The Mortgage or Deed of Trust is a legal document in. which the borrower transfers the title to a third party. (trustee) to hold as security for the lender. When the. loan is paid in full the trustee transfers the title back. to the borrower.
Virginia more responsive to the colonists. In July 1619, England created a legislative body to be. selected by the colonists called the House of Burgesses, similar to the British Parliament, that. would meet once annually at Jamestown a meeting of the House of Burgesses was held in. Jamestown, the first such assembly of a self-representative type of government rule in the. Americas.
Although the first session was cut short because of an outbreak of malaria, the House of Burgesses soon became a symbol of representative government. The 22 members of the House of Burgesses were elected by the colony as a whole, or actually men over 17 who also owned land. Royally appointed councillors (of which there were usually six) and governor rounded out the legislature.