Lawsuit attacks cumbersome, confusing mortgage registry.

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'How can a house be foreclosed if the mortgage holder can't be proved in court? How can you sell your house if there is a legal question about the title?

Multiply that problem several million times across the country, and you can see why the mortgage system is in such a mess.

That's the heart of Beau Biden's lawsuit against the Mortgage Electronic Registration System, or MERS, as it is known.

Biden claims in a Chancery Court suit Thursday that MERS has been systematically deceiving Delawareans.'

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