Texas Code § 159.001

DEFINITIONS
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Sec. 159.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Commissioner" means the savings and mortgage lending commissioner.
(2) "Finance commission" means the Finance Commission of Texas.
(3) "Residential mortgage loan" has the meaning assigned by Section 180.002 .
(4) "Residential real estate" has the meaning assigned by Section 180.002 .
(5) "Wrap borrower" means a person obligated to pay a wrap mortgage loan.
(6) "Wrap lender" means:
(A) a person who makes a wrap mortgage loan; or
(B) an owner of residential real estate who contracts with another person to make a wrap mortgage loan to a wrap borrower on the owner's behalf to finance the purchase of the owner's residential real estate.
(7) "Wrap mortgage loan" means a residential mortgage loan:
(A) made to finance the purchase of residential real estate that will continue to be subject to an unreleased lien that:
(i) attached to the residential real estate before the loan was made; and
(ii) secures a debt incurred by a person other than the wrap borrower that was not paid off at the time the loan was made; and
(B) obligating the wrap borrower to the wrap lender for payment of a debt the principal amount of which includes:
(i) the outstanding balance of the debt described by Paragraph (A)(ii); and
(ii) any remaining amount of the purchase price financed by the wrap lender.

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