans.
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97
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SECTION
8.4 Trustee May Own Certificates.
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97
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SECTION
8.5 Trustee’s Fees and Expenses.
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97
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SECTION
8.6 Eligibility Requirements for Trustee.
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98
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SECTION
8.7 Resignation and Removal of Trustee.
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98
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SECTION
8.8 Successor Trustee.
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99
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SECTION
8.9 Merger or Consolidation of Trustee.
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100
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SECTION
8.10 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate
Trustee.
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100
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SECTION
8.11 Tax Matters.
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102
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ARTICLE
IX TERMINATION
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103
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SECTION
9.1 Termination upon Liquidation or Purchase of all Mortgage
Loans.
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103
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SECTION
9.2 Final Distribution on the Certificates.
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104
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SECTION
9.3 Additional Termination Requirements.
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105
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ARTICLE
X EXCHANGE ACT REPORTING
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106
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SECTION
10.1 Filing Obligations.
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106
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SECTION
10.2 Form 10-D Filings.
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106
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SECTION
10.3 Form 8-K Filings.
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107
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SECTION
10.4 Form 10-K Filings.
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108
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SECTION
10.5 Sarbanes-Oxley Certification.
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108
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SECTION
10.6 Form 15 Filing.
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109
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SECTION
10.7 Report on Assessment of Compliance and
Attestation.
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109
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SECTION
10.8 Use of Subservicers and Subcontractors.
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110
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111
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ARTICLE
XI MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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112
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112
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SECTION
11.2 Recordation of Agreement; Counterparts.
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113
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SECTION
11.3 Governing Law.
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113
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SECTION
11.4 Intention of Parties.
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114
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114
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SECTION
11.6 Severability of Provisions.
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115
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115
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SECTION
11.8 Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders.
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115
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SECTION
11.9 Inspection and Audit Rights.
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116
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SECTION
11.10 Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid.
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117
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SECTION
11.11 Limitations on Actions; No Proceedings.
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117
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SECTION
11.12 Acknowledgment of Seller.
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117
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SCHEDULES
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Schedule I:
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Mortgage Loan Schedule
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S-I-1
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Schedule II:
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Representations and Warranties of the Master
Servicer
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S-II-1
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Schedule III:
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Form of
Monthly Master Servicer Report
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S-III-1
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EXHIBITS
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Exhibit
A-1:
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Form of
Senior Certificate
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A-1-1
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Exhibit
A-2:
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Form of
Senior Certificate/Class A-PO Certificate
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A-2-1
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Exhibit
B:
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Form of
Subordinated Certificate
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B-1
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Exhibit
C:
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Form of
Residual Certificate
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C-1
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Exhibit
D:
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Form of
Reverse of Certificates
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D-1
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Exhibit
E:
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Form of
Initial Certification
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E-1
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Exhibit
F:
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Form of
Delay Delivery Certification
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F-1
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Exhibit
G:
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Form of
Subsequent Certification of Custodian
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G-1
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Exhibit
H:
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Transfer Affidavit
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H-1
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Exhibit
I:
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Form of
Transferor Certificate
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I-1
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Exhibit
J:
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Form of
Investment Letter [Non-Rule 144A]
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J-1
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Exhibit
K:
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Form of
Rule 144A Letter
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K-1
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Exhibit
L:
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Request
for Release (for Trustee)
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L-1
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Exhibit
M:
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Request
for Release (Mortgage Loan)
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M-1
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Exhibit
N-1:
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Form of
Annual Certification (Subservicer)
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N-1-1
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Exhibit
N-2:
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Form of
Annual Certification (Trustee)
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N-2-1
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Exhibit
O:
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Form of
Servicing Criteria to be Addressed in Assessment of
Compliance
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O-1
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Exhibit
P:
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List of
Item 1119 Parties
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P-1
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Exhibit
Q:
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Form of
Sarbanes-Oxley Certification
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Q-1
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Exhibit
R:
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Principal Balance Schedules
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R-1
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THIS
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of October 1, 2006, 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 two separate REMICs,
each having assets as provided herein. 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 A-R Certificates
will represent the residual interests in the Lower 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):
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Blank]
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Class Designation
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Initial Class
Certificate Balance / Notional
Amount
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Pass-Through Rate
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Minimum Denominations
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Final Scheduled Distribution Date
(1)
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Class A-1
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$48,304,000.00
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5.7500%
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$25,000
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December 2036
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Class A-2
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$14,405,000.00
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5.7500%
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$25,000
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December 2036
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Class A-3
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$6,850,000.00
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6.2500%
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$25,000
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December 2036
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Class A-4
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$20,654,000.00
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6.2500%
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$25,000
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December 2036
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Class A-5
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$41,806,000.00
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(2)
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$25,000
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December 2036
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Class A-6
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$69,300,000.00
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6.2500%
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$25,000
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December 2036
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Class A-7
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$3,531,000.00
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6.2500%
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$25,000
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December 2036
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Class A-8
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$1,690,000.00
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6.2500%
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$25,000
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December 2036
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Class A-9
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$41,806,000.00 (3)
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(4)
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$500,000
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December 2036
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Class A-PO
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$179,227.49
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(5)
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$25,000
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December 2036
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Class A-R
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$100.00
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6.2500%
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$100
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December 2036
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Class B-1
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$4,667,000.00
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6.2500%
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$100,000
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December 2036
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Class B-2
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$1,953,000.00
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6.2500%
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$100,000
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December 2036
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Class B-3
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$1,411,000.00
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6.2500%
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$100,000
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December 2036
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Class B-4
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$977,000.00
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6.2500%
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$100,000
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December 2036
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Class B-5
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$651,000.00
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6.2500%
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$100,000
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December 2036
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Class B-6
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$651,472.19
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6.2500%
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$100,000
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December 2036
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(1) The
actual final payment on the Certificates could occur earlier or
later than the Final Scheduled Distribution Date.
(2) The
Pass-Through Rate with respect to any Distribution Date for the
Class A-5 Certificates is the per annum rate equal to (a) 5.600%
with respect to the first Distribution Date, and (b) thereafter,
LIBOR plus 0.3000%, subject to a maximum rate of 7.0000% and a
minimum rate of 0.3000%.
(3) The
Class A-9 Certificates are notional amount
certificates. The
notional amount of the Class A-9 Certificates on any Distribution
Date will equal the Class Certificate Balance of the Class A-5
Certificates for such Distribution Date.
(4) The
Pass-Through Rate with respect to any Distribution Date for the
Class A-9 Certificates is the per annum rate equal to (a) 1.400%
with respect to the first Distribution Date, and (b) thereafter,
6.7000% minus LIBOR, subject to a maximum rate of 6.7000% and a
minimum rate of 0.0000%.
(5) The
Class A-PO Certificates are Principal Only Certificates and will
not accrue interest.
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Accretion Directed
Certificates
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The
Class A-6 and Class A-7 Certificates.
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Accrual
Certificates
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The
Class A-7 and Class A-8 Certificates.
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Accrual
Components
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None.
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Book-Entry Certificates
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All
Classes of Certificates other than the Physical
Certificates.
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COFI
Certificates
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None.
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Component Certificates
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None.
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Components
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None.
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Delay
Certificates
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All
interest-bearing Classes of Certificates other than the Non-Delay
Certificates, if any.
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ERISA-Restricted Certificates
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The
Residual Certificates, Private Certificates and Certificates of any
Class that no longer satisfy the applicable rating requirement of
the Underwriters’ Exemption.
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ERISA
Restricted Yield Supplemented Certificates
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None.
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Floating Rate Certificates
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The
Class A-5 Certificates.
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Inverse
Floating Rate Certificates
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The
Class A-9 Certificates.
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LIBOR
Certificates
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The
Class A-5 and Class A-9 Certificates.
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NAS
Certificates
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The
Class A-4 Certificates.
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Non-Delay Certificates
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The
LIBOR Certificates.
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Notional Amount Certificates
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The
Class A-9 Certificates.
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Offered
Certificates
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All
Classes of Certificates other than the Private
Certificates.
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Physical Certificates
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The
Private Certificates and the Residual
Certificates.
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Planned
Principal Classes
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The
Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-5 and Class A-9
Certificates.
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Principal Only Certificates
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The
Class A-PO Certificates.
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Private
Certificates
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The
Class A-PO, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6
Certificates.
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Rating
Agencies
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Fitch
and S&P; except for the purposes of the Class B-3, and Class
B-4 Certificates, Fitch shall be the sole Rating Agency. The Class
B-6 Certificates will not be rated.
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Regular
Certificates
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All
Classes of Certificates, other than the Residual
Certificates.
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Residual Certificates
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The
Class A-R Certificates.
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Retail/Lottery Certificates
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None.
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Scheduled Certificates
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None.
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Senior
Certificates
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The
Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-6,
Class A-7, Class A-8, Class A-9, Class A-PO and Class A-R
Certificates.
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Senior
Mezzanine Certificates
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None.
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Subordinated Certificates
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The
Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6
Certificates.
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Super
Senior Certificates
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None.
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Support
Classes
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The
Class A-6, Class A-7 and Class A-8 Certificates.
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Targeted Principal Classes
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The
Class A-6 Certificates.
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Underwriters
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Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Banc of
America Securities LLC
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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.
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 the classes of
Accrual Certificates, the earlier of (x) the Cross-over Date and
(y) the Distribution Date on which (i) the Class Certificate
Balance of the Class A-6 Certificates has been reduced to zero (in
the case of the Class A-7 Certificates) or (ii) the Class
Certificate Balances of the Class A-6 and Class A-7 Certificates
have each been reduced to zero (in the case of the Class A-8
Certificates).
Accrual
Amount: For each Distribution Date through the applicable Accretion
Termination Date and each class of Accrual Certificates, an amount
equal to the sum of (x) Accrued Certificate Interest in respect of
such class of Accrual Certificates in accordance with clause (i) of
Section 4.2(a), and (y) amounts allocable to such class of 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 between the outstanding Classes of
Certificates based on the Accrued Certificate Interest otherwise
distributable thereto.
Additional Designated Information: As defined in
Section 10.2.
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.
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; provided that, solely for
purposes of this definition, the Subordinated Optimal Principal
Amount will be reduced by the amounts required to be distributed to
the Class PO Certificates in respect of the Class PO Deferred
Amount on such Distribution Date, and any such reduction in the
Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount 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 Certificate Account at the close of
business on the related Determination Date on account of (i)
Principal Prepayments received after the related Prepayment Period
and Liquidation Proceeds received in the month of such Distribution
Date and (ii) all Scheduled Payments due after the Due
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.
Available Funds: With respect to any
Distribution Date, an amount equal to the sum of:
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scheduled installments of interest, net of the Master Servicing
Fee, the Trustee Fee, all expenses and indemnities due to the
Master Servicer 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 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;
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all
Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds and Unanticipated
Recoveries received in respect of the Mortgage Loans 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;
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all
Principal Prepayments received in respect of the Mortgage Loans
during the related Prepayment Period, plus interest received
thereon, net of any Prepayment Interest Excess;
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any
Compensating Interest in respect of Principal Prepayments in Full
received in respect of the Mortgage Loans during the related
Prepayment Period (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date,
from the Cut-off Date); and
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any
Substitution Adjustment Amount or the Purchase Price for any
Deleted Mortgage Loan or a Mortgage Loan 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.
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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.
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
2006-FA7.”
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 (other than a Notional Amount Certificate) and as
of any Distribution Date, the principal balance of such Certificate
on the date of the initial issuance of such Certificate, as reduced
by:
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all
amounts distributed on previous Distribution Dates on such
Certificate on account of principal,
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the
principal portion of all Realized Losses previously allocated to
such Certificate, and
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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.
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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.
Certification Party: As defined in Section
10.5.
Certifying Person: As defined in Section
10.5.
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 Certificates pursuant to
Section 4.2(h).
Class
PO Certificates: The Principal Only
Certificates.
Class
PO Deferred Amount: With respect to the
Class PO Certificates and any Distribution Date through the
Cross-over Date, the sum of (1) the PO Percentage of the principal
portion of Non-Excess Losses on a Discount Mortgage Loan and (2)
all amounts previously allocated to the Class PO Certificates in
respect of such losses and not distributed to the Class PO
Certificates on prior Distribution Dates.
Class
PO Deferred Payment Writedown Amount: For any Distribution Date and
any Class of Principal Only Certificates, the amount, if any,
distributed on such date in respect of the 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 Principal Only Certificates, an amount equal
to the sum of:
(1)
the applicable PO Percentage of all Scheduled
Payments of principal due on each Mortgage Loan 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 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 (a)
all partial Principal Prepayments for each Mortgage Loan received
by the Master Servicer during the related Prepayment Period and (b)
all Unanticipated Recoveries in respect of each Mortgage Loan
received by the Master Servicer during the calendar month preceding
such Distribution Date;
(4)
the applicable PO Percentage of the sum of
(a) the net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal on
each Mortgage Loan 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 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 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 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.
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 of the
Class Certificate Balance of such Class and each Class subordinate
thereto, if any, and the denominator of which is the Pool Principal
Balance with respect to such Distribution Date, equals or exceeds
such percentage calculated as of the Closing
Date.
Closing
Date: October 30, 2006.
Code:
The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, including any successor or
amendatory provisions.
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 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 shall not exceed 0.0083%
of the Pool Principal Balance 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.
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, 4W, New York, New York 10286 (Attn: Corporate Trust
Administration - First Horizon Asset Securities Inc. Series
2006-FA7), 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 Lower REMIC
Interest identified in Section 2.7, the Class or Classes 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 Balance of each Class of Subordinated
Certificates has been reduced to zero.
Custodial Agreement: The Custodial Agreement
dated as of October 30, 2006 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: October 1, 2006.
Cut-off
Date Pool Principal Balance: $217,029,799.68.
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.
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 the 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.
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 with
an Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate of less than 6.25%.
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 2006-FA7.” 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 November 2006.
Due
Date: With respect to any Distribution Date, the first day of the
month in which the related Distribution Date
occurs.
EDGAR:
The SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval
system.
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.
ERISA
Restricted Yield Supplemented Certificates: Not
applicable.
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.
Excess
Loss: 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.
Exchange Act: The Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
Exchange Act Reports: Any reports on Form 10-D,
Form 8-K and Form 10-K required to be filed by the Depositor with
respect to the Trust Fund under the Exchange Act.
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.
Final
Scheduled Distribution Date: For each Certificate, as specified in
the Preliminary Statement.
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 and its successors and/or assigns. 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.
Form
10-D Disclosure Item: With respect to any Person, any material
litigation or governmental proceedings pending against such Person,
or against any of the Trust Fund, the Depositor, the Trustee, the
Co-Trustee, the Master Servicer or any Subservicer that is material
to the Certificateholders if such Person, as applicable, has actual
knowledge thereof.
Form
10-K Disclosure Item: With respect to any Person, (a) any Form 10-D
Disclosure Item, and (b) any affiliations or relationships between
such Person and any Item 1119 Party other than the Depositor, the
Master Servicer or any affiliate of either.
Fraud
Loan: A Liquidated Mortgage Loan as to which a Fraud Loss has
occurred.
Fraud
Loss Coverage Amount: As of the Closing Date, $4,340,596. 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 $2,170,298 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, 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.
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.
FTBNA:
First Tennessee Bank National Association, a national banking
association.
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.
Initial
LIBOR Rate: With respect to the calculation of the initial
Pass-Through Rate for the LIBOR Certificates, 5.30% per
annum
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 (a) in respect of
Insured Expenses, (b) that is applied to the restoration of the
related Mortgaged Property, or (c) that is released to the
Mortgagor in accordance with the Master Servicer’s normal
servicing procedures.
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.
Item
1119 Party: The Depositor, the Seller, the Master Servicer, the
Trustee, any Subservicer, any originator identified in the
Prospectus Supplement and any other material transaction party, as
identified in Exhibit P hereto, as updated pursuant to Section
10.4.
Latest
Possible Maturity Date: As to each Class of Certificates and each
Lower REMIC Interest, the Distribution Date following the third
anniversary of the scheduled maturity date of the Mortgage Loan
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
4.7.
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.
Limited
Exchange Act Reporting Obligations: The obligations of the Master
Servicer under Section 3.16(b), Section 8.7 and Section 8.9 with
respect to notice and information to be provided to the Depositor
and Article X (except Section 10.7(a)(i) and
(ii)).
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(h).
Lost
Mortgage Note: Any Mortgage Note, the original of which was
permanently lost or destroyed and has not been
replaced.
Lower
REMIC: The segregated pool of assets consisting of the Trust Fund
but excluding the Retained Yield, the Lower REMIC Interests, the RL
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 0.244%.
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® System: The system of recording
transfers of mortgages electronically maintained by
MERS.
MIN:
The Mortgage Identification Number for any MERS Mortgage
Loan.
MLPA:
The Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement dated as of October 30, 2006,
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.
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. and its successors and/or assigns. 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:
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the
Mortgagor’s name and the street address of the Mortgaged
Property, including the zip code;
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the
original principal balance;
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the
Cut-off Date Principal Balance;
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the
first payment date of the Mortgage Loan;
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the
Scheduled Payment in effect as of the Cut-off
Date;
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the
Loan-to-Value Ratio at origination;
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a code
indicating whether the residential dwelling at the time of
origination was represented to be owner-occupied;
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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;
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the
purpose for the Mortgage Loan;
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the
type of documentation program pursuant to which the Mortgage Loan
was originated;
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the
Master Servicing Fee for the Mortgage Loan; and
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a code
indicating whether the Mortgage Loan is a MERS Mortgage
Loan.
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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: The aggregate of the Mortgage
Loans identified in the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
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
October 2011; 30% of the applicable NAS Percentage thereafter
through the Distribution Date in October 2012; 40% of the
applicable NAS Percentage thereafter through the Distribution Date
in October 2013; 60% of the applicable NAS Percentage thereafter
through the Distribution Date in October 2014; 80% of the
applicable NAS Percentage thereafter through the Distribution Date
in October 2015; and 100% of the applicable NAS Percentage
thereafter.
NAS
Percentage: 0% through the Distribution Date in October 2011, and
for any Distribution Date thereafter, the lesser of (x) 100% and
(y) the percentage (carried to six decimal places rounded up)
obtained by dividing (1) the Class Certificate Balance of the Class
A-4 Certificates immediately preceding such Distribution Date by
(2) the aggregate Class Certificate Balances of all Classes of
Senior Certificates (other than the Notional Amount Certificates
and the Class PO Certificates) immediately preceding such
Distribution Date.
NAS
Principal Distribution Amount: For any Distribution Date, the
product of (x) the total of the amounts described in clauses (1)
through (5) of the definition of Senior Optimal Principal Amount
and (y) the NAS Distribution Percentage.
National Cost of Funds Index: The National
Monthly Median Cost of Funds Ratio to SAIF- Insured Institutions
published by the Office of Thrift Supervision.
Net
Interest Shortfall: For any Distribution Date, the sum of (a) the
amount of interest which would otherwise have been received for any
Mortgage Loan 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.
Net
Prepayment Interest Shortfalls: As to any Distribution Date, the
amount by which the aggregate of Prepayment Interest Shortfalls in
respect of the Mortgage Loans 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-Delay Certificates: As specified in the
Preliminary Statement.
Non-Discount Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan
with an Adjusted Net Mortgage Rate that is equal to or greater than
6.25% per annum.
Non-Excess Loss: Any Realized Loss other than an
Excess Loss.
Non-PO
Percentage: (a) With respect to a Discount Mortgage Loan, the
fraction, expressed as a percentage equal to the NMR divided by
6.25%, and (b) with respect to each Non-Discount Mortgage Loan,
100%.
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.
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 Mortgage Loan: The Mortgage Loan
refinanced in connection with the origination of a Refinancing
Mortgage Loan.
Original Subordinated Principal Balance:
The aggregate of the Class Certificate Balances
of the Subordinated Certificates as of the Closing
Date.
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:
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Certificates theretofore canceled by the Trustee
or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; and
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Certificates in exchange for which or in lieu of
which other Certificates have been executed and delivered by the
Trustee pursuant to this Agreement.
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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.
PAC
Certificates: The Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-5 and Class A-9
Certificates.
PAC
Schedule: The schedule designated as such in Exhibit
R.
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:
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(i)
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obligations of the United States or any agency
thereof, provided such obligations are backed by the full faith and
credit of the United States;
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(ii)
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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;
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(iii)
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commercial or finance company paper which is
then receiving the highest commercial or finance company paper
rating of each Rating Agency;
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(iv)
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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;
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(v)
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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;
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(vi)
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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;
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(vii)
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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;
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(viii)
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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);
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(ix)
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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
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(x)
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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;
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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.
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.
Plan:
An employee benefit plan or other retirement arrangement which is
subject to Section 406 of ERISA and/or Section 4975 of the Code or
any entity whose underlying assets include such plan’s or
arrangement’s assets by reason of their investment in the
entity.
Planned
Balance: With respect to the PAC Certificates and a Distribution
Date, the aggregate Principal Balance for the PAC Certificates for
such Distribution Date as reflected in the Principal Balance
Schedules annexed hereto as Exhibit R.
Planned
Principal Classes: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
PO
Percentage: (a) With respect to any Discount Mortgage Loan, the
fraction, expressed as a percentage, equal to (6.25% - NMR) divided
by 6.25%, and (b) with respect to any Non-Discount Mortgage Loan,
0%.
Pool
Principal Balance: with respect to any Distribution Date, the
aggregate of the Stated Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans
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.
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 Balance Schedules: The PAC Schedule
and the TAC Schedule.
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.
Prospectus: The Prospectus dated April 20, 2006
generally relating to mortgage pass-through certificates to be sold
by the Depositor.
Prospectus Supplement: The Prospectus
Supplement, dated October 24, 2006, relating to the Offered
Certificates.
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.
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.
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.
Regulation AB: Subpart 229.1100 - Asset Backed
Securities (Regulation AB), 17 C.F.R.
§§229.1100-229.1123, as such may be amended from time to
time, and subject to such clarification and interpretation as have
been provided by the SEC in the adopting release (Asset-Backed
Securities, Securities Act Release No. 33-8518, 70 Fed. Reg. 1,506,
1,531 (Jan. 7, 2005)) or by the staff of the SEC, or as may be
provided by the SEC or its staff from time to
time.
Relief
Act: The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, as amended, 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 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.
Reportable Event: Any event required to be
reported on Form 8-K, and in any event, the
following:
(a)
entry into a definitive agreement related to the
Trust Fund, the Certificates or the Mortgage Loans, or an amendment
to a Transaction Document, even if the Depositor is not a party to
such agreement (e.g., a servicing agreement with a servicer
contemplated by Item 1108(a)(3) of Regulation
AB);
(b)
termination of this Agreement or any other
document entered into in connection with the Trust Fund, the
Certificates or the Mortgage Loans (other than by expiration of the
applicable agreement on its stated termination date or as a result
of all parties completing their obligations under such agreement),
even if the Depositor is not a party to such agreement (e.g., a
servicing agreement with a servicer contemplated by Item 1108(a)(3)
of Regulation AB);
(c)
with respect to the Master Servicer only, if the
Master Servicer becomes aware of any bankruptcy or receivership
with respect to First Horizon, the Depositor, the Master Servicer,
any Subservicer, the Trustee, the Co-Trustee, any enhancement or
support provider contemplated by Items 1114(b) or 1115 of
Regulation AB, or any other material party contemplated by Item
1101(d)(1) of Regulation AB;
(d)
with respect to the Trustee, the Master Servicer
and the Depositor only, the occurrence of an early amortization,
performance trigger or other event, including an Event of Default
under this Agreement;
(e)
the resignation, removal, replacement,
substitution of the Trustee, the Master Servicer, any Subservicer,
the Trustee or any Co-Trustee;
(f)
with respect to the Master Servicer only, if the
Master Servicer becomes aware that (i) any material enhancement or
support specified in Item 1114(a)(1) through (3) of Regulation AB
or Item 1115 of Regulation AB that was previously applicable
regarding one or more classes of the Certificates has terminated
other than by expiration of the contract on its stated termination
date or as a result of all parties completing their obligations
under such agreement; (ii) any material enhancement specified in
Item 1114(a)(1) through (3) of Regulation AB or Item 1115 of
Regulation AB has been added with respect to one or more classes of
the Certificates; or (iii) any existing material enhancement or
support specified in Item 1114(a)(1) through (3) of Regulation AB
or Item 1115 of Regulation AB with respect to one or more classes
of the Certificates has been materially amended or modified;
and
(g)
with respect to the Trustee, the Master Servicer
and the Depositor only, a required distribution to Holders of the
Certificates is not made as of the required Distribution Date under
this Agreement.
Reporting Subcontractor: With respect to the
Master Servicer of the Trustee, any Subcontractor determined by
such Person pursuant to Section 10.8(b) to be materially
“participating in the servicing function” within the
meaning of Item 1122 of Regulation AB. References to a Reporting
Subcontractor shall refer only to the Subcontractor of such Person
and shall not refer to Subcontractors generally.
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: 6.500% 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.
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, 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).
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 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 A-R Certificate.
Sarbanes-Oxley Certification: As defined in
Section 10.5.
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.
SEC:
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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.
Senior
Final Distribution Date: For the Senior Certificates, the
Distribution Date on which the Class Certificate Balance of each
Class of Senior Certificates has been reduced to
zero.
Senior
Mezzanine Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Senior
Optimal Principal Amount: With respect to each Distribution Date,
an amount equal to the sum of:
(1)
the Senior Percentage of the applicable Non-PO
Percentage of all Scheduled Payments of principal due on each
Mortgage Loan 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 Senior Prepayment Percentage of the
applicable Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of
each Mortgage Loan which was the subject of a Principal Prepayment
in Full received by the Master Servicer during the applicable
Prepayment Period;
(3)
the Senior Prepayment Percentage of the
applicable Non-PO Percentage of the sum of (a) all partial
Principal Prepayments in respect of each Mortgage Loan received
during the applicable Prepayment Period and (b) all Unanticipated
Recoveries in respect of each Mortgage Loan received during the
calendar month preceding such Distribution Date;
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the
Senior Prepayment Percentage of the sum of (x) the applicable
Non-PO Percentage of the Liquidation Proceeds allocable to
principal on each Mortgage Loan 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
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
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(b)
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(i) the
Senior Percentage of the sum of (x) the applicable Non-PO
Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan
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 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) during the related Prepayment Period;
and
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(5)
the Senior Prepayment Percentage of the sum of
(a) the applicable Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal
Balance of each Mortgage Loan 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 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, the lesser of 100% and the
percentage (carried to six places) obtained by dividing the
aggregate Class Certificate Balances of all Classes of Senior
Certificates (other than the Notional Amount Certificates and the
Class PO Certificates) immediately preceding such Distribution Date
by the Pool Principal Balance (excluding the aggregate of the PO
Percentage of the principal balance of each Discount Mortgage Loan)
for the immediately preceding Distribution Date.
Senior
Prepayment Percentage: On any Distribution Date occurring during
the periods set forth below, the Senior Prepayment Percentages
described below:
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Period (Dates
Inclusive)
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Senior Prepayment
Percentage
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November
2006 - October 2011
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100%
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November
2011 - October 2012
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The
Senior Percentage plus 70% of the Subordinated
Percentage.
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November
2012 - October 2013
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The
Senior Percentage plus 60% of the Subordinated
Percentage.
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November
2013 - October 2014
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The
Senior Percentage plus 40% of the Subordinated
Percentage.
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November
2014 - October 2015
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The
Senior Percentage plus 20% of the Subordinated
Percentage.
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November
2015 and thereafter
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The
Senior Percentage.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Senior
Percentage on any Distribution Date exceeds the initial Senior
Percentage, the Senior Prepayment Percentage for such Distribution
Date will equal 100%.
In
addition, no reduction of the Senior Prepayment Percentage 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, as of the
last day of the month preceding such Distribution
Date:
(1)
the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of
Mortgage Loans 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 aggregate Class Certificate
Balances of the Subordinated Certificates as of that date;
and
(2)
cumulative Realized Losses do not
exceed:
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(a)
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30% of
the Original Subordinated Principal Balance if such Distribution
Date occurs between and including November 2011 and October
2012;
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(b)
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35% of
the Original Subordinated Principal Balance if such Distribution
Date occurs between and including November 2012 and October
2013;
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(c)
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40% of
the Original Subordinated Principal Balance if such Distribution
Date occurs between and including November 2013 and October
2014;
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(d)
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45% of
the Original Subordinated Principal Balance if such Distribution
Date occurs between and including November 2014 and October 2015;
and
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(e)
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50% of
the related Original Subordinated Principal Balance if such
Distribution Date occurs during or after November
2015.
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Senior
Support Mezzanine Certificates: Not Applicable.
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, as the same may be
amended from time to time in accordance with its
terms.
Servicing Criteria: The “servicing
criteria” set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation
AB.
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, as the same may be amended from time to time in
accordance with its terms.
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, (ii) any shortfall in Insurance Proceeds
for partial damage due to the application of the co-insurance
clauses contained in a hazard insurance policy, or (iii) 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:
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(i)
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by any
government or sovereign power, de jure or de facto, or by any
authority maintaining or using military, naval or air
forces;
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(ii)
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by
military, naval or air forces; or
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(iii)
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by an
agent of any such government, power, authority or
forces;
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(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, $ 3,445,000. As of
any Distribution Date, the Special Hazard Loss Coverage Amount will
equal the greater of
(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, a division
of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and its successors and/or
assigns. 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.
Subcontractor: Any vendor, subcontractor or
other Person that is not responsible for the overall servicing (as
“servicing” is commonly understood by participants in
the mortgage-backed securities market) of Mortgage Loans but
performs one or more discrete functions identified in Item 1122(d)
of Regulation AB with respect to the Mortgage Loans under the
direction or authority of the Master Servicer, a Subservicer or the
Trustee, as the case may be.
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
Pool Principal Balance 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 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):
(1)
the Subordinated Percentage of the applicable
Non-PO Percentage of all Scheduled Payments of principal due on
each outstanding Mortgage Loan 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 Subordinated Prepayment Percentage of the
applicable Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of
each Mortgage Loan which was the subject of a Principal Prepayment
in Full received by the Master Servicer during the related
Prepayment Period;
(3)
the 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
during the related Prepayment Period, (b) all Unanticipated
Recoveries received in respect of each Mortgage Loan 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, other than
Mortgage Loans described in clause (b), and (b) the applicable
Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage
Loan 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 Subordinated Prepayment Percentage of the
sum of (a) the applicable Non-PO Percentage of the Stated Principal
Balance of each Mortgage Loan 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 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, 100% minus the Senior Percentage.
Subordinated Prepayment Percentage: For any
Distribution Date, 100% minus the 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) 6.25%, 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: Not applicable.
Support
Classes: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
TAC
Certificates: The Class A-6 Certificates.
TAC
Schedule: The schedule designated as such in Exhibit
R.
Targeted Balance: With respect to the Class of
TAC Certificates and any Distribution Date, the balance for such
Distribution Date as reflected in the Principal Balance Schedules
annexed hereto as Exhibit R.
Targeted Principal Classes: As specified in the
Preliminary Statement.
Targeted Balance: Not
applicable.
Targeted Principal Classes: Not
applicable.
Tax
Matters Person: The person designated as “tax matters
person” in the manner provided under Treasury regulation
§ 1.860F-4(d) and Treasury regulation § 301.6231(a)(7)-1.
Initially, the Tax Matters Person shall be the
Trustee.
Tax
Matters Person Certificate: The Class 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.
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, an amount equal to one-twelfth of
the Trustee Fee Rate multiplied by the 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).
Underwriters: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Underwriters’ Exemption: An individual
administrative exemption granted by the U.S. Department of Labor to
the Underwriters providing exceptions from some of the prohibited
transaction rules of ERISA with respect to the initial purchase,
the holding and the subsequent resale by employee benefit plans in
certificates in pass-through trusts having assets and meeting
conditions described therein, as amended by Prohibited Transaction
Exemption 2000-58 (65 Fed. Reg. 67765, November 13, 2000), as
amended, and Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2002-41 (67 Fed. Reg.
54487, August 22, 2002), 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 Lower 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 Notional Amount
Certificates and the Class A-R Certificates, in proportion to their
then outstanding Class Certificate Balance; and (b) 1.0% of all
voting rights will be allocated among the Holders of the Notional
Amount Certificates, in proportion to their Notional Amount; and
(c) 1.0% of all Voting Rights will be allocated to the Class A-R
Certificates (such Voting Rights to be allocated among the Holders
of Certificates of such Class in accordance with their respective
Percentage Interests).
ARTICLE II
CONVEYANCE OF MORTGAGE
LOANS;
REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
SECTION
2.1 Conveyance of Mortgage Loans.
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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.
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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:
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(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
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(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;
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except
as provided below and for each Mortgage Loan that is not a MERS
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
original recorded Mortgage, noting 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, or a copy of the Mortgage certified by
the Seller as being a true and complete copy of the
Mortgage;
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in the
case of a Mortgage Loan that is not a MERS 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 ;
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the
original or copies of each assumption, modification, written
assurance or substitution agreement, if any;
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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 or preliminary report of the
title issued by the title insurance or escrow company with respect
to the Mortgaged Property, or in lieu thereof, an Alternative Title
Product or a copy of such Alternative Title Product certified by
the Seller as being a true and complete copy of the Alternative
Title Product ;
and
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in the
case of a Cooperative Loan, the originals of the following
documents or instruments:
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The
Coop Shares, together with a stock power in
blank;
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The
executed Security Agreement;
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The
executed Proprietary Lease;
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The
executed Recognition Agreement;
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The
executed UCC-1 financing statement with evidence of recording
thereon which have been filed in all places required to perfect the
Seller’s interest in the Coop Shares and the Proprietary
Lease; and
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Executed UCC-3 financing statements or other
appropriate UCC financing statements required by state law,
evidencing a complete and unbroken line from the mortgagee to the
Trustee with evidence of recording thereon (or in a form suitable
for recordation)
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In the
event that in connection with any Mortgage Loan that is not a MERS
Mortgage Loan the Depositor cannot deliver (a) the original
recorded Mortgage or (b) all interim recorded assignments
satisfying the requirements of clause (ii) or (iii) above,
respectively, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof
because such document or documents have not been returned from the
applicable public recording office, the Depositor shall promptly
deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian on
its behalf such original Mortgage or such interim assignment, as
the case may be, with evidence of recording indicated thereon upon
receipt thereof from the public recording office, or a copy
thereof, certified, if appropriate, by the relevant recording
office, but in no event shall any such delivery of the original
Mortgage and each such interim assignment or a copy thereof,
certified, if appropriate, by the relevant recording office, be
made later than one year following the Closing Date; provided,
however, in the event the Depositor is unable to deliver or cause
to be delivered by such date each Mortgage and each such interim
assignment by reason of the fact that any such documents have not
been returned by the appropriate recording office, or, in the case
of each such interim assignment, because the related Mortgage has
not been returned by the appropriate recording office, the
Depositor shall deliver or cause to be delivered such documents to
the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf as promptly as possible
upon receipt thereof and, in any event, within 720 days following
the Closing Date. The Depositor shall forward or cause to be
forwarded to the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf (a) from
time to time additional original documents evidencing an assumption
or modification of a Mortgage Loan and (b) any other documents
required to be delivered by the Depositor or the Master Servicer to
the Trustee. In the event that the original Mortgage is not
delivered and in connection with the payment in full of the related
Mortgage Loan and the public recording office requires the
presentation of a “lost instruments affidavit and
indemnity” or any equivalent document, because only a copy of
the Mortgage can be delivered with the instrument of satisfaction
or reconveyance, the Master Servicer shall execute and deliver or
cause to be executed and delivered such a document to the public
recording office. In the case where a public recording office
retains the original recorded Mortgage or in the case where a
Mortgage is lost after recordation in a public recording office,
the Depositor shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee
or the Custodian on its behalf a copy of such Mortgage certified by
such public recording office to be a true and complete copy of the
original recorded Mortgage.
In
addition, in the event that in connection with any Mortgage Loan
the Depositor cannot deliver or cause to be delivered the original
or duplicate original lender’s title policy (together with
all riders thereto), satisfying the requirements of clause (v)
above, concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof because
the related Mortgage has not been returned from the applicable
public recording office, the Depositor shall promptly deliver or
cause to be delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf
such original or duplicate original lender’s title policy
(together with all riders thereto) upon receipt thereof from the
applicable title insurer, but in no event shall any such delivery
of the original or duplicate original lender’s title policy
be made later than one year following the Closing Date; provided,
however, in the event the Depositor is unable to deliver or cause
to be delivered by such date the original or duplicate original
lender’s title policy (together with all riders thereto)
because the related Mortgage has not been returned by the
appropriate recording office, the Depositor shall deliver or cause
to be delivered such documents to the Trustee or the Custodian on
its behalf as promptly as possible upon receipt thereof and, in any
event, within 720 days following the Closing Date; provided
further, however, that the Depositor shall not be required to
deliver an original or duplicate lender’s title policy
(together with all riders thereto) if the Depositor delivers an
Alternative Title Product in lieu thereof. Notwithstanding the
preceding, in connection with any Mortgage Loan for which either
the original or duplicate original title policy has not been
delivered to the Trust, if at any time during the term of this
Agreement the parent company of the Seller does not have a long
term senior debt rating of A- or higher from S&P and A- or
higher from Fitch (if rated by Fitch), then the Depositor shall
within 30 days deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee or
the Custodian on its behalf (if it has not previously done so) a
written commitment or interim binder or preliminary report of the
title issued by the title insurance or escrow company with respect
to the Mortgaged Property.
Subject
to the immediately following sentence, as promptly as practicable
subsequent to such transfer and assignment, and in any event,
within thirty (30) days thereafter, the Master Servicer shall (i)
complete each assignment of Mortgage, as follows: “First
Horizon Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-FA7, The
Bank of New York, as trustee for the holders of the
Certificates”, (ii) cause such assignment to be in proper
form for recording in the appropriate public office for real
property records and (iii) cause to be delivered for recording in
the appropriate public office for real property records the
assignments of the Mortgages to the Trustee, except that, with
respect to any assignments of Mortgage as to which the Master
Servicer has not received the information required to prepare such
assignment in recordable form, the Master Servicer’s
obligation to do so and to deliver the same for such recording
shall be as soon as practicable after receipt of such information
and in any event within thirty (30) days after receipt thereof.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Master Servicer need not cause
to be recorded any assignment which relates to a Mortgage Loan in
any state other than the Required Recordation
States.
In the
case of Mortgage Loans that have been prepaid in full as of the
Closing Date, the Depositor, in lieu of delivering the above
documents to the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf, will
deposit in the Certificate Account the portion of such payment that
is required to be deposited in the Certificate Account pursuant to
Section 3.8 hereof.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Agreement, within thirty days after the Closing Date, the Depositor
shall either (i) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee or
the Custodian on its behalf the Mortgage File as required pursuant
to this Section 2.1 for each Delay Delivery Mortgage Loan or (ii)
(A) substitute or cause to be substituted a Substitute Mortgage
Loan for the Delay Delivery Mortgage Loan or (B) repurchase or
cause to be repurchased the Delay Delivery Mortgage Loan, which
substitution or repurchase shall be accomplished in the manner and
subject to the conditions set forth in Section 2.3 (treating each
Delay Delivery Mortgage Loan as a Deleted Mortgage Loan for
purposes of such Section 2.3), provided, however, that if the
Depositor fails to deliver a Mortgage File for any Delay Delivery
Mortgage Loan within the thirty-day period provided in the prior
sentence, the Depositor shall use its best reasonable efforts to
effect or cause to be effected a substitution, rather than a
repurchase of, such Deleted Mortgage Loan and provided further that
the cure period provided for in Section 2.2 or in Section 2.3 shall
not apply to the initial delivery of the Mortgage File for such
Delay Delivery Mortgage Loan, but rather the Depositor shall have
five (5) Business Days to cure or cause to be cured such failure to
deliver. At the end of such thirty-day period, the Trustee or the
Custodian, on its behalf shall send a Delay Delivery Certification
for the Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans delivered during such
thirty-day period in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.2.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Agreement, none of the Mortgage Loans in the Trust Fund is or will
be Delay Delivery Mortgage Loans.
SECTION
2.2 Acceptance by Trustee of the Mortgage Loans.
The
Trustee or the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, acknowledges
receipt of the documents identified in the Initial Certification in
the form annexed hereto as Exhibit E and declares that it or the
Custodian holds and will hold such documents and the other
documents delivered to it or the Custodian, as applicable,
constituting the Mortgage Files, and that it or the Custodian, as
applicable, holds or will hold such other assets as are included in
the Trust Fund, in trust for the exclusive use and benefit of all
present and future Certificateholders. The Trustee acknowledges
that the Custodian will maintain possession of the Mortgage Notes
in the State of Texas, unless otherwise permitted by the Rating
Agencies.
The
Trustee agrees to execute and deliver or to cause the Custodian to
execute and deliver on the Closing Date to the Depositor and the
Master Servicer an Initial Certification in the form annexed hereto
as Exhibit E. Based on its or the Custodian’s review and
examination, and only as to the documents identified in such
Initial Certification, the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee,
acknowledges that such documents appear regular on their face and
relate to such Mortgage Loan. Neither the Trustee nor the Custodian
shall be under any duty or obligation to inspect, review or examine
said documents, instruments, certificates or other papers to
determine that the same are genuine, enforceable or appropriate for
the represented purpose or that they have actually been recorded in
the real estate records or that they are other than what they
purport to be on their face.
On or
about the thirtieth (30th) day after the Closing Date, the Trustee
shall deliver or shall cause the Custodian to deliver to the
Depositor and the Master Servicer a Delay Delivery Certification in
the form annexed hereto as Exhibit F, with any applicable
exceptions noted thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in this Agreement, none of the Mortgage Loans in the
Trust Fund is or will be Delay Delivery Mortgage
Loans.
Not
later than 90 days after the Closing Date, the Trustee shall
deliver or shall cause the Custodian to deliver to the Depositor
and the Master Servicer a Subsequent Certification in the form
annexed hereto as Exhibit G, with any applicable exceptions noted
thereon.
If, in
the course of such review, the Trustee or the Custodian, on behalf
of the Trustee, finds any document constituting a part of a
Mortgage File which does not meet the requirements of Section 2.1,
the Trustee shall list or shall cause the Custodian to list such as
an exception in the Subsequent Certification; provided, however
that neither the Trustee nor the Custodian shall make any
determination as to whether (i) any endorsement is 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
(ii) any assignment is in recordable form or is sufficient to
effect the assignment of and transfer to the assignee thereof under
the mortgage to which the assignment relates. The Seller shall
promptly correct or cure such defect within 90 days from the date
it was so notified of such defect and, if the Seller does not
correct or cure such defect within such period, the Seller shall
either (a) substitute for the related Mortgage Loan a Substitute
Mortgage Loan, which substitution shall be accomplished in the
manner and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 2.3, or
(b) purchase such Mortgage Loan from the Trustee within 90 days
from the date the Seller was notified of such defect in writing at
the Purchase Price of such Mortgage Loan; provided, however, that
in no event shall such substitution or purchase occur more than 540
days from the Closing Date, except that if the substitution or
purchase of a Mortgage Loan pursuant to this provision is required
by reason of a delay in delivery of any documents by the
appropriate recording office, and there is a dispute between either
the Master Servicer or the Seller and the Trustee over the location
or status of the recorded document, then such substitution or
purchase shall occur within 720 days from the Closing Date. The
Trustee shall deliver or shall cause the Custodian to deliver
written notice to each Rating Agency within 270 days from the
Closing Date indicating each Mortgage Loan (a) which has not been
returned by the appropriate recording office or (b) as to which
there is a dispute as to location or status of such Mortgage Loan.
Such notice shall be delivered every 90 days thereafter until the
related Mortgage Loan is returned to the Trustee or the Custodian
on its behalf. Any such substitution pursuant to (a) above or
purchase pursuant to (b) above shall not be effected prior to the
delivery to the Trustee of the Opinion of Counsel required by
Section 2.5 hereof, if any, and any substitution pursuant to (a)
above shall not be effected prior to the additional delivery to the
Trustee of a Request for Release substantially in the form of
Exhibit L. No substitution is permitted to be made in any calendar
month after the Determination Date for such month. The Purchase
Price for any such Mortgage Loan shall be deposited by the Seller
in the Certificate Account on or prior to the Distribution Account
Deposit Date for the Distribution Date in the month following the
month of repurchase and, upon receipt of such deposit and
certification with respect thereto in the form of Exhibit M hereto
(delivery of which to the Custodian will be by electronic data
transmission or email), the Trustee shall cause the Custodian to
release the related Mortgage File to the Seller and shall execute
and deliver at the Seller’s request such instruments of
transfer or assignment prepared by the Seller, in each case without
recourse, as shall be necessary to vest in the Seller, or a
designee, the Trustee’s interest in any Mortgage Loan
released pursuant hereto. If pursuant to the foregoing provisions
the Seller repurchases a Mortgage Loan that is a MERS Mortgage
Loan, the Master Servicer shall either (i) cause MERS to execute
and deliver an assignment of the Mortgage in recordable form to
transfer the Mortgage from MERS to the Seller and shall cause such
Mortgage to be removed from registration on the MERS® System
in accordance with MERS’ rules and regulations or (ii) cause
MERS to designate on the MERS® System the Seller as the
beneficial holder of such Mortgage Loan.
The
Trustee shall retain or shall cause the Custodian to retain
possession and custody of each Mortgage File in accordance with and
subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein. The Master
Servicer shall promptly deliver to the Trustee or the Custodian on
its behalf, upon the execution or receipt thereof, the originals of
such other documents or instruments constituting the Mortgage File
as come into the possession of the Master Servicer from time to
time.
It is
understood and agreed that the obligation of the Seller to
substitute for or to purchase any Mortgage Loan which does not meet
the requirements of Section 2.1 above shall constitute the sole
remedy respecting such defect available to the Trustee, the
Depositor and any Certificateholder against the
Seller.
The
mortgage loans permitted by the terms of this Agreement to be
included in the Trust Fund are limited to (i) the Mortgage Loans
(which the Depositor acquired pursuant to the MLPA, which contains,
among other representations and warranties, a representation and
warranty of the Seller that no Mortgage Loan is a “high cost
loan” as defined by the specific applicable local, state or
federal predatory and abusive lending laws, and (ii) Substitute
Mortgage Loans (which, by definition as set forth in this Agreement
and referred to in the MLPA, are required to conform to, among
other representations and warranties, a representation and warranty
of the Seller set forth in the MLPA that no Substitute Mortgage
Loan is a “high cost loan” as defined by the specific
applicable local, state or federal predatory and abusive lending
laws). It is therefore understood and agreed by the parties hereto
that it is not intended that any Mortgage Loan be included in the
Trust Fund that is a “high cost loan” as defined by the
specific applicable local, state or federal predatory and abusive
lending laws.
SECTION
2.3 Representations and Warranties of the Master Servicer;
Covenants of the Seller.
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The
Master Servicer hereby makes the representations and warranties set
forth in Schedule II hereto and by this reference incorporated
herein, to the Depositor and the Trustee, as of the Closing Date,
or if so specified therein, as of the Cut-off
Date.
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Upon
discovery by any of the parties hereto of a breach of a
representation or warranty made pursuant to Schedule B to the MLPA
that materially and adversely affects the interests of the
Certificateholders in any Mortgage Loan, the party discovering such
breach shall give prompt notice thereof to the other parties. The
Seller hereby covenants that within 90 days of the earlier of its
discovery or its receipt of written notice from any party of a
breach of any representation or warranty made pursuant to Schedule
B to the MLPA which materially and adversely affects the interests
of the Certificateholders in any Mortgage Loan, it shall cure such
breach in all material respects, and if such breach is not so
cured, shall, (i) if such 90-day period expires prior to the second
anniversary of the Closing Date, remove such Mortgage Loan (a
“Deleted Mortgage Loan”) from the Trust Fund and
substitute in its place a Substitute Mortgage Loan, in the manner
and subject to the conditions set forth in this Section; or (ii)
repurchase the affected Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans from the
Trustee at the Purchase Price in the manner set forth below;
provided, however, that any such substitution pursuant to (i) above
shall not be effected prior to the delivery to the Trustee of the
Opinion of Counsel required by Section 2.5 hereof, if any, and
any such substitution pursuant to (i) above shall not be effected
prior to the additional delivery to the Trustee or the Custodian on
its behalf of a Request for Release substantially in the form of
Exhibit M (delivery of which to the Custodian will be by electronic
data transmission or email) and the Mortgage File for any such
Substitute Mortgage Loan. The Seller shall promptly reimburse the
Master Servicer and the Trustee for any expenses reasonably
incurred by the Master Servicer or the Trustee in respect of
enforcing the remedies for such breach. With respect to the
representations and warranties described in this Section which are
made to the best of the Seller’s knowledge, if it is
discovered by either the Depositor, the Seller or the Trustee that
the substance of such representation and warranty is inaccurate and
such inaccuracy materially and adversely affects the value of the
related Mortgage Loan or the interests of the Certificateholders
therein, notwithstanding the Seller’s lack of knowledge with
respect to the substance of such representation or warranty, such
inaccuracy shall be deemed a breach of the applicable
representation or warranty.
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With
respect to any Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans, the Seller shall
deliver to the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf for the
benefit of the Certificateholders the Mortgage Note, the Mortgage,
the related assignment of the Mortgage, and such other documents
and agreements as are required by Section 2.1, with the Mortgage
Note endorsed and the Mortgage assigned as required by Section 2.1.
No substitution is permitted to be made in any calendar month after
the Determination Date for such month. Scheduled Payments due with
respect to Substitute Mortgage Loans in the month of substitution
shall not be part of the Trust Fund and will be retained by the
Seller on the next succeeding Distribution Date. For the month of
substitution, distributions to Certificateholders will include the
monthly payment due on any Deleted Mortgage Loan for such month and
thereafter the Seller shall be entitled to retain all amounts
received in respect of such Deleted Mortgage Loan. The Master
Servicer shall amend the Mortgage Loan Schedule for the benefit of
the Certificateholders to reflect the removal of such Deleted
Mortgage Loan and the substitution of the Substitute Mortgage Loan
or Loans and the Master Servicer shall deliver the amended Mortgage
Loan Schedule to the Trustee. Upon such substitution, the
Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans shall be subject to the terms of
this Agreement in all respects, and the Seller shall be deemed to
have made with respect to such Substitute Mortgage Loan or Loans,
as of the date of substitution, the representations and warranties
made pursuant to Schedule B to the MLPA with respect to such
Mortgage Loan. Upon any such substitution and the deposit to the
Certificate Account of the amount required to be deposited therein
in connection with such substitution as described in the following
paragraph, the Trustee shall , upon the delivery to the Trustee of
a Request for Release in the form of Exhibit L, release or shall
cause the Custodian to release the Mortgage File held for the
benefit of the Certificateholders relating to such Deleted Mortgage
Loan to the Seller and shall execute and deliver at the
Seller’s direction such instruments of transfer or assignment
prepared by the Seller, in each case without recourse, as shall be
necessary to vest title in the Seller, or its designee, the
Trustee’s interest in any Deleted Mortgage Loan substituted
for pursuant to this Section 2.3.
For any
month in which the Seller substitutes one or more Substitute
Mortgage Loans for one or more Deleted Mortgage Loans, the Master
Servicer will determine the amount (if any) by which the aggregate
principal balance of all such Substitute Mortgage Loans as of the
date of substitution is less than the aggregate Stated Principal
Balance of all such Deleted Mortgage Loans (after application of
the scheduled principal portion of the monthly payments due in the
month of substitution). The amount of such shortage (the
“Substitution Adjustment Amount”) plus an amount equal
to the aggregate of any unreimbursed Advances with respect to such
Deleted Mortgage Loans shall be deposited in the Certificate
Account by the Seller on or before the Distribution Account Deposit
Date for the Distribution Date in the month succeeding the calendar
month during which the related Mortgage Loan became required to be
purchased or replaced hereunder.
In the
event that the Seller shall have repurchased a Mortgage Loan, the
Purchase Price therefor shall be deposited in the Certificate
Account pursuant to Section 3.5 on or before the Distribution
Account Deposit Date for the Distribution Date in the month
following the month during which the Seller became obligated
hereunder to repurchase or replace such Mortgage Loan and upon such
deposit of the Purchase Price, the delivery of the Opinion of
Counsel required by Section 2.5 and receipt of a Request for
Release in the form of Exhibit M hereto, the Trustee shall release
or shall cause the Custodian to release the related Mortgage File
held for the benefit of the Certificateholders to such Person, and
the Trustee shall execute and deliver or shall cause the Custodian
to execute and deliver at such Person’s direction such
instruments of transfer or assignment prepared by such Person, in
each case without recourse, as shall be necessary to transfer title
from the Trustee. It is understood and agreed that the obligation
under this Agreement of the Seller to cure, repurchase or replace
any Mortgage Loan as to which a breach has occurred and is
continuing shall constitute the sole remedy against the Seller
respecting such breach available to Certificateholders, the
Depositor or the Trustee on their behalf.
After
giving effect to the sale of the Certificates by the Depositor to
the Underwriters, and thereafter, so long as any Certificates
remain outstanding, the Seller, its affiliates and agents,
collectively, shall not beneficially own Certificates the aggregate
fair value of which would represent 90% or more of the beneficial
interests in the Trust Fund.
The
representations and warranties made pursuant to this Section 2.3
shall survive delivery of the respective Mortgage Files to the
Trustee or the Custodian for the benefit of the
Certificateholders.
SECTION
2.4 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor as to the
Mortgage Loans.
The
Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Trustee with
respect to each Mortgage Loan as of the date hereof or such other
date set forth herein that as of the Closing Date, and following
the transfer of the Mortgage Loans to it pursuant to the MLPA and
immediately prior to the conveyance of the Mortgage Loans by it to
the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.1(a) hereof, the Depositor had
good title to the Mortgage Loans and the Mortgage Notes were
subject to no offsets, defenses or counterclaims.
It is
understood and agreed that the representations and warranties set
forth in this Section 2.4 shall survive delivery of the Mortgage
Files to the Trustee. Upon discovery by the Depositor or the
Trustee of a breach of any of the foregoing representations and
warranties set forth in this Section 2.4 (referred to herein as a
“breach”), which breach materially and adversely
affects the interest of the Certificateholders, the party
discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice to the
others and to each Rating Agency.
SECTION
2.5 Delivery of Opinion of Counsel in Connection with
Substitutions.
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Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this
Agreement, no substitution pursuant to Section 2.2 or Section 2.3
shall be made more than 90 days after the Closing Date unless the
Depositor delivers to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, which
Opinion of Counsel shall not be at the expense of either the
Trustee or the Trust Fund, addressed to the Trustee, to the effect
that such substitution will not (i) result in the imposition of the
tax on “prohibited transactions” on the Trust Fund or
contributions after the Startup Date, as defined in Sections
860F(a)(2) and 860G(d) of the Code, respectively, or (ii) cause any
REMIC created hereunder to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time
that any Certificates are outstanding.
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Upon
discovery by the Depositor, the Master Servicer or the Trustee that
any Mortgage Loan does not constitute a “qualified
mortgage” within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(3) of the
Code, the party discovering such fact shall promptly (and in any
event within five (5) Business Days of discovery) give written
notice thereof to the other parties. In connection therewith, the
Trustee shall require the Depositor to cause the Seller, pursuant
to the MLPA and at the Seller’s option, to either (i)
substitute, if the conditions in Section 2.3(b) with respect to
substitutions are satisfied, a Substitute Mortgage Loan for the
affected Mortgage Loan, or (ii) repurchase the affected Mortgage
Loan within 90 days of such discovery in the same manner as it
would a Mortgage Loan for a breach of representation or warranty
made pursuant to Section 2.3. The Trustee shall reconvey or shall
cause the Custodian to reconvey to the Seller the Mortgage Loan to
be released pursuant hereto in the same manner, and on the same
terms and conditions, as it would a Mortgage Loan repurchased for
breach of a representation or warranty contained in Section
2.3.
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SECTION
2.6 Execution and Delivery of Certificates.
The
Trustee acknowledges the transfer and assignment to it of the Trust
Fund and, concurrently with such transfer and assignment, has
executed and delivered to or upon the order of the Depositor, the
Certificates in authorized denominations evidencing directly or
indirectly the entire ownership of the Trust Fund. The Trustee
agrees to hold the Trust Fund and exercise the rights referred to
above for the benefit of all present and future Holders of the
Certificates and to perform the duties set forth in this Agreement
to the best of its ability, to the end that the interests of the
Holders of the Certificates may be adequately and effectively
protected.
SECTION
2.7 REMIC Matters.
The
Preliminary Statement sets forth the “latest possible
maturity date” for federal income tax purposes of all REMIC
regular interests created hereby.
The
assets of the Lower REMIC shall be as set forth in the definition
thereof. Each interest identified in the first table below by a
designation beginning with “L” shall be a
“regular interest” in the Lower REMIC and a Lower REMIC
Interest, and the RL Interest shall be the sole class of residual
interest in the Lower REMIC. The Lower REMIC Interests shall be
uncertificated and shall be held by the Trustee as assets of the
Upper REMIC.
The
assets of the Upper REMIC shall be as set forth in the definition
thereof. The Regular Certificates shall represent “regular
interests” in the Upper REMIC. The RU Interest shall be the
sole class of residual interest in the Upper REMIC. The
Class A-R Certificate shall represent ownership of the RL
Interest and the RU Interest.
The
“Startup Day” for purposes of the REMIC Provisions for
each REMIC hereunder shall be the Closing Date. The Tax Matters
Person with respect to each REMIC hereunder shall be the Trustee
and the Trustee shall hold the Tax Matters Person Certificate. Each
REMIC’s taxable year shall be the calendar year and its
accounts shall be maintained using the accrual
method.
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Lower
REMIC
Interest or
Residual
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Lower REMIC
Interest Balance
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Lower REMIC
Interest Rate
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Corresponding Class or
Interest
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Interest
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Principal
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L-A-1
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$48,304,000.00
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5.750%
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A-1
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A-1
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L-A-2
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$14,405,000.00
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5.750%
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A-2
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A-2
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L-A-3
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$6,850,000.00
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6.250%
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A-3
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A-3
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L-A-4
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$20,654,000.00
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6.250%
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A-4
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A-4
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L-A-5
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$ 41,806,000.00
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7.000%
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A-5; A-9
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A-5
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L-A-6
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$69,300,000.00
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6.250%
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A-6
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A-6
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L-A-7
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$3,531,000.00
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6.250%
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A-7
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A-7
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L-A-8
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$1,690,000.00
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6.250%
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A-8
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A-8
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L-A-PO
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$179,227.49
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N/A
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N/A
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A-PO
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RL
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$0.00
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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L-A-RU
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$100.00
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6.250%
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RU
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RU
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L-B-1
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$4,667,000.00
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6.250%
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B-1
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B-1
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L-B-2
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$ 1,953,000.00
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6.250%
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B-2
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B-2
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L-B-3
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$1,411,000.00
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6.250%
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B-3
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B-3
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L-B-4
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$977,000.00
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6.250%
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B-4
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B-4
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L-B-5
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$651,000.00
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6.250%
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B-5
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B-5
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L-B-6
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$651,472.19
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6.250%
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B-6
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B-6
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$217,029,799.68
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On each
Distribution Date Available Funds shall be distributed with
respect to the Lower REMIC Interests in a manner such
that:
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interest accrued, if any, on each Lower REMIC
Interest is distributed with respect to each such Lower REMIC
Interest in the same manner that Accrued Certificate Interest is
distributed with respect to the Corresponding Class or Classes of
Certificates pursuant to Section 4.2; and
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principal is distributed (and Realized Losses
shall be allocated) with respect to each such Lower REMIC Interest
in the same manner that principal is distributed (and Realized
Losses is allocated) with respect to the Corresponding Classes or
Classes of Certificate pursuant to Section 4.2 and
Section 4.4.
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The
Lower REMIC Interest L-A-PO shall be entitled to receive the
Class PO Principal Distribution Amount.
The
foregoing REMIC structure is intended to cause all o