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EXECUTION VERSION
J.P. MORGAN ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION I
Depositor
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Master Servicer and Securities
Administrator
and
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Trustee
___________________________
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
Dated as of December 1, 2006
___________________________
J.P. MORGAN MORTGAGE TRUST 2006-S4
MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
8
SECTION 1.01
Definitions.
8
SECTION 1.02
Calculations Respecting Mortgage Loans.
49
ARTICLE II DECLARATION OF TRUST; ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES
49
SECTION 2.01
Creation and Declaration of Trust Fund; Conveyance of Mortgage
Loans.
49
SECTION 2.02
Acceptance of Trust Fund by Trustee; Review of Documentation for
Trust Fund.
53
SECTION 2.03
Representations and Warranties of the Depositor.
53
SECTION 2.04
Representations and Warranties as to the Mortgage Loans.
55
SECTION 2.05
Discovery of Breach; Repurchase or Substitution of Mortgage
Loans; Representations and
Warranties of Seller as to the Mortgage Loans.
56
SECTION 2.06
Grant Clause.
62
ARTICLE III THE CERTIFICATES
63
SECTION 3.01
The Certificates.
63
SECTION 3.02
Registration.
64
SECTION 3.03
Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.
64
SECTION 3.04
Cancellation of Certificates.
68
SECTION 3.05
Replacement of Certificates.
68
SECTION 3.06
Persons Deemed Owners.
68
SECTION 3.07
Temporary Certificates.
68
SECTION 3.08
Appointment of Paying Agent.
69
SECTION 3.09
Book-Entry Certificates.
69
ARTICLE IV ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRUST FUND
71
SECTION 4.01
Custodial Accounts; Distribution Account.
71
SECTION 4.02
[Reserved].
72
SECTION 4.03
[Reserved].
72
SECTION 4.04
Reports to Trustee and Certificateholders.
72
SECTION 4.05
Reserve Fund; Yield Maintenance Agreement.
75
ARTICLE V DISTRIBUTIONS TO HOLDERS OF CERTIFICATES
76
SECTION 5.01
Distributions Generally.
76
SECTION 5.02
Distributions from the Distribution Account.
76
SECTION 5.03
Allocation of Losses.
82
SECTION 5.04
Advances by Master Servicer.
83
SECTION 5.05
Compensating Interest Payments.
83
SECTION 5.06
Deposit of Uncertificated REMIC Interests.
84
ARTICLE VI CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE AND THE SECURITIES
ADMINISTRATOR; EVENTS OF DEFAULT
84
SECTION 6.01
Duties of Trustee and the Securities Administrator.
84
SECTION 6.02
Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee and the Securities
Administrator.
87
SECTION 6.03
Trustee and Securities Administrator Not Liable for
Certificates.
89
SECTION 6.04
Trustee and the Securities Administrator May Own
Certificates.
89
SECTION 6.05
Eligibility Requirements for Trustee.
89
SECTION 6.06
Resignation and Removal of Trustee and the Securities
Administrator.
90
SECTION 6.07
Successor Trustee and Successor Securities Administrator.
91
SECTION 6.08
Merger or Consolidation of Trustee or the Securities
Administrator.
92
SECTION 6.09
Appointment of Co-Trustee, Separate Trustee or Custodian.
92
SECTION 6.10
Authenticating Agents.
93
SECTION 6.11
Indemnification of the Trustee, the Master Servicer and the
Securities Administrator.
94
SECTION 6.12
Fees and Expenses of Securities Administrator and the
Trustee.
95
SECTION 6.13
Collection of Monies.
95
SECTION 6.14
Events of Default; Trustee To Act; Appointment of Successor.
96
SECTION 6.15
Additional Remedies of Trustee Upon Event of Default.
99
SECTION 6.16
Waiver of Defaults.
100
SECTION 6.17
Notification to Holders.
100
SECTION 6.18
Directions by Certificateholders and Duties of Trustee During
Event of Default.
100
SECTION 6.19
Action Upon Certain Failures of the Master Servicer and Upon
Event of Default.
101
SECTION 6.20
Preparation of Tax Returns and Other Reports.
101
SECTION 6.21
Determination of LIBOR.
102
ARTICLE VII PURCHASE OF MORTGAGE LOANS AND TERMINATION OF THE
TRUST FUND
102
SECTION 7.01
Purchase of Mortgage Loans; Termination of Trust Fund Upon
Purchase or Liquidation of All
Mortgage Loans.
102
SECTION 7.02
Procedure Upon Redemption or Termination of Trust Fund.
103
SECTION 7.03
Additional Trust Fund Termination Requirements.
104
ARTICLE VIII RIGHTS OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
104
SECTION 8.01
Limitation on Rights of Holders.
104
SECTION 8.02
Access to List of Holders.
105
SECTION 8.03
Acts of Holders of Certificates.
106
ARTICLE IX ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE
MASTER SERVICER
107
SECTION 9.01
Duties of the Master Servicer; Enforcement of Servicers; and
Master Servicer’s Obligations.
107
SECTION 9.02
Assumption of Master Servicing by Trustee.
109
SECTION 9.03
Representations and Warranties of the Master Servicer.
109
SECTION 9.04
Compensation to the Master Servicer.
111
SECTION 9.05
Merger or Consolidation.
111
SECTION 9.06
Resignation of Master Servicer.
112
SECTION 9.07
Assignment or Delegation of Duties by the Master Servicer.
112
SECTION 9.08
Limitation on Liability of the Master Servicer and Others.
113
SECTION 9.09
Indemnification; Third-Party Claims.
113
ARTICLE X REMIC ADMINISTRATION
114
SECTION 10.01
REMIC Administration.
114
SECTION 10.02
Prohibited Transactions and Activities.
116
SECTION 10.03
Indemnification with Respect to Prohibited Transactions or Loss
of REMIC Status.
116
SECTION 10.04
REO Property.
117
SECTION 10.05
Fidelity.
117
ARTICLE XI EXCHANGE ACT REPORTING
118
SECTION 11.01
Form 10-D Reporting.
118
SECTION 11.02
Form 10-K Reporting.
119
SECTION 11.03
Form 8-K Reporting.
121
SECTION 11.04
Delisting; Amendment; Late Filing of Reports.
122
SECTION 11.05
Annual Statements of Compliance.
123
SECTION 11.06
Annual Assessments of Compliance.
123
SECTION 11.07
Accountant’s Attestation.
125
SECTION 11.08
Sarbanes-Oxley Certification.
126
SECTION 11.09
Indemnification.
127
SECTION 11.10
Additional Information.
128
SECTION 11.11
[Reserved.]
128
SECTION 11.12
Intention of the Parties and Interpretation.
128
SECTION 11.13
Notice under Article XI.
129
ARTICLE XII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
129
SECTION 12.01
Binding Nature of Agreement; Assignment.
129
SECTION 12.02
Entire Agreement.
129
SECTION 12.03
Amendment.
129
SECTION 12.04
Voting Rights.
131
SECTION 12.05
Provision of Information.
131
SECTION 12.06
Governing Law.
131
SECTION 12.07
Notices.
132
SECTION 12.08
Severability of Provisions.
132
SECTION 12.09
Indulgences; No Waivers.
132
SECTION 12.10
Headings Not To Affect Interpretation.
132
SECTION 12.11
Benefits of Agreement.
132
SECTION 12.12
Special Notices to the Rating Agencies.
133
SECTION 12.13
Conflicts.
134
SECTION 12.14
Counterparts.
134
SECTION 12.15
No Petitions.
134
ATTACHMENTS
Exhibit A
Forms of Certificates
Exhibit B
Form of Residual Certificate Transfer Affidavit (Transferee)
Exhibit C
Form of Residual Certificate Transfer Affidavit (Transferor)
Exhibit D
[Reserved]
Exhibit E
List of Purchase and Servicing Agreements, Servicing Agreements
and Purchase Agreements
Exhibit F
List of Custodial Agreements
Exhibit G
[Reserved]
Exhibit H
Form of Rule 144A Transfer Certificate
Exhibit I
Form of Purchaser’s Letter for Institutional Accredited
Investors
Exhibit J
Form of ERISA Transfer Affidavit
Exhibit K
Form of Letter of Representations with the Depository Trust
Company
Exhibit L
Form of Custodian Certification
Exhibit M
Relevant Servicing Criteria
Exhibit N
Form 10-D, Form 8-K and Form 10-K Reporting Responsibility
Exhibit O
Yield Maintenance Agreement Schedule
Exhibit P
[Reserved]
Exhibit Q
Form of Annual Certification
Exhibit R
Additional Disclosure Notification
Schedule A
Mortgage Loan Schedule
This POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of December 1,
2006 (the "Agreement"), by and among J.P. MORGAN ACCEPTANCE
CORPORATION I, a Delaware corporation, as depositor (the
"Depositor"), U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee (the
"Trustee") and WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., in its dual capacities as
master servicer (the "Master Servicer") and securities
administrator (the "Securities Administrator") and
acknowledged by J.P. MORGAN MORTGAGE ACQUISITION CORP., a Delaware
corporation, as seller (the "Seller"), for purposes of Sections
2.04 and 2.05 and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a
national banking association and THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST
COMPANY, N.A., a national banking association, as custodians (each
a "Custodian and together, the "Custodians"), for purposes of
Sections 11.06, 11.07 and 11.09.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
The Depositor has acquired the Mortgage Loans from the Seller
and at the Closing Date is the owner of the Mortgage Loans and the
other property being conveyed by the Depositor to the Trustee
hereunder for inclusion in the Trust Fund. On the Closing
Date, the Depositor will acquire the Certificates from the Trustee
as consideration for the Depositor’s transfer to the Trust
Fund of the Mortgage Loans and the other property constituting the
Trust Fund. The Depositor has duly authorized the execution
and delivery of this Agreement to provide for the conveyance to the
Trustee of the Mortgage Loans and the other property constituting
the Trust Fund. All covenants and agreements made by the
Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator and
the Trustee herein, with respect to the Mortgage Loans and the
other property constituting the Trust Fund, are for the benefit of
the Holders from time to time of the Certificates. The
Depositor, the Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Securities
Administrator are entering into this Agreement, and the Trustee is
accepting the Trust Fund created hereby, for good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged.
As provided herein, the Trustee shall elect that the Trust Fund
(exclusive of the Yield Maintenance Agreement and the Reserve Fund)
be treated for federal income tax purposes as comprising three real
estate mortgage investment conduits (each, a "REMIC"): Lower-Tier
REMIC 1, Middle-Tier REMIC 1 and Upper-Tier REMIC 1.
Each Certificate, other than the Residual
Certificates, shall represent ownership of a regular interest in
Upper-Tier REMIC 1 for purposes of the REMIC Provisions.
Lower-Tier REMIC 1 shall hold the assets of the Trust Fund
(other than the Yield Maintenance Agreement and the Reserve Fund)
and shall issue several uncertificated interests, including the
LT-R-1 Interest, which is hereby designated as the sole residual
interest in Lower-Tier REMIC 1. Each remaining uncertificated
interest in Lower-Tier REMIC 1 is hereby designated as a REMIC
regular interest.
Middle-Tier REMIC 1 shall hold the uncertificated REMIC regular
interests issued by Lower-Tier REMIC 1 and shall issue several
uncertificated interests, including the MT-R-1 Interest, which is
hereby designated as the sole residual interest in Middle-Tier
REMIC 1. Each remaining uncertificated interest in
Middle-Tier REMIC 1 is hereby designated as a REMIC regular
interest.
Upper-Tier REMIC 1 shall hold the uncertificated REMIC regular
interests issued by Middle-Tier REMIC 1. Each of the
Certificates (other than the Class A-R Certificate and the
Exchangeable Certificates) and the Uncertificated REMIC Interests
represent ownership of regular interests in Upper-Tier REMIC 1.
Upper-Tier REMIC 1 shall also issue the Class A-R
Certificate, which is hereby designated as the sole residual
interest in Upper-Tier REMIC 1.
The latest possible maturity date of all REMIC regular interests
created in this Agreement shall be the Latest Possible Maturity
Date.
The Lower-Tier REMIC 1
The Lower Tier Interests in Lower-Tier REMIC 1 shall have the
class designations, initial principal amounts, interest rates and
corresponding Pool, Subgroup or Class of Certificates as set forth
in the following table:
|
Class Designation
|
Initial Principal Amount
|
Certificate Interest Rate
|
Corresponding Pool, Subgroup
or
Class of Certificates
|
|
LT1-SG1-A (0.9% of SP Subgroup
1)
|
(1)
|
5.50%
|
1
|
|
LT1-SG1-B (0.1% of SP Subgroup
1)
|
(1)
|
5.50%
|
1
|
|
LT1-SG1-C (Excess of Subgroup 1)
|
(1)
|
5.50%
|
1
|
|
LT1-SG2-A (0.9% of SP Subgroup
2)
|
(1)
|
6.00%
|
2
|
|
LT1-SG2-B (0.1% of SP Subgroup
2)
|
(1)
|
6.00%
|
2
|
|
LT1-SG2-C (Excess of Subgroup 2)
|
(1)
|
6.00%
|
2
|
|
LT1-SG3-A (0.9% of SP Subgroup
3)
|
(1)
|
7.00%
|
3
|
|
LT1-SG3-B (0.1% of SP Subgroup
3)
|
(1)
|
7.00%
|
3
|
|
LT1-SG3-C (Excess of Subgroup 3)
|
(1)
|
7.00%
|
3
|
|
LTA-P
|
(3)
|
(4)
|
A-P
|
|
LTA-X
|
(2)
|
(4)
|
A-X
|
|
LT1-P
|
$100.00
|
0.00%
|
N/A
|
|
LT-R-1
|
(5)
|
(5)
|
N/A
|
_______________
(1)
Each Class A Interest will have a principal balance
initially equal to 0.9% of the Pool Subordinate Amount or Subgroup
Subordinate Amount, as applicable in each case, the ("SP"), of its
corresponding Pool or Subgroup, as applicable. Each
Class B Interest will have a principal balance initially equal
to 0.1% of the Pool Subordinate Amount or Subgroup Subordinate
Amount, as applicable, of its corresponding Pool or Subgroup, as
applicable. The initial principal balance of each Class C
Interest will equal the excess of the initial aggregate principal
balance of its corresponding Pool or Subgroup, as applicable (less
the initial principal balance of any principal-only interest in the
Lower-Tier REMIC 1 payable from such Pool or Subgroup) over the
initial aggregate principal balances of the Class A and
Class B Interests corresponding to such Pool or Subgroup, as
applicable.
(2)
This interest shall be an interest-only regular interest and
shall bear interest on its notional principal amount, which shall
be equal at all times to the Class Notional Amount of the Class A-X
Certificates.
(3)
This Lower Tier Interest shall have an initial principal balance
equal to the initial principal balance of its Corresponding Class
of Certificates.
(4)
This Lower Tier Interest shall bear interest at the same rate as
the Certificate Interest Rate of its Corresponding Class of
Certificates.
(5)
The Class LT-R-1 Interest is the sole class of residual
interest in the Lower-Tier REMIC 1. It has no principal balance and
pays no principal or interest.
On each Distribution Date, the Available Distribution Amount
shall be distributed with respect to the Lower Tier Interests in
the following manner:
(1)
Interest shall be distributed with respect to each Lower-Tier
Interest at the rate, or according to the formulas, described
above;
(2)
Principal if no Cross-Over Situation Exists. If no Cross-Over
Situation exists with respect to any Class of Interests, then
Principal Amounts arising with respect to each Pool or Subgroup, as
applicable, will be allocated: first to cause the Pool's or
Subgroup’s, as applicable, corresponding Class A and
Class B to equal, respectively, 0.9% of the related SP and
0.1% of the SP; and second to the Pool's or Subgroup’s, as
applicable, corresponding Class C Interest;
(3)
Principal if a Cross-Over Situation Exists. If a Cross-Over
Situation exists with respect to the Class A and Class B
Interests then:
(a)
if the Calculation Rate in respect of the outstanding
Class A and Class B Interests relating to a Group of
Subordinate Certificates would be less than the Certificate
Interest Rate of such Group of Subordinate Certificates, Principal
Relocation Payments will be made proportionately to the outstanding
Class A Interests prior to any other Principal Distributions
from each such Pool or Subgroup, as applicable; and
(b)
if the Calculation Rate in respect of the outstanding
Class A and Class B Interests would be greater than the
Certificate Interest Rate of such Group of Subordinate
Certificates, Principal Relocation Payments will be made
proportionately to the outstanding Class B Interests prior to
any other Principal Distributions from each such Pool or Subgroup,
as applicable.
In each case, Principal Relocation Payments will be made so as
to cause the Calculation Rate in respect of the outstanding
Class A and Class B Interests relating to a Group of
Subordinate Certificates to equal the Certificate Interest Rate of
such Group or Subordinate Certificates. With respect to each Pool
or Subgroup, as applicable, if (and to the extent that) the sum of
(a) the principal payments comprising the Principal Remittance
Amount received during the Due Period and (b) the Realized Losses,
are insufficient to make the necessary reductions of principal on
the Class A and Class B Interests, then interest will be
added to the Pool's or Subgroup’s, as applicable, other
Interests that are not receiving Principal Relocation Payments, in
proportion to their principal balances.
(c)
The outstanding aggregate Class A and Class B
Interests for all Pools and Subgroups will not be reduced below 1
percent of the excess of (i) the aggregate outstanding Class
Principal Amounts of all Pools and Subgroups as of the end of any
Due Period over (ii) the Senior Certificates for all Pools and
Subgroups as of the related Distribution Date (after taking into
account distributions of principal on such Distribution Date).
(d)
If (and to the extent that) the limitation in paragraph (c)
prevents the distribution of principal to the Class A and
Class B Interests of a Pool or Subgroup, as applicable, and if
the Pool's or Subgroup’s, as applicable, Class C
Interest has already been reduced to zero, then the excess
principal from that Pool or Subgroup, as applicable, will be paid
to the Class C Interests of the other Pool or Subgroup, as
applicable, the aggregate Class A and Class B Interests
of which are less than one percent of the Pool Subordinate Amount
or Subgroup Subordinate Amount, as applicable. If the Pool or
Subgroup, as applicable, of the Class C Interest that receives
such payment has a weighted average Net Mortgage Rate below the
weighted average Net Mortgage Rate of the Pool making the payment,
then the payment will be treated by the Lower-Tier REMIC 1 as a
Realized Loss. Conversely, if the Pool or Subgroup, as applicable,
of the Class C Interest that receives such payment has a
weighted average Net Mortgage Rate above the weighted average Net
Mortgage Rate of the Pool or Subgroup, as applicable, making the
payment, then the payment will be treated by the Lower-Tier REMIC 1
as a reimbursement for prior Realized Losses.
On each Distribution Date, Prepayment Penalties with respect to
the Mortgage Loans shall be distributed to the Class LT1-P
Interest, which shall be entitled to receive its principal balance
on the same Distribution Date that principal is payable to the
Class P Certificates.
MIDDLE-TIER REMIC 1
The Lower-Tier Interests in Middle-Tier REMIC 1 shall have the
class designations, initial principal amounts, interest rates and
corresponding Pool, Subgroup or Class of Certificates as set forth
in the following table:
|
Class Designation
|
Interest Rate
|
Initial Principal Amount
|
Corresponding Class of
Certificates
|
|
MT1-A-1
|
6.00%
|
(2)
|
A-1, A-2
|
|
MT1-A-3
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A-3
|
|
MT1-A-4
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A-4
|
|
MT1-A-5
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A-5
|
|
MT1-A-6
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A-6
|
|
MT1-A-7
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A-7
|
|
MT1-A-8
|
7.00%
|
(2)
|
A-8, A-9
|
|
MT1-A-10
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A-10
|
|
MT1-A-11
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A-11
|
|
MT1-A-12
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A-12
|
|
MTA-P
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A-P
|
|
MTA-X
|
(1)
|
(4)
|
A-X
|
|
MT-M
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
M
|
|
MT1-B-1
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
B-1
|
|
MT1-B-2
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
B-2
|
|
MT1-B-3
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
B-3
|
|
MT1-B-4
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
B-4
|
|
MT1-B-5
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
B-5
|
|
MT1-B-6
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
B-6
|
|
MT1-P
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
P
|
|
MT1-A-R
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
A-R
|
|
MT1-R-1
|
(3)
|
(3)
|
N/A
|
(1) This Lower-Tier Interest shall have an interest rate equal
to that of its Corresponding Class of Certificates.
(2) This Lower-Tier Interest shall have an initial principal
amount equal to that of its Corresponding Class of Certificates
(or, in the case of the Class MT1-A-1 and Class MT1-A-8 Interests,
the Class A-1 and Class A-8 Certificates, respectively.)
(3) The Class MT-R-1 Interest is the sole class of
residual interest in the Middle-Tier REMIC 1. It has no principal
balance and pays no principal or interest.
(4) This Lower-Tier Interest shall not have a principal
balance but shall bear interest on its notional principal balance
which shall be equal at all times to the Class A-X Notional
Amount.
On each Distribution Date, the Available Distribution Amount
with respect to Aggregate Pool I shall be distributed with respect
to the Lower Tier Interests in Middle-Tier REMIC 1 in the following
manner:
(1)
Interest shall be distributed with respect to each Lower-Tier
Interest at the rate, or according to the formulas, described
above;
(2)
Principal and Realized Losses shall be allocated to each
Lower-Tier Interest in an amount equal to that allocable to each
Corresponding Class of Certificates for such Lower-Tier Interest on
such Distribution Date.
On each Distribution Date, the Class MT1-P Interest shall be
entitled to receive all amounts distributed with respect to the
Class LT1-P Interest.
The Certificates
The following table sets forth (or describes) the Class
designation, Certificate Interest Rate, initial Class Principal
Amount (or initial Class Notional Amount) and minimum denomination
for each Class of Certificates comprising interests in the Trust
Fund created hereunder and the Exchangeable Certificates.
|
Class Designation
|
Certificate Interest
Rate
|
Initial Class Principal Amount or
Class Notional Amount
|
Minimum Denominations or
Percentage Interest
|
|
A-1
|
(1)
|
123,287,234
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-2
|
(2)
|
(3)
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-3
|
6.000%
|
54,703,000
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-4
|
6.000%
|
8,417,000
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-5
|
6.000%
|
47,300,000
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-6
|
6.000%
|
68,000,000
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-7
|
6.000%
|
$100,000,000
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-8
|
(4)
|
314,565,458
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-9
|
(5)
|
(6)
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-10(10)
|
5.500%
|
13,450,000
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-11(10)
|
5.500%
|
12,786,500
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-12(10)
|
5.500%
|
1,047,048
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-13(11)
|
5.500%
|
$27,283,548
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-P
|
(7)
|
$395,418.79
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-X
|
6.000%
|
(12)
|
$
100,000
|
|
M
|
(8)
|
12,451,000
|
$
100,000
|
|
B-1
|
(8)
|
4,669,200
|
$
100,000
|
|
B-2
|
(8)
|
5,836,400
|
$
100,000
|
|
B-3
|
(8)
|
4,280,100
|
$
100,000
|
|
B-4
|
(8)
|
2,723,700
|
$
100,000
|
|
B-5
|
(8)
|
2,334,500
|
$
100,000
|
|
B-6
|
(8)
|
1,945,559
|
$
100,000
|
|
A-R
|
6.000%
|
$100
|
100%
|
|
P
|
N/A
|
$100(9)
|
100%
|
_______________
(1)
On each Distribution Date, the Certificate Interest Rate on the
Class A-1 Certificates will be equal to LIBOR plus the related
Certificate Margin, subject to a minimum Certificate Interest Rate
of 0.550% per annum and a maximum Certificate Interest Rate of
9.500% per annum. Any interest payable on the Class A-1
Certificates in excess of the interest payable to such Classes at a
Certificate Interest Rate of 6.000% per annum will be payable
solely from amounts received in respect of the Yield Maintenance
Agreement. After the Distribution Date in March 2011, the
maximum Certificate Interest Rate applicable to the Class A-1
Certificates is 6.00% per annum.
(2)
The Certificate Interest Rate on the Class A-2 Certificates will
be equal to the excess of (a) 5.450% over (b) LIBOR, but not less
than 0.000% per annum.
(3)
Interest will accrue on the Class A-2 Notional Amount.
(4)
On each Distribution Date, the Certificate Interest Rate on the
Class A-8 Certificates will be equal to LIBOR plus the related
Certificate Margin, subject to a minimum Certificate Interest Rate
of 0.380% per annum and a maximum Certificate Interest Rate of
7.000% per annum.
(5)
The Certificate Interest Rate on the Class A-9 Certificates will
be equal to the excess of (a) 6.620% over (b) LIBOR, but not less
than 0.000% per annum.
(6)
Interest will accrue on the Class A-9 Notional Amount.
(7)
The Class A-P Certificates will not receive any distributions of
interest.
(8)
The Certificate Interest Rate applicable to each of the Class M,
Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6
Certificates will equal a per annum rate calculated as the quotient
expressed as a percentage of (a) the sum of (i) the product of (x)
5.500% and (y) the Subgroup Subordinate Amount relating to Subgroup
1 for that Distribution Date, (ii) the product of (x) 6.000% and
(y) the Subgroup Subordinate Amount relating to Subgroup 2 for that
Distribution Date and (iii) the product of (x) 7.000% and (y) the
Subgroup Subordinate Amount relating to Subgroup 3 for that
Distribution Date, divided by (b) the aggregate of the Subgroup
Subordinate Amounts relating to each Subgroup for that Distribution
Date.
(9)
The Class P Certificates will be entitled to all prepayment
penalties on the Mortgage Loans.
(10)
These classes shall be issued in uncertificated form and shall
constitute theUncertificated REMIC Interests.
Each Class of Exchangeable REMIC Certificates
issued under the Trust Agreement will be entitled to the same
distributions of principal and interest as the corresponding
Uncertificated REMIC Interest.
(11)
The Class A-13 Certificates are Exchangeable Certificates which
will not be issued under this Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
(12)
The Class A-X Certificates will not receive any distributions of
principal. Interest will accrue on the Class A-X Notional
Amount, which is initially equal to $2,169,341.22.
As of the Cut-off Date, the Mortgage Loans had an Aggregate
Stated Principal Balance of $778,192,218.26.
The foregoing REMIC structure is intended to cause all of the
cash from the Mortgage Loans to flow through to Upper-Tier REMIC 1
as cash flow on a REMIC regular interest, without creating any
shortfall—actual or potential (other than for credit losses)
to any REMIC regular interest. To the extent that the
structure is believed to diverge from such intention the parties
identifying such ambiguity shall notify the other parties hereto
and the parties involved will resolve such ambiguities to
accomplish such result and will to the extent necessary rectify any
drafting errors or seek clarification to the structure without
Certificateholder approval (but with guidance of Counsel) to
accomplish such intention, making any amendments in accordance with
Section 12.03 of this Agreement.
In consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the
Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator and
the Trustee hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01
Definitions.
The following words and phrases, unless the context otherwise
requires, shall have the following meanings:
Accountant : A Person engaged in the practice of
accounting who (except when this Agreement provides that an
Accountant must be Independent) may be employed by or affiliated
with the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor.
Accountant’s Attestation : The attestation
required from an Accountant for each of the Master Servicer, the
Securities Administrator, the Custodians and each Servicing
Function Participant pursuant to Section 11.07.
Accretion Directed Certificates : The Class A-11
Certificates.
Accretion Termination Date :
The Class A-12 Accretion Termination Date.
Accrual Amount: The Class A-12 Accrual Amount.
Accrual Certificates : The Class A-12 Certificates.
Accrual Period : With respect to any Distribution Date
and any Class of Certificates, other than the Class A-1, Class A-2,
Class A-8 and Class A-9 Certificates, the calendar month preceding
the month in which the Distribution Date occurs. For each
Distribution Date and the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-8 and Class
A-9 Certificates, the period from and including the 25th day of the
month immediately preceding such Distribution Date to and including
the 24th day of the month of such Distribution Date. Interest
shall accrue on all Classes of Certificates and on all Lower-Tier
Interests on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve
30-day months.
Acknowledgements : The Assignment, Assumption and
Recognition Agreements assigning from the Seller to the Depositor
and from the Depositor to the Trustee, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, their respective rights in the Purchase and
Servicing Agreements and Servicing Agreements set forth in Exhibit
E.
Act : The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Additional Disclosure Notification : As defined in
Section 11.01.
Additional Form 10-D Disclosure : As defined in Section
11.01.
Additional Form 10-K Disclosure : As defined in Section
11.02.
Additional Servicer means each affiliate of each Servicer
or the Depositor meeting the requirements of Item 1108(a)(2)(ii) of
Regulation AB that Services any of the Mortgage Loans and each
Person who is not an affiliate of any Servicer, who Services 10% or
more of the Mortgage Loans (measured by aggregate Stated Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loans, annually at the commencement of the
calendar year prior to the year in which an Item 1123 Certification
is required to be delivered). For clarification purposes,
each Servicer, the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator
are Additional Servicers.
Advance : With respect to any Distribution Date and any
Mortgage Loan, the payments required to be made by the Servicer of
such Mortgage Loan or, if the applicable Servicer fails to make
such payments, the Master Servicer, pursuant to this Agreement or
the applicable Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing
Agreement, as applicable, the amount of any such payment being
equal to the aggregate of the payments of principal and interest
(net of the applicable Servicing Fee and any lender paid mortgage
insurance premiums 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 or the applicable
Servicer has determined would constitute Nonrecoverable Advances if
advanced.
Adverse REMIC Event : Either (i) loss of status as a
REMIC, within the meaning of Section 860D of the Code, for any
group of assets identified as a REMIC in the Preliminary Statement
to this Agreement, or (ii) imposition of any tax, including the tax
imposed under Section 860F(a)(1) on prohibited transactions, and
the tax imposed under Section 860G(d) on certain contributions to a
REMIC, on any REMIC created hereunder to the extent such tax would
be payable from assets held as part of the Trust Fund.
Affiliate : With respect to any specified Person, any
other Person controlling or controlled by or under common control
with such specified Person. For the purposes of this
definition, "control" when used with respect to any specified
Person means the power to direct the management and policies of
such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership
of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms
"controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
Aggregate Expense Rate : With respect to any Mortgage
Loan, the Servicing Fee Rate and any applicable mortgage insurance
policy premium payable by any Servicer.
Aggregate Pool : The Mortgage Loans in the aggregate.
Aggregate Stated Principal Balance : As to any
Distribution Date, the aggregate of the Stated Principal Balances
for all Mortgage Loans (and when such term is used with respect to
a particular Mortgage Group or the Aggregate Pool, the aggregate of
the Stated Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans or Mortgage
Components, as applicable, in such Mortgage Group or the Aggregate
Pool) which were outstanding on the Due Date in the month preceding
the month of such Distribution Date.
Aggregate Voting Interests : The aggregate of the Voting
Interests of all the Certificates under this Agreement.
Agreement : This Pooling and Servicing Agreement and all
amendments and supplements hereto.
American Home : American Home Mortgage Corp. or any
successor in interest.
American Home Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan
originated by American Home and listed on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule.
American Home Purchase Agreement : Each agreement between
the Seller and American Home listed under the heading "Purchase
Agreements" in Exhibit E hereto.
Applicable Credit Support Percentage : As to each Class
of Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates and any Distribution
Date, the sum of the related Subordinate Class Percentage of that
Class and the aggregate Subordinate Class Percentage of all other
Classes of Subordinate Certificates that rank lower in priority
than such Class.
Apportioned Principal Balance : As to any Distribution
Date and each Class of Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates, the
Class Principal Amount thereof immediately prior to that
Distribution Date multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which
is the applicable Subgroup Subordinate Amount for that date and the
denominator of which is the sum of the Subgroup Subordinate Amounts
(in the aggregate) in the Aggregate Pool.
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; provided, however, that with respect to certain
Mortgage Loans financing the acquisition of the related Mortgaged
Property is in New York State, the Appraised Value will be based
solely on the appraisal made at the time of origination of such
Mortgage Loan and (ii) with respect to a Refinancing Mortgage
Loan, the value of the Mortgaged Property based upon the appraisal
made at the time of the origination of such Refinancing Mortgage
Loan.
Assessment of Compliance : The certification
required from each of the Master Servicer, the Securities
Administrator, the Custodians and each Servicing Function
Participant pursuant to Section 11.06.
Assignment : The Assignments, each dated as of December
1, 2006 between the Seller and the applicable Custodian, pursuant
to which the Seller assigns to the Trustee all of its rights, title
and interest under the Custodial Agreements to the extent relating
to certain specified mortgage loans.
Assignment of Mortgage : An assignment of the Mortgage,
notice of transfer or equivalent instrument, in recordable form,
sufficient under the laws of the jurisdiction wherein the related
Mortgaged Property is located to reflect the sale of the Mortgage
to the Trustee, which assignment, notice of transfer or equivalent
instrument may be in the form of one or more blanket assignments
covering the Mortgage Loans secured by Mortgaged Properties located
in the same jurisdiction, if permitted by law; provided,
however , that neither the Trustee nor the Custodians shall be
responsible for determining whether any such assignment is in
recordable form.
Assignment of Proprietary Lease : With respect to a
Cooperative Loan, an assignment of the Proprietary Lease sufficient
under the laws of the jurisdiction wherein the related Cooperative
Unit is located to reflect the assignment of such Proprietary
Lease.
Assignment of Recognition Agreement : With respect to a
Cooperative Loan, an assignment of the Recognition Agreement
sufficient under the laws of the jurisdiction wherein the related
Cooperative Unit is located to reflect the assignment of such
Recognition Agreement.
Authenticating Agent : Any authenticating agent appointed
by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.10 until any successor
authenticating agent for the Certificates is named, and thereafter
"Authenticating Agent" shall mean any such successor.
The Authenticating Agent shall be Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. for
so long as it is acting as Securities Administrator under this
Agreement.
Authorized Officer : Any Person who may execute an
Officer’s Certificate on behalf of the Depositor.
Available Distribution Amount : With respect to any
Distribution Date and (a) the Aggregate Pool, the total amount of
all cash received from each Servicer on the Mortgage Loans for
deposit into the Distribution Account in respect of such
Distribution Date, including (1) all scheduled installments of
interest (net of the related Servicing Fees and lender paid
mortgage insurance premiums, if any) and principal collected on the
related Mortgage Loans and due during the Due Period related to
such Distribution Date, together with any Advances in respect
thereof, (2) all Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds and
Subsequent Recoveries, in each case for such Distribution Date, (3)
all Principal Prepayments, together with any accrued interest
thereon, identified as having been received from the related
Mortgage Loans during the related Prepayment Period, (4) any
amounts paid by the Master Servicer and/or received from the
Servicers in respect of Prepayment Interest Shortfalls with respect
to the related Mortgage Loans, (5) the aggregate Purchase Price of
all Defective Mortgage Loans purchased from the Trust Fund during
the related Prepayment Period and (6) on the Distribution Date
on which the Trust Fund is to be terminated pursuant to Article VII
hereof, that portion of the Redemption Price in respect of
principal, up to the Par Value, minus:
(A)
all related fees, charges and other amounts payable or
reimbursable to the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator,
the Custodian or the Trustee under this Agreement or to the related
Servicer under the applicable Purchase and Servicing Agreement or
Servicing Agreement, as applicable;
(B)
in the case of (2), (3), (4) and (5) above, any related
unreimbursed expenses incurred by the related Servicer in
connection with a liquidation or foreclosure and any unreimbursed
Advances or Servicing Advances due to the Master Servicer or the
related Servicer;
(C)
any related unreimbursed Nonrecoverable Advances due to the
Master Servicer or the Servicers; and
(D)
in the case of (1) through (4) above, any related amounts
collected which are determined to be attributable to a subsequent
Due Period or Prepayment Period;
and (b) each Subgroup, an amount equal to the portion of the
Available Distribution Account for the Aggregate Pool, that is
allocable to that Subgroup.
Bankruptcy : As to any Person, the making of an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, the filing of a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy, adjudication as a bankrupt or insolvent,
the entry of an order for relief in a bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding, the seeking of reorganization, arrangement,
composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar
relief, or seeking, consenting to or acquiescing in the appointment
of a trustee, receiver or liquidator, dissolution, or termination,
as the case may be, of such Person pursuant to the provisions of
either the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar state laws.
Bankruptcy Code : The United States Bankruptcy Code of
1986, as amended.
Bankruptcy Coverage Termination Date : The point in time
at which the Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount is reduced to
zero.
Bankruptcy Loss : With respect to any Mortgage Loan or
Mortgage Component, as applicable, 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
related Servicer has notified the Master Servicer in writing that
the related Servicer is diligently pursuing any remedies that may
exist in connection with the related Mortgage Loan and either (A)
the Mortgage Loan is not in default with regard to payments due
thereunder or (B) delinquent payments of principal and interest
under the Mortgage Loan and any related escrow payments in respect
of such Mortgage Loan are being advanced on a current basis by the
related Servicer or by the Master Servicer if such Servicer fails
to do so, in either case without giving effect to any Debt Service
Reduction or Deficient Valuation, as reported by the related
Servicer or the Master Servicer to the Securities
Administrator.
Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount : As of any date of
determination and the Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates, 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 Mezzanine and Subordinate
Certificates since the Cut-off Date and (ii) any permissible
reductions in such 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 related Classes of Certificates
rated by it.
Basis Risk Shortfall Carryover Amount : For any
Distribution Date after the first Distribution Date and on or prior
to the Yield Maintenance Agreement Termination Date and the Class
A-1 Certificates, an amount equal to the sum of (i) the excess of
(x) the amount of interest such class accrued on such Distribution
Date at its Certificate Interest Rate for such Distribution Date
over (y) the amount of interest such class of Certificates accrued
for such Distribution Date at 6.000% per annum and (ii) the unpaid
portion of any Basis Risk Shortfall Carryover Amount for such class
of Certificates from prior Distribution Dates together with
interest accrued on such unpaid portion for the most recently ended
Accrual Period at the excess of the Certificate Interest Rate for
such Class and 6.00% per annum.
Book-Entry Certificates : Beneficial interests in
Certificates designated as "Book-Entry Certificates" in this
Agreement, ownership and transfers of which shall be evidenced or
made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in
Section 3.09; provided, that after the occurrence of a Book-Entry
Termination whereupon book-entry registration and transfer are no
longer permitted and Definitive Certificates are to be issued to
Certificate Owners, such Book-Entry Certificates shall no longer be
"Book-Entry Certificates." As of the Closing Date, all
Classes of Certificates constitute Book-Entry Certificates, other
than the Class B-4, Class B-5, Class B-6, Class A-R and Class P
Certificates and the Uncertificated REMIC Interests.
Book-Entry Termination : The occurrence of any of the
following events: (i) the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or
able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the
Book Entry Certificates, and the Depositor is unable to locate a
qualified successor; or (ii) the Depositor at its option advises
the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar in writing that it elects
to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency.
Bring-Down Date : With respect to any Mortgage
Loan, the date as of which the applicable Originator makes the
representations and warranties with respect to such Mortgage Loan
and as specified in the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or
Purchase Agreement, as applicable.
Business Day : Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a
Sunday or (ii) a day on which banking institutions in New York, New
York or, if other than New York, the cities in which the Corporate
Trust Offices of the Trustee and the Securities Administrator are
located, are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to
be closed.
Calculation Rate : For each Distribution Date and the
Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates, in the case of the Class A
and Class B Interests in Lower-Tier REMIC 1, the product of (i) 10
and (ii) the weighted average rate of the outstanding related Class
A and Class B Interests, treating each such Class A Interest as
capped at zero or reduced by a fixed percentage of 100% of the
interest accruing on such Class.
Cap Strike Rate : With respect to any Distribution
Date and the Yield Maintenance Agreement, the applicable percentage
in the schedule set forth in Exhibit O for such Distribution
Date.
Certificate : Any one of the certificates signed by the
Trustee, or the Securities Administrator on the Trustee’s
behalf, and authenticated by the Securities Administrator as
Authenticating Agent in substantially the forms attached hereto as
Exhibit A and the Uncertificated REMIC Interests.
Certificate Group : The Senior Certificates that relate
to Subgroup 1, Subgroup 2 or Subgroup 3.
Certificate Interest Rate : With respect to each Class of
Certificates and any Distribution Date, the applicable per annum
rate described in the Preliminary Statement hereto.
Certificate Margin : With respect to the Class A-1
Certificates and any applicable Distribution Date, 0.55%.
With respect to the Class A-8 Certificates and any applicable
Distribution Date, 0.38%.
Certificate Owner : With respect to a Book-Entry
Certificate, the Person who is the owner of such Book-Entry
Certificate, as reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency, or
on the books of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing
Agency (directly or as an indirect participant, in accordance with
the rules of such Clearing Agency).
Certificate Principal Amount : With respect to any
Certificate (other than an Interest-Only Certificate) the
Certificate Principal Amount as of the Closing Date as reduced by
all amounts previously distributed on that Certificate in respect
of principal and the principal portion of any Realized Losses
(including Excess Losses) previously allocated to that Certificate
plus, in the case of any Accrual Certificates, all prior Accrual
Amounts allocated to such Certificate, respectively; provided,
however, that the aggregate Certificate Principal Amount of each
class of Certificates (other than the Interest-Only Certificates)
to which Realized Losses have been allocated shall be increased,
sequentially, in the order of payment priority, by the amount of
Subsequent Recoveries distributed as principal to any class of
Certificates, but not by more than the amount of Realized Losses
previously allocated to reduce the Certificate Principal Amount of
such class of Certificates. The Certificate Principal Amount
of a class of Mezzanine or Subordinate Certificates may be
additionally reduced by allocation of any Subordinate Certificate
Writedown Amount.
Certificate Register and Certificate Registrar : The
register maintained and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section
3.02. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. will act as Certificate
Registrar for so long as it is the Securities Administrator under
this Agreement.
Certificateholder : The meaning provided in the
definition of "Holder."
Certification Parties : has the meaning set forth in
Section 11.08.
Certifying Person : has the meaning set forth in Section
11.08.
Chase Originator : CHF and/or JPMCB, as the context
requires.
Chase Originator Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan
originated by a Chase Originator and listed on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule.
Chase Originator Purchase and Servicing Agreement :
Each agreement between the Seller and a Chase Originator
listed under the heading "Purchase and Servicing Agreements" in
Exhibit E hereto, as modified by the related Acknowledgement.
Chevy Chase : Chevy Chase Bank, F.S.B., or any
successor in interest.
Chevy Chase Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan
originated by Chevy Chase and listed on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule.
Chevy Chase Purchase and Servicing Agreement : Each
agreement between the Seller and Chevy Chase, listed under the
heading "Purchase and Servicing Agreements" in Exhibit E
hereto.
CHF : Chase Home Finance, LLC or its successor in
interest.
Civil Relief Act : The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
and any similar state laws.
Class : Collectively, Certificates bearing the same class
designation. In the case of Lower-Tier REMIC 1 or Middle-Tier
REMIC 1, the term "Class" refers to all Lower-Tier Interests having
the same alphanumeric designation.
Class A-R Certificate : The Class A-R Certificate
executed by the Securities Administrator on behalf of the Trustee,
and authenticated and delivered by the Authenticating Agent,
substantially in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit A, and
evidencing the ownership of the residual interest in Upper-Tier
REMIC 1 formed hereby.
Class A-2 Notional Amount : With respect to any
Distribution Date, the Class Principal Amount of the Class A-1
Certificates, prior to giving effect to distributions on such
date.
Class A-3 and Class A-4 Priority Amount : With respect to
the Class A-3 and Class A-4 Certificates and any Distribution Date,
the product of (i) the Class A-3 and Class A-4 Priority Percentage,
(ii) the Lockout Shift Percentage and (iii) the Senior Principal
Distribution Amount for Subgroup 2 for such Distribution Date
remaining pursuant to Section 5.02(a)(i)(3)(C)(ii)(I) hereof.
Class A-3 and Class A-4 Priority Percentage : With
respect to any Distribution Date, (a) the aggregate Class Principal
Amount of the Class A-3 and Class A-4 Certificates, prior to any
distributions on that Distribution Date, divided by (b) the sum of
the aggregate Class Principal Amount of the Class A-1, Class A-3,
Class A-4, Class A-5 and Class A-6 Certificates, prior to any
distributions on that Distribution Date, but in no event may the
Class A-3 and Class A-4 Priority Percentage exceed 100%.
Class A-5 Priority Amount : With respect to the Class A-5
Certificates and any Distribution Date, the lesser of (a) 99% of
the Senior Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 2 remaining
pursuant to Section 5.02(a)(i)(3)(C)(ii)(II) hereof and (b) the
product of (i) the Class A-5 Priority Percentage, (ii) the Lockout
Shift Percentage and (iii) the Senior Principal Distribution Amount
for Subgroup 2 remaining pursuant to Section
5.02(a)(i)(3)(C)(ii)(II) hereof for such Distribution Date.
Class A-5 Priority Percentage : With respect to any
Distribution Date, (a) the sum of (i) the Class Principal Amount of
the Class A-5 Certificates prior to any distributions on that
Distribution Date and (ii) $118,000,000, divided by (b) the sum of
the aggregate Class Principal Amount of the Class A-1, Class A-5
and Class A-6 Certificates prior to any distributions on that
Distribution Date.
Class A-9 Notional Amount : With respect to any
Distribution Date, the Class Principal Amount of the Class A-8
Certificates, prior to giving effect to distributions on such
date.
Class A-10 Prepayment Lockout Shift Percentage :
With respect to any Distribution Date, the percentage indicated
in the table below:
|
Distribution Date Occurring
In
|
Class A-10 Prepayment Lockout
Shift Percentage
|
|
January 2007 through December 2009
|
0%
|
|
January 2010 through December 2010
|
50%
|
|
January 2011 through December 2011
|
65%
|
|
January 2012 through December 2012
|
75%
|
|
January 2013 through December 2013
|
90%
|
|
January 2014 and thereafter
|
300%
|
Class A-10 Priority Amount : With respect to the Class
A-10 Certificates and any Distribution Date on and after the
Distribution Date in January 2010, the lesser of (a) 99% of the
Senior Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1 for that
Distribution Date and (b) the sum of (i) the product of (1) the
Class A-10 Priority Percentage and (2) the portion of the Senior
Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1 attributable to
clauses (a) and (c) of the definition of Senior Principal
Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1 for such Distribution Date and
(ii) the product of (1) the Class A-10 Priority Percentage, (2) the
Class A-10 Prepayment Lockout Shift Percentage and (3) the portion
of the Senior Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1
attributable to clauses (b) and (d) of the definition of Senior
Principal Distribution Amount for Subgroup 1 for such Distribution
Date.
Class A-10 Priority Percentage : With respect to any
Distribution Date, (a) the sum of (i) the Class Principal Amount of
the Class A-10 Certificates prior to any distributions on that
Distribution Date and (ii) $100,000, divided by (b) the sum of the
aggregate Class Principal Amount of the Class A-10, Class A-11 and
Class A-12 Certificates prior to any distributions on that
Distribution Date.
Class A-12 Accretion Termination Date : The earlier to
occur of (x) the Distribution Date on which the Class Principal
Amount of the Class A-11 Certificates has been reduced to zero; and
(y) the Distribution Date on which the aggregate Class Principal
Amount of the Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates have been
reduced to zero.
Class A-12 Accrual Amount : With respect to any
Distribution Date on or before the Class A-12 Accretion Termination
Date, an amount equal to accrued interest that would otherwise be
distributable in respect of interest on the Class A-12 Certificates
on that Distribution Date.
Class A Interest : Each regular interest in a Lower Tier
REMIC with the letter "A" in its class designation.
Class A-P Principal Distribution Amount : With respect to
each Distribution Date and Subgroup 1, the sum of the applicable
Class PO Fraction of the sum of (a) each Scheduled Payment of
principal collected or advanced on the related Class PO Mortgage
Components in the related Mortgage Group (before taking into
account any Deficient Valuations or Debt Service Reductions) and
due during the related Due Period, (b) that portion of the Purchase
Price representing principal of any Class PO Mortgage Components in
such Mortgage Group purchased in accordance with this Agreement or
a Purchase and Servicing Agreement hereof and received during the
related Prepayment Period, (c) the principal portion of any related
Substitution Amount received during the related Prepayment Period
on any Class PO Mortgage Components in such Mortgage Group, (d) the
principal portion of all Net Liquidation Proceeds including
Insurance Proceeds received during the related Prepayment Period
with respect to Class PO Mortgage Components in such Mortgage Group
that are not yet Liquidated Mortgage Loans, (e) the principal
portion of all Net Liquidation Proceeds, including Insurance
Proceeds, received during the related Prepayment Period with
respect to Liquidated Mortgage Loans that are Class PO Mortgage
Components in such Mortgage Group, (f) the principal portion of all
Principal Prepayments of Class PO Mortgage Components in such
Mortgage Group applied by the Servicers during the related
Prepayment Period, and (g) on the Distribution Date on which the
Trust Fund is to be terminated pursuant to Article VII hereof, that
portion of the Par Value in respect of principal on the Class PO
Mortgage Components for such Mortgage Group.
Class A-X Notional Amount : With respect to any
Distribution Date and the Class A-X Certificates, the product of:
(x) the aggregate Stated Principal Balance, as of the second
preceding Due Date after giving effect to Scheduled Payments for
that Due Date, whether or not received, or for the initial
Distribution Date, as of the Cut-off Date, of the Premium Rate
Mortgage Loans in Subgroup 3; and (y) a fraction, the
numerator of which is the weighted average of the related Stripped
Interest Rates for the Premium Rate Mortgage Loans in Subgroup 3
and the denominator of which is 6.00%.
Class B Interest : Each regular interest in a Lower Tier
REMIC with the letter "B" in its class designation.
Class C Interest : Each regular interest in a Lower Tier
REMIC with the letter "C" in its class designation.
Class Notional Amount : The Class A-X Notional Amount,
Class A-2 Notional Amount or the Class A-9 Notional Amount.
Class P Reserve Fund : The Eligible Account
established pursuant to Section 5.02(g).
Class PO Fraction : With respect to each Class PO
Mortgage Component in Subgroup 1, a fraction, the numerator of
which is the Required Coupon for the related Subgroup minus the Net
Mortgage Rate on that Class PO Mortgage Component and the
denominator of which is the Required Coupon for the related
Subgroup.
Class PO Mortgage Component : With respect to Subgroup 1,
the Mortgage Components in that Subgroup that have Net Mortgage
Rates less than the Required Coupon for that Subgroup.
Class PO Shortfall Amount : With respect to any
Distribution Date and Subgroup 1, the sum of (i) principal in an
amount equal to the applicable Class PO Fraction of any Realized
Loss on a Class PO Mortgage Component in the related Mortgage Group
incurred in the previous calendar month (other than an Excess Loss)
and (ii) the sum of the amounts, if any, by which the amount
described in subclause (i) on each prior Distribution Date exceeded
the amount actually distributed with respect to the related Class
PO Shortfall Amount on those prior Distribution Dates and not
subsequently distributed.
Class Principal Amount : With respect to each Class of
Certificates (other than an Interest-Only Certificate), the
aggregate of the Certificate Principal Amounts of all Certificates
of such Class at the date of determination. With respect to
any Lower-Tier Interest, the initial Class Principal Amount as
shown or described in the table set forth in the Preliminary
Statement for such REMIC, as reduced by principal distributed with
respect to such Lower-Tier Interest and Realized Losses allocated
to such Lower-Tier Interest at the date of determination.
Clearing Agency : An organization registered as a
"clearing agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. As of the Closing Date, the
Clearing Agency shall be The Depository Trust Company.
Clearing Agency Participant : A broker, dealer, bank,
other financial institution or other Person for whom from time to
time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of
securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.
Closing Date : December 22, 2006.
Code : The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and
as it may be further amended from time to time, any successor
statutes thereto, and applicable U.S. Department of Treasury
regulations issued pursuant thereto in temporary or final form.
Commission : The U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Compensating Interest Payment : As to any
Distribution Date, the lesser of (1) the aggregate Master
Servicing Fee for such date, and (2) any Prepayment Interest
Shortfall for such date, to the extent that Prepayment Interest
Shortfalls relating to such Distribution Date are required to be
paid by the Servicers pursuant to the Purchase and Servicing
Agreements or Servicing Agreements, as applicable, as amended by
the Acknowledgements, but not actually paid by the Servicers.
Consent : A document executed by the Cooperative
Corporation (i) consenting to the sale of the Cooperative Unit to
the Mortgagor and (ii) certifying that all maintenance charges
relating to the Cooperative Unit have been paid.
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.
Cooperative Loan : Any Mortgage Loan secured by
Cooperative Shares and a Proprietary Lease.
Cooperative Property : The real property and improvements
owned by the Cooperative Corporation, that includes the allocation
of individual dwelling units to the holders of the shares of the
Cooperative Corporation.
Cooperative Shares : Shares issued by a Cooperative
Corporation.
Cooperative Unit : With respect to any Cooperative
Mortgage Loan, a specific unit in a Cooperative Property.
Corporate Trust Office : With respect to the Trustee, the
corporate trust office of the Trustee located at 60 Livingston
Avenue, Mailcode: EP-MN-WS3D, St. Paul, Minnesota 55107-2232,
Attention: Structured Finance Trust Services, J.P. Morgan Mortgage
Trust 2006-S4, or at such other address as the Trustee may
designate from time to time by notice to the Certificateholders,
the Depositor, the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator
or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee.
With respect to the Certificate Registrar and presentment of
Certificates for registration of transfer, exchange or final
payment, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue,
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479, Attention: Corporate Trust, J.P.
Morgan Mortgage Trust 2006-S4.
Corresponding Certificates : With respect to each
Lower-Tier Interest, the Certificates so designated in the
Preliminary Statement.
Counterparty : JPMCB, or any successor in interest
thereto under the Yield Maintenance Agreement.
Countrywide : Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., or any
successor in interest.
Countrywide Servicing : Countrywide Home Loans
Servicing L.P. or any successor in interest.
Countrywide Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan
originated by Countrywide and listed on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule.
Countrywide Purchase and Servicing Agreement : Each
agreement between the Seller and Countrywide or Countrywide
Servicing listed under the heading "Purchase and Servicing
Agreements" in Exhibit E hereto, as modified by the related
Acknowledgement.
Credit Support Depletion Date : The date on which the
aggregate Class Principal Amount of the Mezzanine and Subordinate
Certificates has been reduced to zero.
Cross-Over Situation : For any Distribution Date and for
any Pool or Subgroup (after taking into account principal
distributions on such Distribution Date) a Cross-Over Situation
exists with respect to the Class A and Class B Interests of the
Pool or Subgroup if such Interests in the aggregate are less than
1% of the related SP, as defined in the Preliminary Statement.
CTX : CTX Mortgage Company, LLC, or any successor
in interest.
CTX Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan originated
by CTX and listed on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
CTX Purchase Agreement : Each agreement between the
Seller and CTX listed under the heading "Purchase Agreements" in
Exhibit E hereto.
Current Interest : With respect to each Class of
Certificates (other than the Principal-Only Certificates) and any
Distribution Date, the aggregate amount of interest accrued at the
applicable Certificate Interest Rate during the related Accrual
Period on the Class Principal Amount or Class Notional Amount of
such Class, as applicable, immediately prior to such Distribution
Date.
Custodial Accounts : Each custodial account (other than
an Escrow Account) established and maintained by a Servicer
pursuant to a Purchasing and Servicing Agreement or Servicing
Agreement, as applicable.
Custodial Agreements : The Custodial Agreements, listed
in Exhibit F hereof, as each such agreement may be amended or
supplemented from time to time as permitted hereunder.
Custodian : A Person who is at anytime appointed by the
Trustee and the Depositor as a custodian of the Mortgage Documents
and the Trustee Mortgage Files. The initial Custodians are
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and The Bank of New York Trust
Company, N.A. Any corporation or association into which a
Custodian may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any corporation or association resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Custodian shall
be a party, or any corporation or association to which all or
substantially all of the corporate trust business of such Custodian
may be sold or otherwise transferred, shall be the successor to
such Custodian hereunder without any further act.
Cut-off Date : December 1, 2006.
Cut-off Date Balance : With respect to the Mortgage Loans
in the Trust Fund on the Closing Date, the Aggregate Stated
Principal Balance as of 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 : The meaning specified in
Section 2.05.
Deficient Valuation : With respect to any Mortgage Loan,
a valuation of the related Mortgaged Property by a court of
competent jurisdiction 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.
Deficient Valuation Reduction : 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.
Definitive Certificate : A Certificate of any Class
issued in definitive, fully registered, certificated form.
Deleted Mortgage Loan : A Mortgage Loan which is
repurchased, or replaced or to be replaced with a Replacement
Mortgage Loan.
Delinquent : Any Mortgage Loan with respect to which the
Scheduled Payment due on a Due Date is not received.
Depositor : J.P. Morgan Acceptance Corporation I, a
Delaware corporation having its principal place of business in New
York, or its successors in interest.
Determination Date : With respect to each Distribution
Date and Servicer, the date specified as such in the related
Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as
applicable.
Disqualified Organization : A "disqualified organization"
as defined in Section 860E(e)(5) of the Code.
Distribution Account : The separate Eligible Account
created and maintained by the Securities Administrator, on behalf
of the Trustee, pursuant to Section 4.01. Funds in the
Distribution Account (exclusive of any earnings on investments made
with funds deposited in the Distribution Account) shall be held in
trust for the Trustee and the Certificateholders for the uses and
purposes set forth in this Agreement.
Distribution Account Deposit Date : The 18th day of
each calendar month after the initial issuance of the Certificates
or, if such 18th day is not a Business Day, the immediately
preceding Business Day, commencing in January 2007.
Distribution Date : The 25th day of each month or, if
such 25th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business
Day, commencing in January 2007.
Due Date : With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the date on
which a Scheduled Payment is due under the related Mortgage Note as
indicated in the applicable Purchase and Servicing Agreement.
Due Period : As to any Distribution Date, the period
beginning on the second day of the month preceding the month of
such Distribution Date, and ending on the first day of the month of
such Distribution Date.
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) 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 the trust department of a federal or state
chartered depository institution or trust company, acting in its
fiduciary capacity or (iv) any other account acceptable to each
Rating Agency, as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each
Rating Agency. Eligible Accounts may bear interest, and may
include, if otherwise qualified under this definition, accounts
maintained with the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Securities
Administrator or the Master Servicer.
ERISA : The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended.
ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting : A best efforts or firm
commitment underwriting or private placement that meets the
requirements of an Underwriter’s Exemption.
ERISA-Restricted Certificate : The Class B-4, Class B-5,
Class B-6, Class P and Class A-R Certificates and any Certificate
that does not satisfy the applicable rating requirement under the
Underwriter’s Exemption and the Uncertificated Interests.
Escrow Account : As defined in Article I of each Purchase
and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable.
Estoppel Letter : A document executed by the Cooperative
Corporation certifying, with respect to a Cooperative Unit, (i) the
appurtenant Proprietary Lease will be in full force and effect as
of the date of issuance thereof, (ii) the related stock certificate
was registered in the Mortgagor’s name and the Cooperative
Corporation has not been notified of any lien upon, pledge of, levy
of execution on or disposition of such stock certificate, and (iii)
the Mortgagor is not in default under the appurtenant Proprietary
Lease and all charges due the Cooperative Corporation have been
paid.
Event of Default : Any one of the conditions or
circumstances enumerated in Section 6.14.
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) Bankruptcy Loss realized after the Bankruptcy Coverage
Termination Date.
Exchange Act : The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
Exchange Trustee : U.S. Bank National Association,
solely in its capacity as exchange trustee under the Trust
Agreement.
Exchangeable Certificates : The Class A-13 Certificates
issued or issuable pursuant to the Trust Agreement in exchange for
and in accordance with the Trust Agreement for the applicable
Exchangeable REMIC Certificates.
Exchangeable REMIC Certificates : The Class A-10,
Class A-11 and Class A-12 Certificates.
Fair Market Value : An amount equal to the fair market
value of all of the property of an Aggregate Pool, as agreed upon
between the Master Servicer and a majority of the holders of the
related Uncertificated Interest; provided, however, that if the
Master Servicer and a majority of the holders of the related
Uncertificated Interest do not agree upon the fair market value of
all of such property, the Master Servicer, or an agent appointed by
the Master Servicer, shall solicit bids for all of such property,
until it has received three bids, and the Fair Market Value shall
be equal to the highest of such three bids.
Fannie Mae : The entity formerly known as 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.
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.
Fifth Third : Fifth Third Mortgage Company, or any
successor in interest.
Fifth Third Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan
originated by Fifth Third and listed on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule.
Fifth Third Purchase and Servicing Agreement : Each
agreement between the Seller and Fifth Third, listed under the
heading "Purchase and Servicing Agreements" in Exhibit E
hereto.
Fitch Ratings : Fitch, Inc., or any successor in
interest.
Flagstar : Flagstar Bank, FSB, or any successor in
interest.
Flagstar Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan
originated by Flagstar and listed on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule.
Flagstar Purchase Agreement : Each agreement between the
Seller and Flagstar listed under the heading "Purchase Agreements"
in Exhibit E hereto.
Form 8-K Disclosure Information : As defined in Section
11.03.
Fraud Loan : A Liquidated Mortgage Loan as to which a
Fraud Loss has occurred, as reported by the related Servicer or the
Master Servicer to the Securities Administrator.
Fraud Losses : Losses sustained on a Liquidated Mortgage
Loan (as reported by the applicable Servicer) by reason of a
default arising from fraud, dishonesty or misrepresentation.
Fraud Loss Coverage Amount : With respect to the
Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates, as of the Closing Date,
$23,345,766.55, as reduced on the fifth anniversary of the Cut-off
Date to zero and on the first anniversary of the Cut-off Date, to
an amount equal to the lesser of (x) 2.00% of the then current Pool
Balance of the Aggregate Pool, and (y) the excess of the related
Fraud Loss Coverage Amount as of the Cut-off Date, over the
cumulative amount of Fraud Losses allocated to the Mezzanine and
Subordinate Certificates since the Cut-off Date and reduced on the
second, third and fourth anniversaries of the Cut off Date, to an
amount equal to the lesser of (x) 1.00% of the then current Pool
Balance of the Aggregate Pool, and (y) the excess of the Fraud Loss
Coverage Amount as of the preceding anniversary of the Cut off
Date, over the cumulative amount of Fraud Losses allocated to the
Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates since the preceding
anniversary.
Fraud Loss Coverage Termination Date : The point in time
at which the Fraud Loss Coverage Amount is reduced to zero.
Global Securities : The global certificates representing
the Book-Entry Certificates.
Group : Either a Mortgage Group or a Certificate Group,
as the context requires.
Group A Certificates : 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-10, Class A-11, Class A-12, Class A-R, Class A-P and
Class A-X Certificates.
Holder or Certificateholder : The registered owner of any
Certificate or Uncertificated Interest as recorded on the books of
the Certificate Registrar except that, solely for the purposes of
taking any action or giving any consent pursuant to this Agreement,
any Certificate registered in the name of the Depositor, the
Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator and any
Servicer, or any Affiliate thereof shall be deemed not to be
outstanding in determining whether the requisite percentage
necessary to effect any such consent has been obtained, except
that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in
relying upon any such consent, only Certificates which a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be
disregarded. The Trustee may request and conclusively rely on
certifications by the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the
Securities Administrator or any Servicer in determining whether any
Certificates are registered to an Affiliate of the Depositor, the
Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or any Servicer.
HUD : The United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development, or any successor thereto.
Independent : When used with respect to any Accountant, a
Person who is "independent" within the meaning of Rule 2-01(B) of
the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation S-X.
Independent means, when used with respect to any other
Person, a Person who (A) is in fact independent of another
specified Person and any Affiliate of such other Person, (B) does
not have any material direct or indirect financial interest in such
other Person or any Affiliate of such other Person, (C) is not
connected with such other Person or any Affiliate of such other
Person as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee,
partner, director or Person performing similar functions and (D) is
not a member of the immediate family of a Person defined in clause
(B) or (C) above.
Indymac : IndyMac Bank, F.S.B.
Indymac Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan originated by
Indymac and listed on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Indymac Purchase and Servicing Agreement : Each agreement
between the Seller and Indymac listed under the heading "Purchase
and Servicing Agreements" in Exhibit E hereto, as modified by the
related Acknowledgement.
Initial Bankruptcy Coverage Amount : $226,977.90.
Initial Optional Purchase Date : The first
Distribution Date following the date on which the Aggregate Stated
Principal Balance of the Aggregate Pool is less than 5% of the
Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Aggregate Pool as of the
Cut-off Date.
Insurance Policy : With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any
insurance policy, including all names and endorsements thereto in
effect, including any replacement policy or policies for any
Insurance Policies.
Insurance Proceeds : Proceeds paid by any Insurance
Policy (excluding proceeds required to be applied to the
restoration and repair of the related Mortgaged Property or
released to the Mortgagor), in each case other than any amount
included in such Insurance Proceeds in respect of Insured Expenses
and the proceeds from any Limited Purpose Surety Bond.
Insured Expenses : Expenses covered by an Insurance
Policy or any other insurance policy with respect to the Mortgage
Loans.
Interest Distribution Amount : For each Class of
Certificates (other than the Principal-Only and Class P
Certificates) on any Distribution Date, the Current Interest for
such Class, as reduced by (i) such Class’s share of Net
Prepayment Interest Shortfalls; and (ii) the related Class’s
allocable share of (A) after the Special Hazard Coverage
Termination Date, with respect to each Mortgage Loan or Mortgage
Component, as applicable, in the related Mortgage Group that became
a Special Hazard Mortgage Loan during the calendar month preceding
the month of such Distribution Date, the excess of one
month’s interest at the related Net Mortgage Rate on the
Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan or Mortgage
Component, as applicable, as of the Due Date in such month over the
amount of Liquidation Proceeds applied as interest on such Mortgage
Loan or Mortgage Component, as applicable, with respect to such
month, (B) after the Bankruptcy Coverage Termination Date, with
respect to each Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Component, as applicable,
in the related Mortgage Group that became subject to a Bankruptcy
Loss during the calendar month preceding the month of such
Distribution Date, the interest portion of the related Debt Service
Reduction or Deficient Valuation, (C) each Relief Act Shortfall for
the Mortgage Loans or Mortgage Components, as applicable, in the
related Mortgage Group or the Aggregate Pool incurred during
the calendar month preceding the month of such Distribution Date
and (D) after the Fraud Loss Coverage Termination Date, with
respect to each Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Component, as applicable,
in the related Mortgage Group that became a Fraud Loan during the
calendar month preceding the month of such Distribution Date, the
excess of one month’s interest at the related Net Mortgage
Rate on the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan or
Mortgage Component, as applicable, as of the Due Date in such month
over the amount of Liquidation Proceeds applied as interest on such
Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Component, as applicable, with respect to
such month. Any such shortfalls and reductions on any
Distribution Date will be allocated among all classes of Senior
Certificates (other than the Class A-P Certificates) and the
Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates proportionately on the basis
of Current Interest otherwise distributable thereon on such
Distribution Date, in each case before taking into account any of
the foregoing reductions; provided, however, that for the purposes
of this definition, Current Interest for the Class A-1 Certificates
shall be calculated assuming a Certificate Interest Rate for such
Class equal to the lesser of (a) 6.000% per annum and (b) the
Certificate Interest Rate in effect for such Class and Distribution
Date.
Interest-Only Certificates : The Class A-X, Class A-2 and
Class A-9 Certificates.
Interest Shortfall : As to any Class of Certificates and
any Distribution Date, the amount by which the Interest
Distribution Amount for such Class and all prior Distribution Dates
exceeds amounts distributed in respect thereof to such Class on
prior Distribution Dates.
Interest Transfer Amount : With respect to any
Undercollateralized Group and any Distribution Date, one
month’s interest on the applicable Principal Transfer Amount
at 5.500%, 6.000% or 7.000% per annum with respect to Subgroup 1,
Subgroup 2 or Subgroup 3, respectively, plus any Interest Shortfall
of interest on the Senior Certificates of the applicable
Undercollateralized Group from prior Distribution Dates.
Intervening Assignments : The original intervening
assignments of the Mortgage, notices of transfer or equivalent
instrument.
Item 1123 Certification : The certification
required from each of the Master Servicer, the Securities
Administrator and each Additional Servicer pursuant to Section
11.05.
Johnson Bank : Johnson Bank, or any successor in
interest.
Johnson Bank Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan
originated by Johnson and listed on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Johnson Bank Sale and Servicing Agreement : Each
agreement between the Seller and Johnson Bank listed under the
heading "Purchase and Servicing Agreements" in Exhibit E hereto, as
modified by the related Acknowledgement.
JPMCB : JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, or its
successors in interest.
Latest Possible Maturity Date : The Distribution Date
occurring in the month three years after the latest scheduled
maturity date for any Mortgage Loan.
LIBOR : For any Distribution Date (and the related
Accrual Period), the London Interbank Offered Rate for one-month
United States dollar deposits quoted on Telerate Page 3750 as of
11:00 A.M., London time, on the related LIBOR Determination Date
relating. If such rate does not appear on such page (or such
other page as may replace that page on that service, or if such
service is no longer offered, such other service for displaying
LIBOR or comparable rates as may be reasonably selected by the
Securities Administrator), the rate will be the Reference Bank
Rate. If no such quotations can be obtained and no Reference
Bank Rate is available, LIBOR will be LIBOR applicable to the
preceding Distribution Date. On the LIBOR Determination Date
immediately preceding each Distribution Date, the Securities
Administrator shall determine LIBOR for the Accrual Period
commencing on such Distribution Date and inform the Trustee, the
Master Servicer and each Servicer of such rate.
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 : The Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-8
and Class A-9 Certificates.
LIBOR Determination Date : The second LIBOR Business Day
prior to the first day of the related Accrual Period.
Liquidated Mortgage Loan : With respect to any
Distribution Date, a defaulted Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Component,
as applicable (including any REO Property) which was liquidated in
the calendar month preceding the month of such Distribution Date
and as to which the related Servicer has certified (in accordance
with its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement,
as applicable) that it has received all amounts it expects to
receive in connection with the liquidation of such Mortgage Loan or
Mortgage Component, as applicable, including the final disposition
of an REO Property.
Liquidation Proceeds : Amounts, including Insurance
Proceeds, received in connection with the partial or complete
liquidation of defaulted Mortgage Loans or Mortgage Components, as
applicable, 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.
Loan-To-Value Ratio : With respect to any Mortgage Loan
and as to any date of determination, the fraction (expressed as a
percentage) the numerator of which is the principal balance of the
related Mortgage Loan at the date of determination and the
denominator of which is the Appraised Value of the related
Mortgaged Property.
Lockout Shift Percentage : With respect to any
Distribution Date, the percentage indicated below:
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DISTRIBUTION DATE OCCURRING
IN
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LOCKOUT SHIFT
PERCENTAGE
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January 2007 through December 2011
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0%
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January 2012 through December 2012
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30%
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January 2013 through December 2013
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40%
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January 2014 through December 2014
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60%
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January 2015 through December 2015
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80%
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January 2016 and thereafter
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100%
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Lower-Tier Interest : Any one of the interests in
Lower-Tier REMIC 1 or Middle-Tier REMIC 1 as described in the
Preliminary Statement.
Lower-Tier REMIC 1 : As described in the Preliminary
Statement.
Lower-Tier REMIC : Lower-Tier REMIC 1.
Master Servicer : Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. a national
banking association organized under the laws of the United States
and any Person succeeding as master servicer hereunder or any
successor in interest, or if any successor master servicer shall be
appointed as herein provided, then such successor master
servicer.
Master Servicing Fee : With respect to any
Distribution Date, an amount equal to a portion of the investment
earnings on amounts on deposit in the Distribution Account payable
under the terms hereof.
Master Servicer Investment Period : With respect to
any Servicer Remittance Date and the related amounts in the
Distribution Account, the period commencing on the fifth day
preceding such Distribution Date and ending on the Distribution
Date.
MERS : Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, or any successor to Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc.
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.
Mezzanine Certificates : The Class M Certificates.
Middle-Tier REMIC 1 : As described in the Preliminary
Statement.
MIN : The mortgage identification number for any MERS
Mortgage Loan.
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.
Moody’s : Moody’s Investors Service,
Inc., or any successor in interest.
Mortgage : A mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument
encumbering a fee simple interest in real property securing a
Mortgage Note, together with improvements thereto.
Mortgage Component : The portions of the Mortgage Loans
that relate to a Subgroup.
Mortgage Documents : With respect to each Mortgage Loan,
the mortgage documents required to be delivered to the Custodian
pursuant to each Custodial Agreement.
Mortgage Group : The Mortgage Components in Subgroup 1,
Subgroup 2 or Subgroup 3, as the context requires.
Mortgage Loan : A Mortgage and the related Mortgage Note
conveyed, transferred, sold, assigned to or deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 2.01 (including any Replacement Loan
and REO Property), including without limitation, each Mortgage Loan
listed on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, as amended from time to
time.
Mortgage Loan Schedule : The schedule attached hereto as
Schedule A, which shall identify each Mortgage Loan, as such
schedule may be amended by the Depositor or a Servicer from time to
time (with copies of such amended schedule to be delivered promptly
by the Depositor or such Servicer to the Securities Administrator,
the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Custodians) to reflect the
addition of Replacement Mortgage Loans to, or the deletion of
Deleted Mortgage Loans from, the Trust Fund. Such schedule
shall, among other things (i) designate the Servicer servicing
such Mortgage Loan and the applicable Servicing Fee Rate; and
(ii) identify the designated Mortgage Group or Pool in which
such Mortgage Loan is included.
Mortgage Note : The original executed note or other
evidence of the indebtedness of a Mortgagor secured by a Mortgage
under a Mortgage Loan.
Mortgaged Property : The underlying property securing a
Mortgage Loan which, with respect to a Cooperative Loan, is the
related Cooperative Shares and Proprietary Lease.
Mortgage Rate : As to any Mortgage Loan, the annual rate
of interest borne by the related Mortgage Note. Any Mortgage
Component related to a Mortgage Loan will have the same Mortgage
Rate as that Mortgage Loan.
Mortgagor : The obligor on a Mortgage Note.
National City : National City Mortgage Co., or any
successor in interest.
National City Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan
originated by National City and listed on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule.
National City Purchase and Servicing Agreement :
Each agreement between the Seller and National City listed
under the heading "Purchase and Servicing Agreements" in Exhibit E
hereto, as modified by the related Acknowledgement.
Net Liquidation Proceeds : With respect to any Liquidated
Mortgage Loan or any other disposition of related Mortgaged
Property, the related Liquidation Proceeds net of Advances,
Servicer Advances, Servicing Fees and any other accrued and unpaid
servicing fees received and retained in connection with the
liquidation of such Mortgage Loan or Mortgaged Property.
Net Mortgage Rate : With respect to any Mortgage Loan and
any Distribution Date, the related Mortgage Rate reduced by the
Aggregate Expense Rate for such Mortgage Loan. Any Mortgage
Component related to a Mortgage Loan will have the same Net
Mortgage Rate as that Mortgage Loan.
Net Prepayment Interest Shortfall : With respect to any
Distribution Date, the amount by which any Prepayment Interest
Shortfall for such date exceeds the amount payable by the related
Servicer, or the Master Servicer (if the related Servicer fails to
pay such amount) and/or in respect of such shortfall.
Net WAC : As to any Distribution Date, the weighted
average of the Net Mortgage Rates of the Mortgage Loans (or any
Mortgage Group or the Aggregate Pool) as of the first day of the
calendar month preceding the month of such Distribution Date,
weighted on the basis of their outstanding Stated Principal
Balances (after giving effect to the Scheduled Payments due on or
before such date and Principal Prepayments received prior to such
date) at such time.
NetBank : NetBank, or any successor in
interest.
NetBank Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan
originated by NetBank and listed on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
NetBank Purchase Agreement : Each agreement between
the Seller and NetBank listed under the heading "Purchase
Agreements" in Exhibit E hereto.
Non-Book-Entry Certificate : Any Certificate other than a
Book-Entry Certificate.
Non-permitted Foreign Holder : As defined in Section
3.03(f).
Non-U.S. Person : Any person other than a "United States
person" within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
Nonrecoverable Advance : Any portion of an Advance or
Servicer Advance previously made or proposed to be made by the
related Servicer, or the Master Servicer (if the related Servicer
fails to pay such amount) (as certified in an Officer’s
Certificate of such Servicer or the Master Servicer), which in the
good faith judgment of such party, shall not be ultimately
recoverable by such party from the related Mortgagor, related
Liquidation Proceeds or otherwise.
Notional Amount : With respect to any Interest-Only
Certificate and any Distribution Date, such Certificate’s
Percentage Interest of the Class Notional Amount of such Class of
Certificates for such Distribution Date.
Offering Document : With respect to the Offered
Certificates, the Prospectus. With respect to the Class B-4,
Class B-5, Class B-6 and Class P Certificates, the Private
Placement Memorandum dated December 22, 2006.
Offered Certificates : The Certificates other than the
Class P, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates.
Officer’s Certificate : A certificate signed by two
Authorized Officers of the Depositor or the Chairman of the Board,
any Vice Chairman, the President, any Vice President or any
Assistant Vice President or Trust Officer of the Master Servicer or
the Securities Administrator, and in each case delivered to the
Trustee.
Officer’s Certificate of a Servicer : 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 a Servicer, or (ii) if provided for herein, signed
by a Servicing Officer, as the case may be, and delivered to the
Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as required hereby.
Opinion of Counsel : A written opinion of counsel,
reasonably acceptable in form and substance to the Trustee, the
Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer, as required
hereby, and who may be in-house or outside counsel to the
Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or the
Trustee but which must be Independent outside counsel with respect
to any such opinion of counsel concerning the transfer of any
Residual Certificate or concerning certain matters with respect to
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
("ERISA"), or the taxation, or the federal income tax status, of
each REMIC created hereby.
Original Applicable Credit Support Percentage : With
respect to each Class of Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates,
the corresponding percentage set forth opposite its Class
designation:
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Class M
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4.40%
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Class B-1
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2.80%
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Class B-2
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2.20%
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Class B-3
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1.45%
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Class B-4
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0.90%
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Class B-5
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0.55%
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Class B-6
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0.25%
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Originator : Each of the Chase Originators, American
Home, CTX, Flagstar, Chevy Chase, Fifth Third, IndyMac, Johnson
Bank, U.S. Central, Countrywide, National City, NetBank, WMMSC and
Weichert, as applicable.
Overcollateralized Group : On any Distribution Date, any
Certificate Group in the Aggregate Pool which is not an
Undercollateralized Group.
Par Value : An amount equal to the sum of (i) 100%
of the Stated Principal Balance of each related Mortgage Loan
(other than in respect of REO Property) plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon from the date to which such interest was paid or
advanced at the sum of the applicable Mortgage Rate, to but not
including the Due Date in the month of the final Distribution Date
and (ii) with respect to any related REO Property, the appraised
value of any REO Property as determined by the higher of two
appraisals completed by two independent appraisers selected by the
Depositor at the expense of the Depositor and (iii) any related
remaining unreimbursed Advances and Servicing Advances and unpaid
Servicing Fees, and any other amounts payable to the Servicers,
Master Servicer, Trustee and Securities Administrator, in each case
relating to the related Mortgage Loans.
Paying Agent : Any paying agent appointed pursuant to
Section 3.08. The Paying Agent shall be Wells Fargo Bank,
N.A., for so long as it is acting as Securities Administrator under
this Agreement.
PCAOB : The Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board.
Percentage Interest : With respect to any Certificate,
its percentage interest in the undivided beneficial ownership
interest in the Trust Fund evidenced by all Certificates of the
same Class as such Certificate. With respect to any
Certificate other than a Interest-Only Certificate or the Class A-R
or Class P Certificate, the Percentage Interest evidenced thereby
shall equal the initial Certificate Principal Amount thereof
divided by the initial Class Principal Amount of all Certificates
of the same Class. With respect to each of the Class A-R or
Class P Certificate, the Percentage Interest evidenced thereby
shall be as specified on the face thereof, or otherwise, be equal
to 100%. With respect to any Interest-Only Certificates, the
Percentage Interest evidenced thereby shall equal its initial
Notional Amount as set forth on the face thereof divided by the
initial Class Notional Amount of such Class.
Permitted Investments : At any time, any one or more of
the following obligations and securities:
(i)
obligations of the United States or any agency thereof, provided
that such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of
the United States;
(ii)
general obligations of or obligations guaranteed by any state of
the United States or the District of Columbia receiving the highest
long-term debt rating of each Rating Agency, or such lower rating
as shall not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings
then assigned to the Certificates by the Rating Agencies, as
evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
(iii)
commercial or finance company paper which is then receiving the
highest commercial or finance company paper rating of each Rating
Agency rating such paper, or such lower rating as shall not result
in the downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to
the Certificates by the Rating Agencies, as evidenced by a signed
writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
(iv)
certificates of deposit, demand or time deposits, or
bankers’ acceptances issued by any depository institution or
trust company incorporated under the laws of the United States or
of any state thereof and subject to supervision and examination by
federal and/or state banking authorities, provided that the
commercial paper and/or long-term unsecured debt obligations of
such depository institution or trust company (or in the case of the
principal depository institution in a holding company system, the
commercial paper or long-term unsecured debt obligations of such
holding company, but only if Moody’s is not the applicable
Rating Agency) are then rated one of the two highest long-term and
the highest short-term ratings of each Rating Agency for such
securities, or such lower ratings as shall not result in the
downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the
Certificates by the Rating Agencies, as evidenced by a signed
writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
(v)
demand or time deposits or certificates of deposit issued by any
bank or trust company or savings institution to the extent that
such deposits are fully insured by the FDIC;
(vi)
guaranteed reinvestment agreements issued by any bank, insurance
company or other corporation acceptable to the Rating Agencies at
the time of the issuance of such agreements, as evidenced by a
signed writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
(vii)
repurchase obligations with respect to any security described in
clauses (i) and (ii) above, in either case entered into with a
depository institution or trust company (acting as principal)
described in clause (iv) above;
(viii)
securities (other than stripped bonds, stripped coupons or
instruments sold at a purchase price in excess of 115% of the face
amount thereof) bearing interest or sold at a discount issued by
any corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States or
any state thereof which, at the time of such investment, have one
of the two highest ratings of each Rating Agency (except if the
Rating Agency is Moody’s, such rating shall be the highest
commercial paper rating of Moody’s for any such series), or
such lower rating as shall not result in the downgrading or
withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the Certificates by the
Rating Agencies, as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each
Rating Agency;
(ix)
interests in any money market fund which at the date of
acquisition of the interests in such fund and throughout the time
such interests are held in such fund has the highest applicable
rating by each Rating Agency rating such fund or such lower rating
as shall not result in a change in the rating then assigned to the
Certificates by each Rating Agency, as evidenced by a signed
writing delivered by each Rating Agency, including funds for which
the Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or
any of its Affiliates is investment manager or adviser;
(x)
short-term investment funds sponsored by any trust company or
national banking association incorporated under the laws of the
United States or any state thereof which on the date of acquisition
has been rated by each applicable Rating Agency in their respective
highest applicable rating category or such lower rating as shall
not result in a change in the rating then specified stated maturity
and bearing interest or sold at a discount acceptable to each
Rating Agency as shall not result in the downgrading or withdrawal
of the ratings then assigned to the Certificates by the Rating
Agencies, as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating
Agency; and
(xi)
such other investments having a specified stated maturity and
bearing interest or sold at a discount acceptable to the Rating
Agencies as shall not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of
the ratings then assigned to the Certificates by the Rating
Agencies, as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating
Agency;
provided, that no such instrument shall be a Permitted
Investment if (i) such instrument evidences the right to receive
interest only payments with respect to the obligations underlying
such instrument or (ii) such instrument would require the Depositor
to register as an investment company under the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended.
Person : Any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, limited liability
company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof.
Pool Balance : As to any Distribution Date, the aggregate
of the Stated Principal Balances of all the Mortgage Loans
outstanding on the Due Date of the month preceding the month of
that Distribution Date.
Premium Rate Mortgage Loan : A Subgroup 3 Mortgage
Component having a Net Mortgage Rate in excess of the Required
Coupon for such Mortgage Group.
Prepayment Interest Shortfall : With respect to any full
or partial Principal Prepayment of a Mortgage Loan, the excess, if
any, of (i) one full month’s interest at the applicable Net
Mortgage Rate on the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan
immediately prior to such Principal Prepayment over (ii) the amount
of interest actually received with respect to such Mortgage Loan in
connection with such Principal Prepayment.
Prepayment Period : With respect to each Distribution
Date, the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which
the Distribution Date occurs.
Prepayment Premium : With respect to each Mortgage Loan,
the prepayment charge or penalty interest required to be paid by
the Mortgagor in connection with a prepayment of the related
Mortgage Loan, as provided in the related Mortgage Note or
Mortgage.
Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy : Each policy of
primary mortgage guaranty insurance or any replacement policy
therefor with respect to any Mortgage Loan.
Principal-Only Certificates : The Class A-P
Certificates.
Principal Prepayment : Any Mortgagor payment of principal
or other recovery of principal on a Mortgage Loan or Mortgage
Component, as applicable, that is recognized as having been
received or recovered in advance of its scheduled Due Date and
applied to reduce the principal balance of the Mortgage Loan or
Mortgage Component, as applicable, in accordance with the terms of
the Mortgage Note or the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement
or Servicing Agreement, as applicable.
Principal Prepayment In Full : Any Principal Prepayment
of the entire principal balance of the Mortgage Loans or Mortgage
Components, as applicable.
Principal Relocation Payment : A payment from any Pool or
Subgroup to Lower-Tier Interests other than those of their
Corresponding Pool or Subgroup as provided in the Preliminary
Statement. Principal Relocation Payments shall be made of
principal allocations comprising the distributions of principal
from a Pool or Subgroup.
Principal Transfer Amount : For any Distribution Date and
for any Undercollateralized Group, the excess, if any, of the
aggregate Class Principal Amount of the Senior Certificates (other
than the Class A-P Certificates) of such Undercollateralized Group
immediately prior to such Distribution Date, over the Aggregate
Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans or Mortgage
Components, as applicable, in that Mortgage Group immediately prior
to such Distribution Date (less the applicable Class PO Fraction of
each Class PO Mortgage Component, as applicable, in that Mortgage
Group).
Proprietary Lease : With respect to any Cooperative
Property, a lease or occupancy agreement between a Cooperative
Corporation and a holder of related Cooperative Shares.
Prospectus : The prospectus supplement dated December 21,
2006, together with the accompanying prospectus dated September 21,
2006, relating to the Certificates.
Purchase Agreement : The agreements listed under the
heading "Purchase Agreements" in Exhibit E hereto, as each
such agreement may be amended or supplemented from time to time as
permitted hereunder.
Purchase and Servicing Agreement : The agreements
listed under the heading "Purchase and Servicing Agreements" in
Exhibit E hereto, as each such agreement may be amended or
supplemented from time to time as permitted hereunder.
Purchase Price : With respect to any Mortgage Loan
required or permitted to be purchased by the Seller or the
Depositor pursuant to this Agreement, or by the related Originator
or Servicer pursuant to the related Purchase and Servicing
Agreement or Purchase Agreement, as applicable, an amount equal to
the sum of (i) 100% of the unpaid principal balance of the
Mortgage Loan on the date of such purchase and (ii) accrued
interest thereon at the applicable Net Mortgage Rate 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, or such other amount as may be specified in
the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Purchase Agreement,
as applicable.
Rapid Prepayment Conditions : With respect to any
Distribution Date and the Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates,
the situation that exists when (1) the Subordinate Percentage for
the Aggregate Pool on such date is less than 200% of such
Subordinate Percentage on the Closing Date; or (2) the outstanding
Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Components in any Subgroup
Delinquent 60 days or more (including Mortgage Components in REO
and foreclosure) (averaged over the preceding six-month period), as
a percentage of the related Subgroup Subordinate Amount, is greater
than or equal to 50%.
Rating Agency : Each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch
Ratings.
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 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) the Liquidation Proceeds, if any, received during
the month in which such liquidation occurred, to the extent applied
as recoveries of interest at the Mortgage Rate and to principal of
the Liquidated Mortgage Loan. With respect to each 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 Deficient Valuation Reduction. With respect to
each Mortgage Loan which has become the subject of a Debt-Service
Reduction, the present value of all monthly Debt Service Reductions
on the Mortgage Loan, assuming that the mortgagor pays each
Scheduled Payment on the applicable Due Date and that no Principal
Prepayments are received on the Mortgage Loan, discounted at the
applicable Mortgage Rate.
Recognition Agreement : An agreement among a Cooperative
Corporation, a lender and a Mortgagor with respect to a Cooperative
Mortgage Loan whereby such parties (i) acknowledge that such lender
may make, or intends to make, such Cooperative Loan, and (ii) make
certain agreements with respect to such Cooperative Mortgage
Loan.
Record Date : As to any Distribution Date and for any
Class of Certificates, other than the LIBOR Certificates, the last
Business Day of the month preceding the month of a Distribution
Date. As to any Distribution Date and the LIBOR Certificates,
the Business Day immediately preceding such Distribution Date.
Redemption Date : As defined in Section 7.01(c)
Redemption Price : With respect to a Redemption Date, an
amount equal to the greater of (1) the Par Value and (2) the Fair
Market Value of all of the property of the Trust Fund.
Refinancing Mortgage Loan : Any Mortgage Loan originated
in connection with the refinancing of an existing mortgage
loan.
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
Commission 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 Commission, or as may be provided
by the Commission or its staff from time to time.
Relevant Servicing Criteria : The Servicing Criteria
applicable to the various parties, as set forth on Exhibit M
attached hereto. For clarification purposes, multiple parties
can have responsibility for the same Relevant Servicing Criteria.
With respect to a Servicing Function Participant engaged by
the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee,
each Servicer or a Custodian, the term "Relevant Servicing
Criteria" may refer to a portion of the Relevant Servicing Criteria
applicable to such parties.
Relief Act Shortfalls : 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 Civil
Relief Act, the amount, if any, by which (i) interest collectible
on such Mortgage Loan for the most recently ended calendar month is
less than (ii) interest accrued thereon for such month pursuant to
the Mortgage Note.
REMIC : Each pool of assets in the Trust Fund designated
as a REMIC as described in the Preliminary Statement.
REMIC Provisions : The provisions of the federal income
tax law relating to real estate mortgage investment conduits, which
appear at sections 860A through 860G of the Code, and related
provisions, and regulations, including proposed regulations and
rulings, and administrative pronouncements promulgated thereunder,
as the foregoing may be in effect from time to time.
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 or otherwise treated as
having been acquired pursuant to the REMIC Provisions.
Reference Bank Rate : As to any Accrual Period
relating to the LIBOR Certificates as follows: the arithmetic mean
(rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest one sixteenth of a
percent) of the offered rates for United States dollar deposits for
one month which are offered by the Reference Banks as of 11:00
A.M., London time, on the LIBOR Determination Date prior to the
first day of such Accrual Period to prime banks in the London
interbank market for a period of one month in amounts approximately
equal to the aggregate Class Principal Amount or Class Notional
Amount, as applicable, of the LIBOR Certificates; provided that at
least two such Reference Banks provide such rate. If fewer
than two offered rates appear, the Reference Bank Rate will be the
arithmetic mean of the rates quoted by one or more major banks in
New York City, selected by the Securities Administrator, as of
11:00 A.M., New York City time, on such date for loans in U.S.
Dollars to leading European banks for a period of one month in
amounts approximately equal to the aggregate Class Principal Amount
or Class Notional Amount, as applicable, of the LIBOR Certificates.
If no such quotations can be obtained, the Reference Bank
Rate shall be the Reference Bank Rate applicable to the preceding
Accrual Period.
Reference Banks : Three major banks that are
engaged in the London interbank market, selected by the Securities
Administrator.
Replacement Mortgage Loan : A mortgage loan substituted
by an Originator or 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 attached to the related
Custodial Agreement, (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 a Mortgage Rate not less than and not more than one
percentage point greater than the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (iii) have
a Loan-to-Value Ratio no higher than that of the Deleted Mortgage
Loan; (iv) have a remaining term to maturity no greater than (and
not more than one year less than that of) the Deleted Mortgage
Loan; (v) comply with each representation and warranty set forth in
the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Purchase Agreement,
as applicable; and (xii) shall be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel that such Replacement Mortgage Loan would not adversely
affect the REMIC status of any REMIC created hereunder or would not
otherwise be prohibited by this Pooling and Servicing
Agreement.
Reportable Event : Has the meaning set forth in Section
11.03.
Required Coupon : With respect to Subgroup 1 and Subgroup
3, 5.500% and 7.000%, respectively.
Residual Certificate : The Class A-R Certificates and
each Uncertificated Interest.
Responsible Officer : With respect to the Trustee, any
officer in the corporate trust department or similar group of the
Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of this
Agreement and also, with respect to a particular corporate trust
matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because
of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject.
Restricted Certificate : The A-R, Class B-4, Class B-5,
Class B-6 and Class P Certificates and any Uncertificated
Interest.
S&P : Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a
division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
SAIF : The Saving’s Association Insurance Fund, or
any successor thereto.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act : The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and
the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder
(including any interpretations thereof by the Commission’s
staff).
Sarbanes-Oxley Certification : The certification
delivered by each Servicing Function Participant pursuant to
Section 11.08.
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 in the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, Purchase
Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, shall give effect
to any related Debt Service Reduction and any Deficient Valuation
that affects the amount of the monthly payment due on such Mortgage
Loan.
Securities Act : The Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and the rules and regulations thereunder.
Securities Administrator : Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., not in
its individual capacity but solely as Securities Administrator, or
any successor in interest, or if any successor securities
administrator shall be appointed as herein provided, then such
successor securities administrator.
Seller : J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., a
Delaware corporation.
Senior Certificates : Collectively, the Group A
Certificates.
Senior Percentage : With respect to each Distribution
Date and each Mortgage Group, the percentage equivalent of a
fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate Class Principal
Amount of the Class or Classes of related Senior Certificates of
the related Certificate Group immediately prior to such
Distribution Date (other than the Class A-P Certificates), and the
denominator of which is the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of
the related Mortgage Group for such Distribution Date (less, with
respect to Subgroup 1, the applicable Class PO Fraction of each
Class PO Mortgage Component in that Mortgage Pool).
Senior Prepayment Percentage : With respect to any
Distribution Date and any Mortgage Group, during the period
beginning on the first Distribution Date and ending on the
Distribution Date in December 2011, 100%. Except as provided
herein, the Senior Prepayment Percentage for each Mortgage Group
and any Distribution Date occurring on or after January 2012 shall
be as follows: (i) from January 2012 through December 2012,
the related Senior Percentage plus 70% of the related Subordinate
Percentage for that Distribution Date; (ii) from January 2013
through December 2013, the related Senior Percentage plus 60% of
the related Subordinate Percentage for that Distribution Date;
(iii) from January 2014 through December 2014, the related Senior
Percentage plus 40% of the related Subordinate Percentage for that
Distribution Date; (iv) from January 2015 through December 2015,
the related Senior Percentage plus 20% of the related Subordinate
Percentage for that Distribution Date; and (v) from and after
January 2016, the related Senior Percentage for that Distribution
Date; provided, however , that (a) there shall be no
reduction in the Senior Prepayment Percentage for a Mortgage Group
unless the Step-Down Test is satisfied with respect such Mortgage
Group and if the Senior Prepayment Percentage for any Mortgage
Group is not permitted to decrease because the Step-Down Test is
not satisfied for such Mortgage Group, then the Senior Prepayment
Percentages for such other Mortgage Groups will not decrease on
that date, (b) if, on any Distribution Date the Senior Percentage
for any Mortgage Group exceeds the related Senior Percentage on the
Closing Date, the Senior Prepayment Percentage for each Mortgage
Group for that Distribution Date will equal 100% and (c) if on any
Distribution Date the allocation to the Senior Certificates related
to a Mortgage Group then entitled to distributions of principal of
related full and partial principal prepayments and other amounts in
the percentage required above would reduce the sum of the
Class Principal Amounts of those Certificates below zero, the
distribution to the related class or classes of Certificates
of the related Senior Prepayment Percentage of those amounts for
such Distribution Date will be limited to the percentage necessary
to reduce the related Class Principal Amounts to zero.
Senior Principal Distribution Amount : With respect to a
Certificate Group and any Distribution Date is equal to the sum of
the following amounts (exclusive of the portion attributable to the
applicable Class A-P Principal Distribution Amount, if any):
(a)
the product of (i) the related Senior Percentage and (ii) the
principal portion of each Scheduled Payment on each Mortgage Loan
or Mortgage Component, as applicable, in the related Mortgage Group
due during the related Due Period;
(b)
the product of (i) the related Senior Prepayment Percentage and
(ii) each of the following amounts: (A) the principal portion of
each Principal Prepayment and Principal Prepayment In Full in the
related Mortgage Group during the related Prepayment Period; (B)
each other unscheduled collection (other than as set forth in (c)
and (d) below), including Insurance Proceeds and Net Liquidation
Proceeds (other than with respect to any Mortgage Loan or Mortgage
Component, as applicable, in the related Mortgage Group that was
finally liquidated during the related Prepayment Period)
representing or allocable to recoveries of principal of the related
Mortgage Loans or a Mortgage Component, as applicable, received
during the related Prepayment Period, including any Subsequent
Recoveries on the related Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Component, as
applicable; (C) the principal portion of any Purchase Price or of
the Substitution Amount received with respect to the related
Prepayment Period and (D) the portion of the Redemption Price up to
the Par Value.
(c)
with respect to Net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal
with respect to any Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Component, as
applicable, in the related Mortgage Group that became a Liquidated
Mortgage Loan during the related Prepayment Period, the lesser of
(1) the related Senior Prepayment Percentage of the Net Liquidation
Proceeds allocable to principal and (2) the product of (A) the
related Senior Percentage for that date and (B) the related
remaining Stated Principal Balance of the related Mortgage Loan or
Mortgage Component, as applicable, at the time of liquidation;
and
(d)
any amounts described in clauses (a) through (c) above that
remain unpaid with respect to such Certificate Group from prior
Distribution Dates.
Servicer : Each of JPMCB, Countrywide Servicing, Chevy
Chase, Fifth Third, IndyMac, Johnson Bank, U.S. Central, National
City and WAMU, as applicable.
Servicer Advance : A "Servicing Advance" as defined in
the applicable Purchase and Servicing Agreement.
Service(s)(ing) : In accordance with Regulation AB, the
act of servicing and administering the Mortgage Loans or any other
assets of the Trust by an entity that meets the definition of
"servicer’ set forth in Item 1101 of Regulation AB and is
subject to the disclosure requirements set forth in Item 1108 of
Regulation AB. For clarification purposes, any uncapitalized
occurrence of this term shall have the meaning commonly understood
by participants in the residential mortgage-backed securitization
market.
Servicing Agreement : The agreements listed under
the heading "Servicing Agreements" in Exhibit E hereto, as
each such agreement may be amended or supplemented from time to
time as permitted hereunder.
Servicing Criteria : The criteria set forth in
paragraph (d) of Item 1122 of Regulation AB, as such may be amended
from time to time.
Servicing Fee : As to any Distribution Date and each
Mortgage Loan, an amount equal to the product of (a) one-twelfth of
the Servicing Fee Rate and (b) the Stated Principal Balance of such
Mortgage Loan as of the first day of the related Due Period.
Servicing Fee Rate : With respect to each Mortgage
Loan and any Distribution Date, the rate specified in the related
Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as
applicable.
Servicing Function Participant : Any Sub-Servicer,
Subcontractor or any other Person, other than each Servicer, the
Master Servicer, the Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each
Custodian, that is performing material activities addressed by the
Servicing Criteria.
Servicing Officer : Any officer of the related
Servicer involved in, or responsible for, the administration and
servicing of the related Mortgage Loans whose name and facsimile
signature appear on a list of servicing officers furnished to the
Master Servicer by the related Servicer on the Closing Date
pursuant to the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or
Servicing Agreement, as applicable, as such list may from time to
time be amended.
Significance Percentage : With respect to any
Distribution Date, and in accordance with Item 1115 of Regulation
AB, shall be a percentage to (a) an amount determined based on the
reasonable good faith estimate by the Depositor of the aggregate
maximum probable exposure of the outstanding Certificates to the
Yield Maintenance Agreement, divided by (b) the aggregate
outstanding Class Principal Amount of the Certificates, prior to
the distribution of the Principal Remittance Amount on such
Distribution Date.
Special Hazard Coverage Termination Date : With respect
to the Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates, the point in time at
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, as reported
by a Servicer to the Master Servicer, 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 to the extent of the amount of such loss covered
thereby, or (ii) any loss caused by or resulting from:
(a)
normal wear and tear;
(b)
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);
(c)
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;
(d)
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;"
(e)
hostile or warlike action in time of peace and war, including
action in hindering, combating or defending against an actual,
impending or expected attack:
1.
by any government or sovereign power, de jure or de facto, or by
any authority maintaining or using military, naval or air forces;
or
2.
by military, naval or air forces; or
3.
by an agent of any such government, power, authority or
forces;
(f)
any weapon of war employing nuclear fission, fusion or other
radioactive force, whether in time of peace or war; or
(g)
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 : With respect to the
first Distribution Date, $7,781,922.18. With respect to any
subsequent Distribution Date, the lesser of (a) the greatest of (i)
1% of the aggregate of the principal balances of the Mortgage
Loans, (ii) twice the principal balance of the largest Mortgage
Loan, and (iii) the aggregate of the principal balances of all
Mortgage Loans secured by Mortgaged Properties located in the
single California postal zip code area having the highest aggregate
principal balance of any such zip code area and (b) the Special
Hazard Loss Coverage Amount as of the Closing Date less the amount,
if any, of Special Hazard Losses incurred since the Closing Date.
All principal balances for the purpose of this definition
will be calculated as of the first day of the calendar month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date after giving effect
to Scheduled Payments on the Mortgage Loans then due, whether or
not paid.
Special Hazard Mortgage Loan : A Liquidated Mortgage Loan
as to which a Special Hazard Loss has occurred.
Startup Day : The day designated as such pursuant to
Section 10.01(b) hereof.
Stated Principal Balance : As to any (a) 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 and (b) Mortgage
Component and Due Date, is the portion of the Stated Principal
Balance of the related Mortgage Loan allocable to that Mortgage
Component for that Due Date. Principal payments and Realized
Losses on Mortgage Loans divided in Mortgage Components will be
allocated among the Mortgage Components, pro rata based on Stated
Principal Balance.
Step-Down Test : As to any Distribution Date, the
Step-Down Test will be satisfied if both of the following
conditions are met: (i) the outstanding Stated Principal Balance of
all Mortgage Components in a Mortgage Group 60 days or more
Delinquent (including Mortgage Components in REO and foreclosure)
(averaged over the preceding six month period), as a percentage of
the related Subgroup Subordinate Amount on such Distribution Date
does not equal or exceed 50% and (ii) cumulative Realized Losses
with respect to the Mortgage Components in each Mortgage Group do
not exceed (a) with respect to each Distribution Date from January
2012 through December 2012, 30% of the original related Subgroup
Subordinate Amount, (b) with respect to each Distribution Date from
January 2013 through December 2013, 35% of the original related
Subgroup Subordinate Amount, (c) with respect to each Distribution
Date from January 2014 through December 2014, 40% of the original
related Subgroup Subordinate Amount, (d) with respect to each
Distribution Date from January 2015 through December 2015, 45% of
the original related Subgroup Subordinate Amount, and (e) with
respect to each Distribution Date from and after January 2016, 50%
of the original related Subgroup Subordinate Amount.
Stripped Interest Rate : With respect to any Premium Rate
Mortgage Loan, is the excess of the Net Mortgage Rate for that
Mortgage Loan over the applicable Required Coupon.
Sub-Servicer : Any Person that (i) is a Servicing
Function Participant, (ii) services Mortgage Loans on behalf of any
Servicer, and (iii) is responsible for the performance (whether
directly or through sub-servicers or Subcontractors) of Servicing
functions required to be performed under this Agreement, any
related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as
applicable, or any sub-servicing agreement that are identified in
Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB.
Subcontractor : Any vendor, subcontractor or other Person
that (i) is a Servicing Function Participant and (ii) is not
responsible for the overall servicing of Mortgage Loans but
performs one or more discrete functions identified in Item 1122(d)
of Regulation AB with respect to Mortgage Loans under the direction
or authority of any Servicer (or a Sub-Servicer of any Servicer),
the Master Servicer, the Trustee, either Custodian or the
Securities Administrator.
Subgroup : Either of Subgroup 1, Subgroup 2 or Subgroup
3, as applicable.
Subgroup 1 : As of the Cut-off Date, consists of (a) 100%
of the principal balance of each Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage
Rate equal to or less than 5.50% per annum, and
(b) a portion of each Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate
greater than 5.50% per annum and equal to or less than 6.00% per
annum, equal to:
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Net Mortgage Rate –
5.50%
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0.50%
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Subgroup 1 Certificates : The Class A-P, Class A-R, Class
A-10, Class A-11 and Class A-12 Certificates.
Subgroup 1 Mortgage Component : Any Mortgage Component in
Subgroup 1.
Subgroup 2 : As of the Cut-off Date, consists of (a) a
portion of each Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate greater than
5.50% per annum and equal to or less than 6.00% per annum, equal
to:
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Net Mortgage Rate –
5.50%
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0.50%
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and
(b) a portion of each Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate
greater than 6.00% per annum and equal to or less than 7.00% per
annum, equal to:
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Net Mortgage Rate –
6.00%
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1.00%
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Subgroup 2 Certificates : The Class A-1, Class A-2, Class
A-3, Class A-4, Class A-5, Class A-6 and Class A-7
Certificates.
Subgroup 2 Mortgage Component : Any Mortgage Component in
Subgroup 2.
Subgroup 3 : As of the Cut-off Date, consists of (a) a
portion of each Mortgage Loan with a Net Mortgage Rate greater than
6.00% per annum and equal to or less than 7.00% per annum, equal
to:
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Net Mortgage Rate –
6.00%
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1.00%
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and
(b) 100% of the principal balance of each Mortgage Loan with a
Net Mortgage Rate greater than 7.00% per annum.
Subgroup 3 Certificates : The Class A-8 and Class A-9
Certificates.
Subgroup 3 Mortgage Component : Any Mortgage Component in
Subgroup 3.
Subgroup Subordinate Amount : As to any Subgroup, the
excess of the Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Components
of that Subgroup (less, with respect to Subgroup 1, the
applicable Class PO Fraction of any Class PO Mortgage Component
with respect to such Subgroup) as of the first day of the month
preceding the month in which such Distribution Date occurs over the
sum of the aggregate Class Principal Amounts of the Senior
Certificates (other than the Class A-P Certificates) related to
that Subgroup.
Subordinate Certificates : The Class B-1, Class B-2,
Class B-3, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates.
Subordinate Certificate Writedown Amount : With respect
to the Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates and any Distribution
Date, the amount, if any, by which the aggregate of the Class
Principal Amounts of all outstanding Classes of Certificates, other
than the Class P Certificates, on that Distribution Date (after
giving effect to the distribution of principal and allocation of
Realized Losses on such Distribution Date) exceeds the Aggregate
Stated Principal Balance of the Aggregate Pool for the following
Distribution Date.
Subordinate Class Percentage : As to any Distribution
Date and any Class of Mezzanine or Subordinate Certificates, a
fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the
Class Principal Amount of that Class of Mezzanine or Subordinate
Certificates immediately prior to that date, and the denominator
which is the aggregate Class Principal Amount for all Classes of
Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates immediately prior to such
date.
Subordinate Percentage : With respect to any Distribution
Date and the Aggregate Pool, the percentage equivalent of a
fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate
Class Principal Amount of the Mezzanine and Subordinate
Certificates immediately prior to that date, and the denominator of
which is the Pool Balance for the Aggregate Pool (other than the
Class PO Fraction of the Class PO Mortgage Components) and such
Distribution Date.
With respect to each Mortgage Group and any Distribution Date,
the difference between 100% and the related Senior Percentage for
such Mortgage Group for such Distribution Date.
Subordinate Prepayment Percentage : With respect to any
Distribution Date and for each Mortgage Group, the difference
between 100% and the related Senior Prepayment Percentage for such
Mortgage Group for that Distribution Date.
Subordinate Principal Distribution Amount : For the
Mezzanine and Subordinate Certificates and for each Distribution
Date, the sum of the following amounts with respect to each
Mortgage Group:
(1)
the product of (a) the Subordinate Percentage and (b) the
principal portion of each Scheduled Payment on each Mortgage
Component in the related Subgroup due during the related Due
Period;
(2)
the product of (i) the Subordinate Prepayment Percentage and
(ii) each of the following amounts: (A) the principal portion of
each Principal Prepayment and Principal Prepayment In Full in the
related Mortgage Group during the related Prepayment Period; (B)
each other unscheduled collection (other than as set forth in (3)
below), including Insurance Proceeds and Net Liquidation Proceeds
(other than with respect to any Mortgage Loan or Mortgage
Component, as applicable, in the related Mortgage Group that was
finally liquidated during the related Prepayment Period)
representing or allocable to recoveries of principal of the related
Mortgage Loans or a Mortgage Component, as applicable, received
during the related Prepayment Period, including any Subsequent
Recoveries on the related Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Component, as
applicable; (C) the principal portion of any Purchase Price or of
the Substitution Amount received with respect to the related
Prepayment Period and (D) the portion of the Redemption Price up to
the Par Value;
(3)
with respect to unscheduled recoveries allocable to principal of
any Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Component in the related Pool or
Subgroup that was finally liquidated during the related Prepayment
Period, the related net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to
principal, to the extent not distributed pursuant to clause (c) of
the definition of Senior Principal Distribution Amount; and
(4)
any amounts described in clauses (1) through (3) for any
previous Distribution Date that remain unpaid
Minus the sum of:
(A)
if the aggregate Class Principal Amount of the Senior
Certificates relating to a Mortgage Group has been reduced to zero,
principal paid from the related Available Distribution Amount from
that Subgroup to the remaining Senior Certificates relating to such
other Subgroups pursuant to Section 5.02(g) or (h), as applicable,
on that Distribution Date; and
(B)
the amounts paid from the Available Distribution Amount for any
Mortgage Group that is an Overcollateralized Group to the Senior
Certificates relating to any Mortgage Group that is an
Undercollateralized Group, pursuant to Section 5.02(i) or (j), as
applicable, on that Distribution Date.
Subsequent Recoveries : With respect to any Distribution
Date, with respect to a Liquidated Mortgage Loan that resulted in a
Realized Loss in a prior calendar month, amounts received by the
Securities Administrator from the Master Servicer or Servicer,
specifically related to such Liquidated Mortgage Loan.
Substitution Amount : As defined in the second paragraph
of Section 2.05(b).
Tax Matters Person : With respect to each REMIC created
hereby, the "tax matters person" as specified in the REMIC
Provisions, which shall initially be the Holders of the related
Residual Certificate.
Trust Agreement : The Trust Agreement dated as of
December 1, 2006, entered into by and among the Depositor, the
Exchange Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Securities
Administrator for the issuance of the Exchangeable
Certificates.
Trust Fund : The corpus of the trust created pursuant to
this Agreement, consisting of the Mortgage Loans and all interest
and principal received thereon on or after the Cut-off Date (other
than Scheduled Payments due on or prior to the Cut-off Date), the
Depositor’s rights assigned to the Trustee under the Purchase
and Servicing Agreements, the Purchase Agreements and the Servicing
Agreements, as modified by the Acknowledgements, the Trust’s
rights under the Yield Maintenance Agreement, the Insurance
Policies relating to the Mortgage Loans, all cash, instruments or
property held or required to be held in the Custodial Accounts, the
Distribution Account, property that secured a Mortgage Loan, the
pledge, control and guaranty agreements.
Trustee : U.S. Bank National Association, a national
banking association, organized under the laws of the United States
and any Person succeeding the Trustee hereunder, or if any
successor trustee or any co-trustee shall be appointed as herein
provided, then such successor trustee and such co-trustee, as the
case may be.
Trustee Mortgage Files : as defined in Section
2.01(a).
UCC : The Uniform Commercial Code as enacted in the
relevant jurisdiction.
Uncertificated Interest : The LT-R-1 or MT1-R-1
Interests.
Uncertificated REMIC Interests: The Class A-10, Class
A-11 and Class A-12 Certificates.
Undercollateralized Group : Any Certificate Group in
which the aggregate Class Principal Amount of the related class or
classes Senior Certificates (other than the Class A-P Certificates)
is greater than the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
related Mortgage Components (less the applicable Class PO Fraction
of any Class PO Mortgage Component) or Mortgage Loans, as
applicable.
Underwriter : J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Underwriter’s Exemption : The prohibited
transaction exemption granted to the Underwriter, or its affiliate,
and most recently amended and restated by PTE 2002 19, or any
substantially similar administrative exemption granted by the U.S.
Department of Labor to the Underwriter.
Underwriting Agreement : The Underwriting Agreement,
dated December 21, 2006, among the Seller, the Depositor and the
Underwriter.
Uniform Commercial Code : The Uniform Commercial Code as
in effect in any applicable jurisdiction from time to time.
Upper-Tier REMIC 1 : As described in the Preliminary
Statement.
Upper-Tier REMIC : Upper-Tier REMIC 1.
U.S. Central : U.S. Central Federal Credit Union,
or any successor in interest.
U.S. Central Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan
originated by U.S. Central and listed on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule.
U.S. Central Purchase and Servicing Agreement : Each
agreement between the Seller and U.S. Central listed under the
heading "Purchase Agreements" in Exhibit E hereto.
Voting Interests : The portion of the voting rights of
all the Certificates that is allocated to any Certificate for
purposes of the voting provisions of this Agreement. At all
times during the term of this Agreement, 1.00% of all Voting
Interests shall be allocated to each of the Class A-R and Class A-X
Certificates and all other Classes of Certificates, other than the
Class P Certificates, will be allocated 98.00% of all Voting
Interests. Voting Interests shall be allocated among such
other Classes of Certificates based on the product of (i) 98.00%
and (ii) the fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of
which is the aggregate Class Principal Amounts for each Class then
outstanding and the denominator of which is the Class Principal
Amounts of all Certificates outstanding. Voting Interests
shall be allocated among the Certificates within each such Class in
proportion to their Certificate Principal Amounts or Class National
Amounts, as applicable, or Percentage Interests. The Class P
Certificates shall not be entitled to any Voting Interests.
WAMU : Washington Mutual Bank, or any successor in
interest.
WAMU Servicing Agreement : Each agreement between
the Seller and WAMU listed under the heading "Purchase and
Servicing Agreements" in Exhibit E hereto, as modified by the
related Acknowledgement.
WMMSC : Washington Mutual Mortgage Securities Corp., or
any successor in interest.
WMMSC Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan originated
by WMMSC and listed on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
WMMSC Purchase Agreement : Each agreement between
the Seller and WMMSC listed under the heading "Purchase and
Servicing Agreements" in Exhibit E hereto, as modified by the
related Acknowledgement.
Wells Fargo : Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. or its successors in
interest.
Weichert : Mortgage Access Corp., d/b/a/ Weichert
Financial Services, or any successor in interest.
Weichert Mortgage Loan : Each Mortgage Loan originated by
Weichert and listed on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Weichert Purchase Agreement : Each agreement between the
Seller and Weichert listed under the heading "Purchase Agreements"
in Exhibit E hereto.
Yield Maintenance Agreement : The yield maintenance
agreement between the Trust Fund and the Counterparty documented
pursuant to an ISDA Master Agreement (Multicurrency-Cross Border),
together with a schedule and a confirmation for the benefit of the
Class A-1 Certificates.
Yield Maintenance Agreement Notional Amount : With
respect to the Yield Maintenance Agreement and any Distribution
Date, the notional amount indicated for such Distribution Date on
Schedule I to the Yield Maintenance Agreement.
Yield Maintenance Agreement Termination Date : The
Distribution Date in March 2011.
SECTION 1.02
Calculations Respecting Mortgage Loans.
Calculations required to be made pursuant to this Agreement with
respect to any Mortgage Loan in the Trust Fund shall be made based
upon current information as to the terms of the Mortgage Loans and
reports of payments received from the Mortgagor on such Mortgage
Loans and payments to be made to the Securities Administrator as
supplied to the Securities Administrator by the Master Servicer or
the related Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall not
be required to recompute, verify or recalculate the information
supplied to it by the Master Servicer or a Servicer.
ARTICLE II
DECLARATION OF TRUST;
ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES
SECTION 2.01
Creation and Declaration of Trust Fund; Conveyance of Mortgage
Loans.
(a)
Concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement,
the Depositor does hereby transfer, assign, set over, deposit with
and otherwise convey to the Trustee, without recourse, subject to
Sections 2.02 and 2.05, in trust, all the right, title and interest
of the Depositor in and to the Trust Fund. Such conveyance
includes, without limitation: (i) the Mortgage Loans, including the
right to all payments of principal and interest received on or with
respect to the Mortgage Loans on and after the Cut-off Date (other
than Scheduled Payments due on or before such date), and all such
payments due after such date but received prior to such date and
intended by the related Mortgagors to be applied after such date;
(ii) all of the Depositor’s right, title and interest in and
to all amounts from time to time credited to and the proceeds of
the Distribution Account, any Custodial Accounts or any Escrow
Account established with respect to the Mortgage Loans; (iii) all
of the rights of the Depositor as assignee of the Seller with
respect to the Seller’s rights under the Purchase and
Servicing Agreement, the Servicing Agreements and the Purchase
Agreements pursuant to the Acknowledgements; (iv) all of the
Depositor’s right, title or interest in REO Property and the
proceeds thereof; (v) all of the Depositor’s rights under any
Insurance Policies related to the Mortgage Loans; and (vi) if
applicable, the Depositor’s security interest in any
collateral pledged to secure the Mortgage Loans, including the
Mortgaged Properties, including, but not limited to, the pledge,
control and guaranty agreements and the Limited Purpose Surety Bond
to have and to hold, in trust; and the Trustee declares that,
subject to the review provided for in Section 2.02, it has received
and shall hold the Trust Fund, as trustee, in trust, for the
benefit and use of the Holders of the Certificates and for the
purposes and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement, and, concurrently with such receipt, has caused to be
executed, authenticated and delivered to or upon the order of the
Depositor, in exchange for the Trust Fund, Certificates in the
authorized denominations evidencing the entire ownership of the
Trust Fund. In addition, on or prior to the Closing Date, the
Securities Administrator or the Trustee shall execute the Yield
Maintenance Agreement and the Depositor hereby directs the
Securities Administrator or the Trustee to do so.
The foregoing sale, transfer, assignment, set-over, deposit and
conveyance does not and is not intended to result in the creation
or assumption by the Trustee of any obligation of the Depositor,
the Seller or any other Person in connection with the Mortgage
Loans or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto except
as specifically set forth therein.
In connection with such transfer and assignment of the Mortgage
Loans, the applicable Custodian acting on the Trustee’s
behalf, will continue to hold the documents or instruments listed
below with respect to each Mortgage Loan (each, a "Trustee Mortgage
File") so transferred and assigned.
The Trustee shall be under no 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 the Closing Date, each Custodian shall deliver to the
Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the Depositor, a
certification ("Custodian Certification") substantially in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit L certifying that, pursuant to each
related Custodial Agreement, the applicable Originator delivered
and released to such Custodian, subject to and in accordance with
the relevant section of each related Purchase and Servicing
Agreement, Purchase Agreement or Custodial Agreement, the following
documents pertaining to each of the Mortgage Loans identified in
the Mortgage Loan Schedule (provided, however, that a Custodian
shall not be required nor does it intend to re-examine the contents
of the Trustee Mortgage File for any of the Mortgage Loans in
connection with entering into this Agreement or providing the
Custodian Certification required pursuant to this Section
2.01):
(i)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan, the original Mortgage Note
endorsed without recourse in proper form to the order of the
Trustee, or in blank (in each case, with all necessary intervening
endorsements, as applicable);
(ii)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan (other than a Cooperative
Loan) that is not a MERS Mortgage Loan, the original Mortgage with
evidence of recording thereon or a recorded copy and in the case of
the each MERS Mortgage Loan, the original 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 if the
original Mortgage assignment has not yet been returned from the
recording office, a copy of such Mortgage certified by the
applicable Originator to be a true copy of the original of the
Mortgage which has been sent for recording in the appropriate
jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Property is located;
(iii)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan (other than a Cooperative
Loan) that is not a MERS Mortgage Loan, the Assignment of Mortgage
in form and substance acceptable for recording in the relevant
jurisdiction, such assignment being either (A) in blank, without
recourse, or (B) endorsed to "U.S. Bank National Association, as
Trustee of J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2006-S4, Mortgage
Pass-Through Certificates, without recourse";
(iv)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan (other than a Cooperative
Loan) that is not a MERS Mortgage Loan, the originals of all
intervening assignments of the Mortgage, if any, with evidence of
recording thereon or a recorded copy, or if the original
intervening assignment has not yet been returned from the recording
office, a copy of such assignment certified by the applicable
Originator to be a true copy of the original of the assignment
which has been sent for recording in the appropriate jurisdiction
in which the Mortgaged Property is located;
(v)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan (other than a Cooperative
Loan), the originals of all assumption, modification, consolidation
or extension agreements, if any, with evidence of recording
thereon; or if the original assumption, modification, consolidation
or extension agreements has not yet been returned from the
recording office, a copy of such documents certified by the
applicable Originator to be a true copy of the original of the
Mortgage which has been sent for recording in the appropriate
jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Property is located;
(vi)
if applicable, with respect to each Mortgage Loan (other than a
Cooperative Loan), the original policy of title insurance (or a
true copy thereof) with respect to any such Mortgage Loan, or, if
such policy has not yet been delivered by the insurer, the title
commitment or title binder to issue same;
(vii)
if applicable, with respect to each Mortgage Loan (other than a
Cooperative Loan), a copy of the power of attorney and guaranty
agreement with respect to such Mortgage Loan;
(viii)
if applicable, the original or certified copy of the
certificates evidencing ownership of the Cooperative Shares issued
by the Cooperative Corporation and related assignment of such
certificates or an assignment of such Cooperative Shares, in blank,
executed by the Mortgagor with such signature guaranteed;
(ix)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan which constitutes a
Cooperative Loan:
(1)
the original of any security agreement or similar document
executed in connection with the Cooperative Loan;
(2)
the original Recognition Agreement;
(3)
UCC-1 financing statements with recording information thereon
from the appropriate governmental recording offices if necessary to
perfect the security interest of the Cooperative Loan under the
Uniform Commercial Code in the jurisdiction in which the
Cooperative Property is located, accompanied by UCC-3 financing
statements executed in blank for recordation of the change in the
secured party thereunder;
(4)
the original Proprietary Lease and the Assignment of Proprietary
Lease executed by the Mortgagor in blank or if the Proprietary
Lease has been assigned by the Mortgagor to the Seller, then the
Seller must execute an assignment of the Assignment of Proprietary
Lease in blank; and
(5)
any other document or instruments required to be delivered under
the related Custodial Agreement.
In addition, in connection with the assignment of any MERS
Mortgage Loan, it is understood that the related Originator will
cause the MERS® System to indicate that such Mortgage Loans
have been assigned by the related Originator to the Trustee in
accordance with this Agreement for the benefit of the
Certificateholders by including (or deleting, in the case of
Mortgage Loans which are repurchased in accordance with this
Agreement) in such computer files the information required by the
MERS® System to identify the series of Certificates issued in
connection with such Mortgage Loans. It is further understood
that the related Originator will not, and the Servicer hereby
agrees that it will not, alter the information referenced in this
paragraph with respect to any Mortgage Loan during the term of this
Agreement unless and until such Mortgage Loan is repurchased in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(b)
[Reserved].
(c)
In instances where a title insurance policy is required to be
delivered to the Trustee or a Custodian on behalf of the Trustee
and is not so delivered, the Depositor will provide a copy of such
title insurance policy to the Trustee, or to the applicable
Custodian on behalf of the Trustee, as promptly as practicable
after the execution and delivery hereof, but in any case within 180
days of the Closing Date.
(d)
For Mortgage Loans (if any) that have been prepaid in full after
the Cut-off Date and prior to the Closing Date, the Depositor, in
lieu of delivering the above documents, herewith delivers to the
Trustee, or to the applicable Custodian on behalf of the Trustee,
an Officer’s Certificate which shall include a statement to
the effect that all amounts received in connection with such
prepayment that are required to be deposited in the Distribution
Account pursuant to Section 4.01 have been so deposited. All
original documents that are not delivered to the Trustee or the
applicable Custodian on behalf of the Trustee shall be held by the
related Servicer in trust for the benefit of the Trustee and the
Certificateholders.
(e)
The Depositor and the Trustee hereto agree and understand that
it is not intended that any Mortgage Loan be included in the Trust
Fund that is (i) a "High-Cost Home Loan" as defined in the New
Jersey Home Ownership Act effective November 27, 2003, (ii) a
"High-Cost Home Loan" as defined in the New Mexico Home Loan
Protection Act effective January 1, 2004, (iii) a "High Cost Home
Mortgage Loan" as defined in the Massachusetts Predatory Home Loan
Practices Act effective November 7, 2004, (iv) a "high risk
home loan" under the Illinois High Risk Home Loan Act, effective as
of January 1, 2004, or (v) a "high-cost home loan" under the
Indiana High Cost Home Loan Law, effective January 1, 2005.
The Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification from
the Depositor and the Trust Fund for any loss, liability or expense
arising out of, or in connection with, the provisions of this
Section 2.01(e), including, without limitation, all costs,
liabilities and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and
expenses) of investigating and defending itself against any claim,
action or proceeding, pending or threatened, relating to such
provisions.
SECTION 2.02
Acceptance of Trust Fund by Trustee; Review of Documentation for
Trust Fund.
(a)
The Trustee, by execution and delivery hereof, acknowledges
receipt by it or by the Custodian on its behalf of the Trustee
Mortgage Files pertaining to the Mortgage Loans listed on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule.
(b)
With respect to the Mortgage Loans, in the event there exist
exceptions noted on the related Custodian Certification
(substantially in the form of Exhibit L), not later than 270 days
after the Closing Date the related Custodian shall deliver to the
Trustee and the Depositor a further certification with any
applicable exceptions noted thereon.
(c)
Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to constitute an
assumption by the Trust Fund, the Securities Administrator, the
Trustee, any Custodian or the Certificateholders of any unsatisfied
duty, claim or other liability on any Mortgage Loan or to any
Mortgagor.
(d)
Each of the parties hereto acknowledges that (i) each Custodian
has performed the applicable review of the Mortgage Loans and has
delivered the Custodian Certification as provided herein and in the
Custodial Agreements on the Closing Date and (ii) thereafter, if
applicable, each Custodian shall perform the applicable review of
the Mortgage Loans and deliver the further certifications as
provided herein and in the applicable Custodial Agreements.
(e)
Upon execution of this Agreement, the Depositor hereby delivers
to the Trustee and the Trustee acknowledges receipt of the
Acknowledgements, together with the related Purchase and Servicing
Agreements and Servicing Agreements.
SECTION 2.03
Representations and Warranties of the Depositor.
(a)
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Trustee, for
the benefit of the Certificateholders, and to the Servicer, the
Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator as of the Closing
Date or such other date as is specified, that:
(i)
the Depositor is a corporation duly organized, validly existing
and in good standing under the laws governing its creation and
existence and has full corporate power and authority to own its
property, to carry on its business as presently conducted, to enter
into and perform its obligations under this Agreement, and to
create the trust pursuant hereto;
(ii)
the execution and delivery by the Depositor of this Agreement
have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the
part of the Depositor; neither the execution and delivery of this
Agreement, nor the consummation of the transactions herein
contemplated, nor compliance with the provisions hereof, will
conflict with or result in a breach of, or constitute a default
under, any of the provisions of any law, governmental rule,
regulation, judgment, decree or order binding on the Depositor or
its properties or the certificate of incorporation or bylaws of the
Depositor;
(iii)
the execution, delivery and performance by the Depositor of this
Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby do not require the consent or approval of, the giving of
notice to, the registration with, or the taking of any other action
in respect of, any state, federal or other governmental authority
or agency, except such as has been obtained, given, effected or
taken prior to the date hereof;
(iv)
this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the
Depositor and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery
by the Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Securities
Administrator, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the
Depositor enforceable against it in accordance with its terms
except as such enforceability may be subject to (A) applicable
bankruptcy and insolvency laws and other similar laws affecting the
enforcement of the rights of creditors generally and (B) general
principles of equity regardless of whether such enforcement is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;
(v)
there are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the
knowledge of the Depositor, threatened or likely to be asserted
against or affecting the Depositor, before or by any court,
administrative agency, arbitrator or governmental body (A) with
respect to any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
or (B) with respect to any other matter which in the judgment of
the Depositor will be determined adversely to the Depositor and
will if determined adversely to the Depositor materially and
adversely affect it or its business, assets, operations or
condition, financial or otherwise, or adversely affect its ability
to perform its obligations under this Agreement;
(vi)
immediately prior to the transfer and assignment of the Mortgage
Loans to the Trustee, the Depositor was the sole owner of record
and holder of each Mortgage Loan, and the Depositor had good and
marketable title thereto, and had full right to transfer and sell
each Mortgage Loan to the Trustee free and clear, subject only to
(1) liens of current real property taxes and assessments not yet
due and payable and, if the related Mortgaged Property is a
condominium unit, any lien for common charges permitted by statute,
(2) covenants, conditions and restrictions, rights of way,
easements and other matters of public record as of the date of
recording of such Mortgage acceptable to mortgage lending
institutions in the area in which the related Mortgaged Property is
located and specifically referred to in the lender’s title
insurance policy or attorney’s opinion of title and abstract
of title delivered to the originator of such Mortgage Loan, and (3)
such other matters to which like properties are commonly subject
which do not, individually or in the aggregate, materially
interfere with the benefits of the security intended to be provided
by the Mortgage, of any encumbrance, equity, participation
interest, lien, pledge, charge, claim or security interest, and had
full right and authority, subject to no interest or participation
of, or agreement with, any other party, to sell and assign each
Mortgage Loan pursuant to this Agreement;
(vii)
This Agreement creates a valid and continuing security interest
(as defined in the applicable Uniform Commercial Code (the "UCC"),
in the Mortgage Loans in favor of the Trustee, which security
interest is prior to all other liens, and is enforceable as such
against creditors of and purchasers from the Depositor;
(viii)
The Mortgage Loans constitute "instruments" within the meaning
of the applicable UCC;
(ix)
Other than the security interest granted to the Trustee pursuant
to this Agreement, the Depositor has not pledged, assigned, sold,
granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the
Mortgage Loans. The Depositor has not authorized the filing
of and is not aware of any financing statement against the
Depositor that includes a description of the collateral covering
the Mortgage Loans other than a financing statement relating to the
security interest granted to the Trustee hereunder or that has been
terminated. The Depositor is not aware of any judgment or tax
lien filings against the Depositor;
(x)
None of the Mortgage Loans have any marks or notations
indicating that such Mortgage Loans have been pledged, assigned or
otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Trustee; and
(xi)
The Depositor has received all consents and approvals required
by the terms of the Mortgage Loans to convey the Mortgage Loans
hereunder to the Trustee.
The foregoing representations made in this Section 2.03 shall
survive the termination of this Agreement and shall not be waived
by any party hereto
SECTION 2.04
Representations and Warranties as to the Mortgage Loans.
(a)
Representations and Warranties of the Depositor as to the
Mortgage Loans .
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Trustee with
respect to the Mortgage Loans or each Mortgage Loan, as the case
may be, as of the date hereof or such other date set forth herein
that as of the Closing Date:
(i)
Immediately prior to the transfer and assignment contemplated
herein, the Depositor was the sole owner and holder of the Mortgage
Loans. The Mortgage Loans were not assigned or pledged by the
Depositor and the Depositor had good and marketable title thereto,
and the Depositor had full right to transfer and sell the Mortgage
Loans to the Trustee free and clear of any encumbrance,
participation interest, lien, equity, pledge, claim or security
interest and had full right and authority subject to no interest or
participation in, or agreement with any other party to sell or
otherwise transfer the Mortgage Loans.
(ii)
As of the Closing Date, the Depositor has transferred all right,
title and interest in the Mortgage Loans to the Trustee on behalf
of the Trust.
(iii)
As of the Closing Date, the Depositor has not transferred the
Mortgage Loans to the Trustee on behalf of the Trust with any
intent to hinder, delay or defraud an of its creditors.
It is understood and agreed that the representations and
warranties set forth in this Section 2.04 shall survive delivery of
the respective Mortgage Files to the Trustee or the applicable
Custodian and shall inure to the benefit of the Trustee,
notwithstanding any restrictive or qualified endorsement or
assignment.
SECTION 2.05
Discovery of Breach; Repurchase or Substitution of Mortgage
Loans; Representations and Warranties of Seller as to the Mortgage
Loans.
(a)
Upon discovery by the Depositor, the Seller or the related
Originator or receipt of written notice of any materially defective
document in, or, following the date of delivery to the Trustee of
the applicable Custodian’s certifications as required under
the related Custodial Agreements, that a document is missing from,
a Trustee Mortgage File, or discovery by the Trustee, the
Securities Administrator, the Depositor, the Seller or the related
Originator of the breach by such Originator or Seller of any
representation or warranty under the related Purchase and Servicing
Agreement or Purchase Agreement, as applicable, as modified by the
Acknowledgement, in the case of the Originator, or under this
Agreement, in the case of the Seller, in respect of any Mortgage
Loan which materially adversely affects the value of that Mortgage
Loan or the interest therein of the Certificateholders (a
"Defective Mortgage Loan") (each of the Depositor, the Seller and
the related Originator hereby agreeing to give written notice
thereof to the Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the other
of such parties), the Securities Administrator, or its designee,
shall promptly notify the Depositor, the Trustee and the Seller or
the related Originator, as applicable, in writing of such defective
or missing document or breach and request that the Seller or
related Originator deliver such missing document or cure or cause
the cure of such defect or breach within a period of time specified
in the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Purchase
Agreement, as applicable, and if the Trustee receives written
notice that the Seller or related Originator, as applicable, has
not delivered such missing document or cured such defect or breach
in all material respects during such period, the Trustee, on behalf
of the Trust, shall enforce the obligations of the related
Originator under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or
Purchase Agreement, as applicable, as modified by the
Acknowledgement, or, to the extent that the related Originator
fails to cure such defect or breach, the Seller under this
Agreement, and shall cause the related Originator or the Seller, as
the case may be, to repurchase that Mortgage Loan from the Trust
Fund at the Purchase Price on or prior to the Determination Date
following the expiration of such specified period (subject to
Section 2.05(b) below); provided, however , that, in
connection with any such breach that could not reasonably have been
cured within such specified period (unless permitted a greater
period of time to cure under the related Purchase and Servicing
Agreement or Purchase Agreement, as applicable), subject to Section
2.05(c) below, if the related Originator or the Seller, as
applicable, shall have commenced to cure such breach within such
specified period, the related Originator or the Seller shall be
permitted to proceed thereafter diligently and expeditiously to
cure the same within such additional time as is reasonably
determined by the Trustee to cure such breach. To the extent
that any costs and damages are incurred by the Trust Fund as a
result of any violation of any applicable federal, state, or local
predatory or abusive lending law arising from or in connection with
the origination of any Mortgage Loan repurchased by the related
Originator or the Seller, such costs and damages shall be included
in the Purchase Price of such repurchased Mortgage Loan and shall
be borne by the Seller. The Purchase Price for the
repurchased Mortgage Loan shall be deposited in the related
Distribution Account, and the Trustee, or its designee, upon
receipt of written certification from the Securities Administrator
of such deposit, shall release or cause the applicable Custodian to
release to the related Originator or the Seller, as applicable, the
related Trustee Mortgage File and shall execute and deliver such
instruments of transfer or assignment, in each case without
recourse, representation or warranties, as either party shall
furnish to it and as shall be necessary to vest in such party any
Mortgage Loan released pursuant hereto and the Trustee, or its
designee, shall have no further responsibility with regard to such
Trustee Mortgage File (it being understood that the Trustee shall
have no responsibility for determining the sufficiency of such
assignment for its intended purpose). If pursuant to the
foregoing provisions the related Originator or the Seller
repurchases a Mortgage Loan that is a MERS Mortgage Loan, the
related Servicer shall cause MERS to designate on the MERS®
System the related Originator or the Seller, as applicable, as the
beneficial holder of such Mortgage Loan.
In lieu of repurchasing any such Mortgage Loan as provided
above, either party may cause such Mortgage Loan to be removed from
the Trust Fund (in which case it shall become a Deleted Mortgage
Loan) and substitute one or more Replacement Mortgage Loans in the
manner and subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2.05(b)
below. It is understood and agreed that the obligations of
the Originators and the Seller to cure or to repurchase (or to
substitute for) any related Mortgage Loan as to which a document is
missing, a material defect in a constituent document exists or as
to which such a breach has occurred and is continuing shall
constitute the sole remedy against the such party respecting such
omission, defect or breach available to the Trustee on behalf of
the Certificateholders.
(b)
Any substitution of Replacement Mortgage Loans for Deleted
Mortgage Loans made pursuant to Section 2.05(a) above must be
effected prior to the last Business Day that is within two years
after the Closing Date. As to any Deleted Mortgage Loan for
which the related Originator or the Seller substitutes a
Replacement Mortgage Loan or Loans, such substitution shall be
effected by delivering to the applicable Custodian, on behalf of
the Trustee, for such Replacement Mortgage Loan or Loans, the
Mortgage Note, the Mortgage, the Assignment to the Trustee, and
such other documents and agreements, with all necessary
endorsements thereon, together with an Officers’ Certificate
stating that each such Replacement Mortgage Loan satisfies the
definition thereof and specifying the Substitution Amount (as
described below), if any, in connection with such substitution.
Monthly Payments due with respect to Replacement Mortgage
Loans in the month of substitution shall not be included as part of
the Trust Fund and shall be retained by the related Originator or
the Seller, as applicable. For the month of substitution,
distributions to the Certificateholders shall reflect the
collections and recoveries in respect of such Deleted Mortgage in
the Due Period preceding the month of substitution and the related
Originator or the Seller, as applicable, shall thereafter be
entitled to retain all amounts subsequently received in respect of
such Deleted Mortgage Loan. Upon such substitution, such
Replacement Mortgage Loan shall constitute part of the Trust Fund
and shall be subject in all respects to the terms of this Agreement
and the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Purchase
Agreement, as applicable, as modified by the related
Acknowledgement, including all representations and warranties
thereof included in such Purchase and Servicing Agreement or
Purchase Agreement, as applicable, as modified by the
Acknowledgement, in each case as of the date of substitution.
For any month in which an Originator or the Seller substitutes
one or more Replacement Mortgage Loans for one or more Deleted
Mortgage Loans, the related Servicer shall determine the excess
(each, a "Substitution Amount"), if any, by which the aggregate
Purchase Price of all such Deleted Mortgage Loans exceeds the
aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Replacement Mortgage
Loans replacing such Deleted Mortgage Loans, together with one
month’s interest on such excess amount at the applicable Net
Mortgage Rate. On the date of such substitution, the related
Originator or Seller, as applicable, shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to the related Servicer for deposit in the related
Custodial Account an amount equal to the related Substitution
Amount, if any, and the applicable Custodian, on behalf of the
Trustee, upon receipt of the related Replacement Mortgage Loan or
Loans and certification by such Servicer of such deposit, shall
release to the related Originator or the Seller, as applicable, the
related Trustee Mortgage File or Files and shall execute and
deliver such instruments of transfer or assignment, in each case
without recourse, representation or warranty as the related
Originator or Seller shall deliver to it and as shall be necessary
to vest therein any Deleted Mortgage Loan released pursuant
hereto.
In addition, the related Originator or the Seller, as
applicable, shall obtain at its own expense and deliver to the
Trustee and the Securities Administrator an Opinion of Counsel to
the effect that such substitution (either specifically or as a
class of transactions) shall not cause an Adverse REMIC Event.
If such Opinion of Counsel can not be delivered, then such
substitution may only be effected at such time as the required
Opinion of Counsel can be given.
(c)
Upon discovery by the related Originator, the Seller, the
Depositor 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 within two (2)
Business Days give written notice thereof to the other parties.
In connection therewith, the applicable party shall
repurchase or, subject to the limitations set forth in Section
2.05(b), substitute one or more Replacement Mortgage Loans for the
affected Mortgage Loan within 90 days of the earlier of discovery
or receipt of such notice with respect to such affected Mortgage
Loan. Any such repurchase or substitution shall be made in
the same manner as set forth in Section 2.05(a) above. The
Trustee shall re-convey to the related Originator or the Seller, as
applicable, 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.
(d)
Representations and Warranties of the Seller as to the
Mortgage Loans .
The Seller hereby represents and warrants to the Trustee:
(i)
The representations and warranties of JPMCB with respect to the
Chase Originators Mortgage Loans in the JPMCB Purchase and
Servicing Agreement, which has been assigned to the Trustee, were
made as of the applicable Bring-Down Date, as specified in the
related Purchase and Servicing Agreement. With respect to the
Chase Originators Mortgage Loans and the period from such
Bring-Down Date to and including the Closing Date, the Seller
hereby makes the representations and warranties contained in
Section 3.02 of the JPMCB Purchase and Servicing Agreement with
respect to each of the Chase Originators Mortgage Loans to and for
the benefit of the Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust Fund.
(ii)
The representations and warranties of American Home with respect
to the American Home Mortgage Loans in the American Home Purchase
Agreement, which has been assigned to the Trustee, were made as of
the applicable Bring-Down Date, as specified in the American Home
Purchase Agreement. With respect to the American Home
Mortgage Loans and the period from such Bring-Down Date to and
including the Closing Date, the Seller hereby makes the
representations and warranties contained in Section 7.01 of the
American Home Purchase Agreement with respect to each of the
American Home Mortgage Loans to and for the benefit of the
Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust Fund.
(iii)
The representations and warranties of Flagstar with respect to
the Flagstar Mortgage Loans in the Flagstar Purchase and Servicing
Agreement, which has been assigned to the Trustee, were made as of
the applicable Bring-Down Date, as specified in the related
Purchase and Servicing Agreement. With respect to the
Flagstar Mortgage Loans and the period from such Bring-Down Date to
and including the Closing Date, the Seller hereby makes the
representations and warranties contained in Section 7.01 of the
Flagstar Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to each of
the Flagstar Mortgage Loans to and for the benefit of the
Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust Fund, with the exception of
the representations and warranties set forth in Section 7.01(n),
(p), (x) and (mm).
(iv)
The representations and warranties of NetBank with respect to
the NetBank Mortgage Loans in the related NetBank Purchase
Agreement, which have been assigned to the Trustee hereunder, were
made as of the applicable Bring-Down Date, as specified in the
NetBank Purchase Agreement. With respect to the NetBank
Mortgage Loans and the period from such Bring-Down Date to and
including the Closing Date, the Seller hereby makes the
representations and warranties contained in Section 7.02 of the
NetBank Purchase Agreement with respect to each of NetBank Mortgage
Loans to and for the benefit of the Depositor, the Trustee and the
Trust Fund.
(v)
The representations and warranties of CTX with respect to the
CTX Mortgage Loans in the CTX Purchase and Servicing Agreement,
which have been assigned to the Trustee hereunder, were made as of
the applicable Bring-Down Date, as specified in the CTX Purchase
and Servicing Agreement. With respect to the CTX Mortgage
Loans and the period from such Bring-Down Date to and including the
Closing Date, the Seller hereby makes the representations and
warranties contained in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (g), (h),
(i), (k), (l), (n), (o), (p), (q), (t) (u), (w), (x), (aa), (cc),
(ee), (gg), (hh), (jj), (kk), (mm), (nn), (oo), (pp), (rr), (vv),
(bbb), (ccc), (ddd), (eee), (fff), (ggg), (hhh), (iii) and (jjj) of
Section 7.01 of the CTX Purchase and Servicing Agreement with
respect to each of the CTX Mortgage Loans to and for the benefit of
the Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust Fund.
(vi)
The representations and warranties of U.S. Central with respect
to the U.S. Central Mortgage Loans in the U.S. Central Purchase and
Servicing Agreement, which has been assigned to the Trustee, were
made as of the applicable Bring-Down Date, as specified in the
related Purchase and Servicing Agreement. With respect to the
U.S. Central Mortgage Loans and the period from such Bring-Down
Date to and including the Closing Date, the Seller hereby makes the
representations and warranties contained in Section 3.02 of the
U.S. Central Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to each
of the U.S. Central Mortgage Loans to and for the benefit of the
Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust Fund.
(vii)
The representations and warranties of Weichert with respect to
the Weichert Mortgage Loans in the Weichert Purchase Agreement,
which has been assigned to the Trustee, were made as of the
applicable Bring-Down Date, as specified in the Weichert Purchase
Agreement. With respect to the Weichert Mortgage Loans and
the period from such Bring-Down Date to and including the Closing
Date, the Seller hereby makes the representations and warranties
contained in Section 7.01 of the Weichert Purchase Agreement with
respect to each of the Weichert Mortgage Loans to and for the
benefit of the Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust Fund.
(viii)
The representations and warranties of Countrywide with respect
to the Countrywide Mortgage Loans in the Countrywide Purchase and
Servicing Agreement, which has been assigned to the Trustee, were
made as of the applicable Bring-Down Date, as specified in the
related Purchase and Servicing Agreement. With respect to the
Countrywide Mortgage Loans and the period from such Bring-Down Date
to and including the Closing Date, the Seller hereby makes the
representations and warranties contained in Section 3.02 of the
Countrywide Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to each
of the Countrywide Mortgage Loans to and for the benefit of the
Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust Fund.
(ix)
The representations and warranties of National City with respect
to the National City Mortgage Loans in the National City Purchase
and Servicing Agreement, which has been assigned to the Trustee,
were made as of the applicable Bring-Down Date, as specified in the
related Purchase and Servicing Agreement. With respect to the
National City Mortgage Loans and the period from such Bring-Down
Date to and including the Closing Date, the Seller hereby makes the
representations and warranties contained in Section 3.02 of the
National City Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to each
of the National City Mortgage Loans to and for the benefit of the
Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust Fund.
(x)
The representations and warranties of Fifth Third with respect
to the Fifth Third Mortgage Loans in the Fifth Third Purchase and
Servicing Agreement, which have been assigned to the Trustee
hereunder, were made as of the applicable Bring-Down Date.
With respect to the Fifth Third Mortgage Loans and the period
from the applicable Bring-Down Date to and including the Closing
Date, the Seller hereby makes the representations and warranties
contained in Section 7.01 of the Fifth Third Purchase and Servicing
Agreement with respect to each of the Fifth Third Mortgage Loans to
and for the benefit of the Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust
Fund.
(xi)
The representations and warranties of Chevy Chase with respect
to the Chevy Chase Mortgage Loans in the Chevy Chase Purchase and
Servicing Agreement, which have been assigned to the Trustee
hereunder, were made as of the applicable Bring-Down Date.
With respect to the Chevy Chase Mortgage Loans and the period
from the applicable Bring-Down Date to and including the Closing
Date, the Seller hereby makes the representations and warranties
contained in Section 3.02 of the Chevy Chase Purchase and Servicing
Agreement with respect to each of the Chevy Chase Mortgage Loans to
and for the benefit of the Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust
Fund.
(xii)
The representations and warranties of Johnson Bank with respect
to the Johnson Bank Mortgage Loans in the Johnson Bank Sale and
Servicing Agreement, which have been assigned to the Trustee
hereunder, were made as of the applicable Bring-Down Date.
With respect to the Johnson Bank Mortgage Loans and the
period from the applicable Bring-Down Date to and including the
Closing Date, the Seller hereby makes the representations and
warranties contained in Sections 7.01 of the Johnson Bank Sale and
Servicing Agreement with respect to each of the Johnson Bank
Mortgage Loans to and for the benefit of the Depositor, the Trustee
and the Trust Fund.
(xiii)
The representations and warranties of Indymac with respect to
the Indymac Mortgage Loans in the Indymac Purchase and Servicing
Agreement, which has been assigned to the Trustee, were made as of
the applicable Bring-Down Date, as specified in the Indymac
Purchase and Servicing Agreement. With respect to the Indymac
Mortgage Loans and the period from such Bring-Down Date to and
including the Closing Date, the Seller hereby makes the
representations and warranties contained in Section 7.01 of the
Indymac Purchase and Servicing Agreement with respect to each of
the Indymac Mortgage Loans to and for the benefit of the Depositor,
the Trustee and the Trust Fund.
(xiv)
The representations and warranties of WMMSC with respect to the
WMMSC in the WMMSC Purchase and Servicing Agreement, which has been
assigned to the Trustee, were made as of the applicable Bring-Down
Date, as specified in the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement.
With respect to the WMMSC Mortgage Loans and the period from
such Bring-Down Date to and including the Closing Date, the Seller
hereby makes the representations and warranties contained in
Section 3.2 of the WMMSC Purchase and Servicing Agreement with
respect to each of the WMMSC Mortgage Loans to and for the benefit
of the Depositor, the Trustee and the Trust Fund.
(xv)
The Seller hereby represents and warrants that, as of the
Closing Date, (i) no Mortgage Loan is subject to the Home Ownership
and Equity Protection Act of 1994 or any applicable, similar
federal, state or local statutes or regulations related to "high
cost" mortgage loans or "predatory," "high cost," "threshold" or
"covered" lending (as such terms are defined in the applicable
statute or regulation); (ii) no Mortgage Loan is (w) a "High-Cost
Home Loan" as defined in the New Jersey Home Ownership Act
effective November 27, 2003, (x) a "High-Cost Home Loan" as defined
in the New Mexico Home Loan Protection Act effective January 1,
2004, (y) a "High Cost Loan" or "Covered Loan" (as such terms are
defined in the current S&P’s LEVELS® Glossary), or
(z) governed by the Georgia Fair Lending Act, if such Mortgage Loan
was originated on or after October 1, 2002 through March 6, 2003,
(iii) each Mortgage Loan at origination complied in all material
respects with applicable local, state and federal laws, including,
but not limited to, applicable anti-predatory and abusive lending
laws, and (iv) each Mortgage Loan is a "qualified mortgage" within
the meaning of 860G(a)(3) of the Code.
(xvi)
The Seller agrees to comply with the provisions of Section 2.05
in respect of a breach of any of such representations and
warranties.
SECTION 2.06
Grant Clause.
(a)
It is intended that the conveyance of the Depositor’s
right, title and interest in and to property constituting the Trust
Fund pursuant to this Agreement shall constitute, and shall be
construed as, a sale of such property and not a grant of a security
interest to secure a loan. However, if such conveyance is
deemed to be in respect of a loan, it is intended that: (1) the
rights and obligations of the parties shall be established pursuant
to the terms of this Agreement; (2) the Depositor hereby grants to
the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Certificates a
first priority security interest in all of the Depositor’s
right, title and interest in, to and under, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, the Trust Fund and all proceeds of any and all
property constituting the Trust Fund to secure payment of the
Certificates; and (3) this Agreement shall constitute a security
agreement under applicable law. If such conveyance is deemed
to be in respect of a loan and the trust created by this Agreement
terminates prior to the satisfaction of the claims of any Person
holding any Certificate, the security interest created hereby shall
continue in full force and effect and the Trustee shall be deemed
to be the collateral agent for the benefit of such Person, and all
proceeds shall be distributed as herein provided.
(b)
The Depositor shall, to the extent consistent with this
Agreement, take such reasonable actions as may be necessary to
ensure that, if this Agreement were deemed to create a security
interest in the Mortgage Loans and the other property described
above, such security interest would be deemed to be a perfected
security interest of first priority under applicable law and will
be maintained as such throughout the term of this Agreement.
The Depositor will, at its own expense, make all initial
filings on or about the Closing Date and shall forward a copy of
such filing or filings to the Trustee. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the Depositor shall prepare and
forward for filing, or shall cause to be forwarded for filing, at
the expense of the Depositor, all filings necessary to maintain the
effectiveness of any original filings necessary under the relevant
UCC to perfect the Trustee’s security interest in or lien on
the Mortgage Loans, including without limitation (x) continuation
statements, and (y) such other statements as may be occasioned by
(1) any change of name of an Originator, the Depositor or the
Trustee, (2) any change of location of the place of business or the
chief executive office of the Seller or the Depositor, (3) any
transfer of any interest of an Originator or the Depositor in any
Mortgage Loan or (4) any change under the relevant UCC or other
applicable laws. Neither the Originators nor the Depositor
shall organize under the law of any jurisdiction other than the
State under which each is organized as of the Closing Date (whether
changing its jurisdiction of organization or organizing under an
additional jurisdiction) without giving 30 days prior written
notice of such action to its immediate and intermediate transferee,
including the Trustee. Before effecting such change, any
Originator or the Depositor proposing to change its jurisdiction of
organization shall prepare and file in the appropriate filing
office any financing statements or other statements necessary to
continue the perfection of the interests of its immediate and
mediate transferees, including the Trustee, in the Mortgage Loans.
In connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, each of the Originators and the Depositor authorizes its
immediate or mediate transferee to file in any filing office any
initial financing statements, any amendments to financing
statements, any continuation statements, or any other statements or
filings described in this paragraph (b), it being understood that
such immediate or mediate transferees are under no obligation to
make such filings.
ARTICLE III
THE CERTIFICATES
SECTION 3.01
The Certificates.
(a)
The Certificates, other than the Uncertificated REMIC Interests,
shall be issuable in registered form only and shall be securities
governed by Article 8 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code.
The Uncertificated REMIC Interests and the Uncertificated
Interests shall be issuable as uncertificated securities in
registered form only and shall be securities governed by Article 8
of the New York Uniform Commercial Code. The Book-Entry
Certificates will be evidenced by one or more certificates,
beneficial ownership of which will be held in the dollar
denominations in Certificate Principal Amount, or Notional Amount,
as applicable, or in the Percentage Interests, specified herein.
Each Class of Book-Entry Certificates and Uncertificated
REMIC Interests will be issued in the minimum denominations in
Certificate Principal Amount (or Notional Amount) specified in the
Preliminary Statement hereto and in integral multiples of $1 in
excess thereof. Each Class of Definitive Certificates, other
than the Residual Certificates, shall be issued in definitive,
fully registered form in the minimum denominations in Certificate
Principal Amount specified in the Preliminary Statement hereto and
in integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof (except for one Class
B-6 Certificate which may be issued in integral multiples of
$0.01). The Class A-R and Class P Certificates shall be
issued as single Certificates and maintained in definitive, fully
registered form in a denomination equal to 100% of the Percentage
Interest of each such Class. Each Uncertificated Interest
shall be maintained in fully registered form.
(b)
The Certificates shall be executed by manual or facsimile
signature on behalf of the Trustee by an authorized officer of the
Trustee or of the Securities Administrator on its behalf.
Each Certificate shall, on original issue, be authenticated
by the Authenticating Agent upon the written order of the Depositor
upon receipt by the Trustee or the applicable Custodian on behalf
of the Trustee of the Trustee Mortgage Files described in Section
2.01. No Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under
this Agreement, or be valid for any purpose, unless there appears
on such Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially
in the form provided for herein, executed by an authorized officer
of the Authenticating Agent, by manual signature, and such
certification upon any Certificate shall be conclusive evidence,
and the only evidence, that such Certificate has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall
be dated the date of their authentication. At any time and
from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Agreement, the Depositor may deliver Certificates executed by the
Trustee or the Securities Administrator on behalf of the Trustee to
the Authenticating Agent for authentication and the Authenticating
Agent shall authenticate and deliver such Certificates as in this
Agreement provided and not otherwise.
SECTION 3.02
Registration.
The Securities Administrator is hereby appointed, and the
Securities Administrator hereby accepts its appointment as, initial
Certificate Registrar in respect of the Certificates and shall
maintain books for the registration and for the transfer of
Certificates and the Uncertificated Interests (the "Certificate
Register"). The Trustee may appoint a bank or trust company
to act as successor Certificate Registrar. A registration
book shall be maintained for the Certificates and the
Uncertificated Interests collectively. The Certificate
Registrar may resign or be discharged or removed and a new
successor may be appointed in accordance with the procedures and
requirements set forth in Sections 6.06 and 6.07 hereof with
respect to the resignation, discharge or removal of the Securities
Administrator and the appointment of a successor Securities
Administrator. The Certificate Registrar may appoint, by a
written instrument delivered to the Holders and the Master
Servicer, any bank or trust company to act as co-registrar under
such conditions as the Certificate Registrar may prescribe;
provided, however , that the Certificate Registrar shall not
be relieved of any of its duties or responsibilities hereunder by
reason of such appointment. The Certificate Register in
respect of the Uncertificated Interests shall contain a statement
that transfers of an Uncertificated Interest to a Disqualified
Organization are prohibited as provided in this Agreement.
SECTION 3.03
Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.
(a)
A Definitive Certificate (other than Book-Entry Certificates
which shall be subject to Section 3.09 hereof) may be transferred
by the Holder thereof only upon presentation and surrender of such
Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar duly
endorsed or accompanied by an assignment duly executed by such
Holder or his duly authorized attorney in such form as shall be
satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar. Upon the transfer
of any Definitive Certificate in accordance with the preceding
sentence, the Trustee or the Securities Administrator on behalf of
the Trustee shall execute, and the Authenticating Agent shall
authenticate and deliver to the transferee, one or more new
Certificates of the same Class and evidencing, in the aggregate,
the same aggregate Certificate Principal Amount (or Notional
Amount) as the Certificate being transferred. An
Uncertificated Interest or Uncertificated REMIC Interest may be
transferred by the Holder thereof upon written notice to the
Certificate Registrar, satisfaction of the other conditions set
forth in this Section 3.03 and, with respect to the
Uncertificated REMIC Interests, the consent of the Depositor.
No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for
any registration of transfer of Certificates, but the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
registration of transfer of Certificates.
(b)
A Definitive Certificate (other than Book-Entry Certificates
which shall be subject to Section 3.09 hereof) may be exchanged by
the Holder thereof for any number of new Certificates of the same
Class, in authorized denominations, representing in the aggregate
the same Certificate Principal Amount (or Notional Amount) as the
Certificate surrendered, upon surrender of the Certificate to be
exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar duly endorsed
or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer duly executed by
such Holder or his duly authorized attorney in such form as is
satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar. Definitive
Certificates delivered upon any such exchange will evidence the
same obligations, and will be entitled to the same rights and
privileges, as the Certificates surrendered. No service
charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any exchange of
Certificates, but the Certificate Registrar may require payment of
a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may
be imposed in connection with any exchange of Certificates.
Whenever any Definitive Certificates are so surrendered for
exchange, the Trustee, or the Securities Administrator on behalf of
the Trustee, shall execute, and the Authenticating Agent shall
authenticate, date and deliver the Certificates which the
Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
(c)
By acceptance of a Restricted Certificate, whether upon original
issuance or subsequent transfer, each Holder of such a Certificate
acknowledges the restrictions on the transfer of such Certificate
set forth thereon and agrees that it will transfer such a
Certificate only as provided herein.
The following restrictions shall apply with respect to the
transfer and registration of transfer of a Restricted
Certificate:
(i)
The Certificate Registrar shall register the transfer of a
Restricted Certificate if the requested transfer is (x) to the
Depositor or an affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 under the Act) of
the Depositor or (y) being made to a "qualified institutional
buyer" (a "QIB") as defined in Rule 144A under the Act by a
transferor that has provided the Certificate Registrar with a
certificate in the form of Exhibit H hereto; and
(ii)
The Certificate Registrar shall register the transfer of a
Restricted Certificate if the requested transfer is being made to
an "accredited investor" under Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7)
under the Act, or to any Person all of the equity owners in which
are such accredited investors, by a transferor who furnishes to the
Certificate Registrar a letter of the transferee substantially in
the form of Exhibit I hereto.
(d)
No transfer of an ERISA-Restricted Certificate in the form of a
Definitive Certificate or that is an Uncertificated Interest shall
be made to any Person or shall be effective unless the Certificate
Registrar, on behalf of the Trustee, has received (A) a certificate
substantially in the form of Exhibit J hereto (or Exhibit B, in the
case of a Residual Certificate) from such transferee or (B) an
Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar to the effect that the purchase and holding of such a
Certificate will not constitute or result in any nonexempt
prohibited transactions under Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of
the Code and will not subject the Certificate Registrar, the
Trustee, the Master Servicer, any Servicer, the Depositor or the
Securities Administrator to any obligation in addition to those
undertaken in the Agreement; provided, however , that the
Certificate Registrar will not require such certificate or opinion
in the event that, as a result of a change of law or otherwise,
counsel satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar has rendered an
opinion to the effect that the purchase and holding of an
ERISA-Restricted Certificate by an employee benefit plan or other
retirement arrangement subject to Section 406 of ERISA, or Section
4975 of the Code, (collectively, a "Plan") or a Person that is
purchasing or holding such a Certificate with the assets of a Plan
will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under
Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject
the Certificate Registrar, the Trustee, the Master Servicer, the
Depositor, the Securities Administrator or any Servicer to any
obligation in addition to those undertaken in this Agreement.
Each Transferee of an ERISA-Restricted Certificate that is a
Book-Entry Certificate shall be deemed to have made the
representations set forth in Exhibit J. The preparation and
delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above shall
not be an expense of the Trust Fund, the Certificate Registrar, the
Trustee, the Master Servicer, any Servicer the Depositor or the
Securities Administrator.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no opinion or certificate shall
be required for the initial transfer of the ERISA-Restricted
Certificates. The Certificate Registrar shall have no
obligation to monitor transfers of Book-Entry Certificates that are
ERISA-Restricted Certificates and shall have no liability for
transfers of such Certificates in violation of the transfer
restrictions. The Certificate Registrar shall be under no
liability to any Person for any registration of transfer of any
ERISA-Restricted Certificate that is in fact not permitted by this
Section 3.03(d) and none of the Securities Administrator, the
Trustee or the Paying Agent shall have any liability for making any
payments due on such Certificate to the Holder thereof or taking
any other action with respect to such Holder under the provisions
of this Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the
Certificate Registrar in accordance with the foregoing
requirements. The Securities Administrator, on behalf of the
Trustee, shall be entitled, but not obligated, to recover from any
Holder of any ERISA-Restricted Certificate that was in fact a Plan
or a Person acting on behalf of a Plan any payments made on such
ERISA-Restricted Certificate at and after either such time.
Any such payments so recovered by the Securities
Administrator, on behalf of the Trustee, shall be paid and
delivered by the Securities Administrator, on behalf of the
Trustee, to the last preceding Holder of such Certificate that is
not such a Plan or Person acting on behalf of a Plan.
(e)
As a condition of the registration of transfer or exchange of
any Certificate, the Certificate Registrar may require the
certified taxpayer identification number of the owner of the
Certificate and the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith;
provided, however , that the Certificate Registrar shall
have no obligation to require such payment or to determine whether
or not any such tax or charge may be applicable. No service
charge shall be made to the Certificateholder for any registration,
transfer or exchange of a Certificate.
(f)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no
Residual Certificate may be owned, pledged or transferred, directly
or indirectly, by or to (i) a Disqualified Organization or (ii) an
individual, corporation or partnership or other person unless such
person is (A) not a Non-U.S. Person or (B) is a Non-U.S. Person
that holds a Residual Certificate in connection with the conduct of
a trade or business within the United States and has furnished the
transferor and the Certificate Registrar with an effective Internal
Revenue Service Form W 8ECI or successor form at the time and in
the manner required by the Code (any such person who is not covered
by clause (A) or (B) above is referred to herein as a
"Non-permitted Foreign Holder").
Prior to and as a condition of the registration of any transfer,
sale or other disposition of a Residual Certificate, the proposed
transferee shall deliver to the Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar an affidavit in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit B representing and warranting, among other things, that
such transferee is neither a Disqualified Organization, an agent or
nominee acting on behalf of a Disqualified Organization, nor a
Non-permitted Foreign Holder (any such transferee, a "Permitted
Transferee"), and the proposed transferor shall deliver to the
Trustee and the Certificate Registrar an affidavit in substantially
the form attached hereto as Exhibit C. In addition, the
Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may (but shall have no
obligation to) require, prior to and as a condition of any such
transfer, the delivery by the proposed transferee of an Opinion of
Counsel, addressed to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar,
that such proposed transferee or, if the proposed transferee is an
agent or nominee, the proposed beneficial owner, is not a
Disqualified Organization, agent or nominee thereof, or a
Non-permitted Foreign Holder. Notwithstanding the
registration in the Certificate Register of any transfer, sale, or
other disposition of a Residual Certificate to a Disqualified
Organization, an agent or nominee thereof, or Non-permitted Foreign
Holder, such registration shall be deemed to be of no legal force
or effect whatsoever and such Disqualified Organization, agent or
nominee thereof, or Non-permitted Foreign Holder shall not be
deemed to be a Certificateholder for any purpose hereunder,
including, but not limited to, the receipt of distributions on such
Residual Certificate. The Depositor, the Certificate
Registrar and the Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person
for any registration or transfer of a Residual Certificate to a
Disqualified Organization, agent or nominee thereof or
Non-permitted Foreign Holder or for the Paying Agent making any
payments due on such Residual Certificate to the Holder thereof or
for taking any other action with respect to such Holder under the
provisions of the Agreement, so long as the transfer was effected
in accordance with this Section 3.03(f), unless the Certificate
Registrar shall have actual knowledge at the time of such transfer
or the time of such payment or other action that the transferee is
a Disqualified Organization, or an agent or nominee thereof, or
Non-permitted Foreign Holder. The Certificate Registrar shall
be entitled to recover from any Holder of a Residual Certificate
that wa
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