FORM 10-Q

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

[X] QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended June 30, 1998

OR
[_] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from ___________ to ___________

Commission file number 0-3658

THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

        Incorporated in California                  95-1068610
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      (State or other jurisdiction of            (I.R.S. Employer
       incorporation or organization)           Identification No.)

114 East Fifth Street, Santa Ana, California        92701-4699
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  (Address of principal executive offices)          (Zip Code)

                               (714) 558-3211
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             (Registrant's telephone number, including area code)


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(Former name, former address and former fiscal year,
if changed since last report)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes [X] No [_]

APPLICABLE ONLY TO ISSUERS INVOLVED IN BANKRUPTCY
PROCEEDINGS DURING THE PRECEDING FIVE YEARS:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed all documents and reports to be filed by Section 12, 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 subsequent to the distribution of securities under a plan confirmed by a court.

Yes [_] No [_]

APPLICABLE ONLY TO CORPORATE ISSUERS:

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer's classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.

$1 par value - 57,287,968 as of August 7, 1998


INFORMATION INCLUDED IN REPORT

Part I: Financial Information

Item 1. Financial Statements
A. Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income
B. Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
C. Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
D. Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Part II: Other Information

Item 5. Other Information

Item 6. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K Items 1-4 have been omitted because they are not applicable with respect to the current reporting period.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(Registrant)

                               /s/  Thomas A. Klemens
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                               Thomas A. Klemens
                               Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
                               (Principal Financial Officer and Duly
                               Authorized to Sign on Behalf of Registrant)


Date:  August 13, 1998

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Part I: Financial Information

Item 1. Financial Statements

THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(Unaudited)

                                                               June 30, 1998      December 31, 1997
                                                               --------------     -----------------
Assets
  Cash and cash equivalents                                    $  297,975,000       $  181,531,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Accounts and accrued income receivable, net                     165,093,000          128,017,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Investments:
    Deposits with savings and loan associations and banks          31,422,000           29,029,000
    Debt securities                                               199,946,000          151,503,000
    Equity securities                                              24,851,000           13,904,000
    Other long-term investments                                    56,508,000           35,047,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
                                                                  312,727,000          229,483,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Loans receivable                                                 68,641,000           63,378,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Property and equipment, at cost                                 422,932,000          323,065,000
  Less- accumulated depreciation                                 (145,554,000)        (122,688,000)
                                                               --------------       --------------
                                                                  277,378,000          200,377,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Title plants and other indexes                                  198,431,000          100,626,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Assets acquired in connection with claim settlements
   (net of valuation reserves of $11,056,000 and $11,135,000)      19,132,000           21,119,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Deferred income taxes                                            19,806,000           31,563,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Goodwill and other intangibles, net                             147,342,000          132,361,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Deferred policy acquisition costs                                26,759,000           25,016,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Other assets                                                     64,998,000           54,673,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
                                                               $1,598,282,000       $1,168,144,000
                                                               ==============       ==============

Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
  Demand deposits                                              $   63,379,000       $   62,475,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Accounts payable and accrued liabilities                        219,554,000          168,133,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Deferred revenue                                                119,706,000          104,124,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Reserve for known and incurred but not reported claims          262,824,000          250,826,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Income taxes payable                                             24,126,000            3,987,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Notes and contracts payable (Note 4)                            145,032,000           41,973,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Minority interests in consolidated subsidiaries                  86,735,000           25,214,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Guaranteed Preferred Beneficial Interests in Company's
    Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures            100,000,000          100,000,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
  Stockholders' equity:
    Preferred stock, $1 par value
      Authorized - 500,000 shares; outstanding - none
    Common stock, $1 par value (Note 5)
      Authorized - 108,000,000 shares
      Outstanding - 56,820,000 and 52,122,000 shares               56,820,000           52,122,000
  Additional paid-in capital (Note 5)                              84,116,000            9,205,000
  Retained earnings                                               429,278,000          344,645,000
  Net unrealized gain on securities                                 6,712,000            5,440,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
                                                                  576,926,000          411,412,000
                                                               --------------       --------------
                                                               $1,598,282,000       $1,168,144,000
                                                               ==============       ==============

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THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income
(Unaudited)

                                                For the Three Months Ended            For the Six Months Ended
                                                        June 30                              June 30
                                               -----------------------------       -----------------------------
                                                    1998            1997                1998            1997
                                               -------------    ------------       --------------   ------------
Revenues
  Operating revenues                            $695,463,000    $443,447,000       $1,257,077,000   $819,872,000
  Investment and other income                      8,820,000       6,927,000           52,255,000     13,379,000
                                                ------------    ------------       --------------   ------------
                                                 704,283,000     450,374,000        1,309,332,000    833,251,000
                                                ------------    ------------       --------------   ------------
Expenses
  Salaries and other personnel costs             219,067,000     157,812,000          418,189,000    298,599,000
  Premiums retained by agents                    194,982,000     128,962,000          335,027,000    251,155,000
  Other operating expenses                       149,336,000      93,689,000          284,336,000    175,649,000
  Provision for title losses and other claims     32,203,000      22,457,000           59,531,000     41,049,000
  Depreciation and amortization                   14,597,000       9,156,000           28,303,000     18,141,000
  Premium taxes                                    5,231,000       4,561,000            9,385,000      8,722,000
  Interest                                         5,443,000       2,538,000            9,019,000      3,660,000
                                                ------------    ------------       --------------   ------------
                                                 620,859,000     419,175,000        1,143,790,000    796,975,000
                                               -------------    ------------       --------------   ------------

Income before income taxes and
  minority interests                              83,424,000      31,199,000          165,542,000     36,276,000
Income taxes                                      29,900,000      11,700,000           59,300,000     13,600,000
                                               -------------    ------------       --------------   ------------
Income before minority interests                  53,524,000      19,499,000          106,242,000     22,676,000
Minority interests                                 8,418,000         983,000           16,171,000      1,294,000
                                               -------------    ------------       --------------   ------------
Net income                                     $  45,106,000    $ 18,516,000       $   90,071,000   $ 21,382,000
                                               =============    ============       ==============   ============

Net income per share (Note 5):
    Basic                                             $ 0.83          $  .35               $ 1.69         $  .41
                                               =============    ============       ==============   ============
    Diluted                                           $ 0.80          $  .35               $ 1.63         $  .40
                                               =============    ============       ==============   ============

Cash dividends per share (Note 5)                     $  .05          $  .04               $  .10         $  .08
                                               =============    ============       ==============   ============

Weighted average number of shares (Note 5):
    Basic                                         54,297,000      52,179,000           53,346,000     52,116,000
                                               =============    ============       ==============   ============
    Diluted                                       56,292,000      52,968,000           55,254,000     53,088,000
                                               =============    ============       ==============   ============

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THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited)

                                                                        For the Six Months Ended
                                                                                 June 30
                                                                       ----------------------------
                                                                           1998             1997
                                                                       -------------    ------------
Cash flows from operating activities:
  Net income                                                           $  90,071,000    $ 21,382,000
  Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash
    provided by operating activities-
      Provision for title losses and other claims                         59,531,000      41,049,000
      Depreciation and amortization                                       28,303,000      18,141,000
      Minority interests in net income                                    16,171,000       1,294,000
      Investment gain (Note 2)                                           (32,449,000)
      Other, net                                                            (496,000)       (434,000)
  Changes in assets and liabilities excluding effects of
    company acquisitions and noncash transactions-
      Claims paid, including assets acquired, net of recoveries          (45,653,000)    (36,775,000)
      Net change in income tax accounts                                   27,927,000       7,677,000
      Increase in accounts and accrued income receivable                 (20,486,000)     (4,405,000)
      Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and accrued liabilities     37,011,000     (12,503,000)
      Increase (decrease) in deferred revenue                              5,399,000      (1,459,000)
      Other, net                                                          (4,137,000)    (10,251,000)
                                                                       -------------    ------------
  Cash provided by operating activities                                  161,192,000      23,716,000
                                                                       -------------    ------------
Cash flows from investing activities:
  Net cash effect of company acquisitions                                  5,031,000     (37,977,000)
  Net increase in deposits with banks                                     (2,197,000)     (8,201,000)
  Net increase in loans receivable                                        (5,263,000)     (5,525,000)
  Purchases of debt and equity securities                                (87,840,000)    (40,963,000)
  Proceeds from sales of debt and equity securities                       19,815,000      21,691,000
  Proceeds from maturities of debt securities                             10,592,000      10,427,000
  Net decrease in other investments                                          271,000         366,000
  Capital expenditures                                                   (74,780,000)    (33,265,000)
  Proceeds from sale of property and equipment                               254,000         569,000
                                                                       -------------    ------------
  Cash used for investing activities                                    (134,117,000)    (92,878,000)
                                                                       -------------    ------------
Cash flows from financing activities:
  Net change in demand deposits                                              904,000       4,847,000
  Proceeds from issuance of junior subordinated
    deferrable interest debentures                                                       100,000,000
  Proceeds from issuance of debt                                          99,456,000
  Repayment of debt                                                       (9,519,000)    (37,337,000)
  Purchase of Company shares                                                              (2,245,000)
  Proceeds from exercise of stock options                                  1,994,000         282,000
  Proceeds from issuance of stock to employee savings plan                 8,531,000
  Distributions to minority shareholders                                  (6,559,000)       (219,000)
  Cash dividends                                                          (5,438,000)     (4,176,000)
                                                                       -------------    ------------
  Cash provided by financing activities                                   89,369,000      61,152,000
                                                                       -------------    ------------
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents                     116,444,000      (8,010,000)
Cash and cash equivalents- Beginning of year                             181,531,000     173,439,000
                                                                       -------------    ------------
                         - End of first half                           $ 297,975,000    $165,429,000
                                                                       =============    ============

Supplemental information:
  Cash paid during the first half for:
    Interest                                                           $   6,267,000    $  2,088,000
    Premium taxes                                                      $  10,421,000    $ 10,243,000
    Income taxes                                                       $  36,302,000    $  7,197,000
  Noncash investing and financing activities:
    Shares issued for stock bonus plan                                 $   2,637,000    $  2,185,000
    Liabilities incurred in connection with company acquisitions       $  89,779,000    $ 40,184,000
    Net unrealized gain on securities                                  $   1,272,000    $    701,000
    Company acquisitions in exchange for common stock                  $  66,447,000

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THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
(Unaudited)

Note 1 - Basis of Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

The condensed consolidated financial information included in this report has been prepared in conformity with the accounting principles and practices reflected in the consolidated financial statements included in the annual report filed with the Commission for the preceding calendar year. All adjustments are of a normal recurring nature and are, in the opinion of management, necessary to a fair statement of the consolidated results for the interim periods. Certain 1997 interim amounts have been reclassified to conform with the current period presentation. This report should be read in conjunction with the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997.

Note 2 - Business Combinations

On January 1, 1998, the Company formed a limited liability corporation (LLC) with Experian Group (Experian). The purpose of the LLC is to combine certain operations of the Company's subsidiary, First American Real Estate Information Services, Inc., with Experian's Real Estate Solutions division (RES). The LLC is 80% owned by the Company and 20% owned by Experian. RES is a supplier of core real estate data, providing, among other things, property valuation information, title and tax information and imaged title documents. This business combination has been accounted for under the purchase method of accounting, and accordingly, the purchase price was allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on the estimated fair values at January 1, 1998. In addition, as a result of the transaction, the Company recognized an investment gain of $32.4 million in the first quarter 1998. The operating results of the LLC are included in the Company's consolidated financial statements commencing January 1, 1998.

On June 3, 1998, the Company acquired Data Tree Corporation, a California company in the business of providing database management and document imaging systems to county recorders, governmental agencies and the title industry. This acquisition has been accounted for by the purchase method of accounting and accordingly, the assets acquired and liabilities assumed have been recorded at their estimated fair value at the date of acquisition.

Note 3 - Other Comprehensive Income

On January 1, 1998, the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 130, "Reporting Comprehensive Income." This statement requires the reporting of comprehensive income in addition to net income. Comprehensive income is a more inclusive financial reporting methodology that includes disclosure of certain financial information that historically has not been recognized in the calculation of net income. Currently, the only comprehensive income item that affects the Company is unrealized gains and losses on debt and equity securities.

The Company reported a net unrealized gain of $1.3 million and $0.7 million for the six-month period ended June 30, 1998 and 1997, respectively. Accordingly, comprehensive income for the two respective periods was $91.4 million and $22.1 million.

Note 4 - Senior Debentures

On April 7, 1998, the Company issued and sold $100.0 million of 7.55% senior debentures, due April 1, 2028. The 30-year bonds were issued at 99.456% of the principal amount. The Company has used a portion of the net proceeds from the sale of these 30-year securities to repay certain debt obligations and purchase land for the Company's new corporate facilities. The remaining proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.

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Note 5 - Stock Split

On July 17, 1998, the Company distributed, to shareholders of record on July 7, 1998, a 3-for-1 common stock split in the form of a 200% stock dividend. This resulted in an increase of 37,895,936 common shares outstanding with the par value of these additional shares being capitalized by a transfer from additional paid-in-capital to the common stock account. In order to effect the stock split, the Company increased its authorized shares from 36,000,000 to 108,000,000. All references in the consolidated financial statements with regards to common stock, additional paid-in-capital, number of shares of common stock and per share amounts have been restated to reflect the stock split.

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Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Any statements in this document looking forward in time involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the following risks: the effect of interest rate fluctuations; changes in the performance of the real estate markets; the effect of changing economic conditions; the demand for and the acceptance of the Company's products; and contingencies associated with the Year 2000 issue.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Three and six months ended June 30:

OVERVIEW

Low mortgage interest rates and an improving national real estate economy resulted in relatively strong revenues for the first half of 1997. However, profits for the first half of 1997 were adversely affected by the need for title operations to increase staffing levels in order to service the relatively high number of title orders opened during the period. Furthermore, the Company's information services operations experienced higher overhead during the first half of 1997 as they integrated acquisitions and transitioned new accounts to their systems. Favorable real estate conditions continued throughout 1997 and, coupled with market share increases in all of the Company's primary business segments, culminated in the best year overall in the Company's history. Starting in the fourth quarter 1997 and into 1998, lower mortgage interest rates and higher consumer confidence lead to record-setting residential resale activity as well as a substantial increase in refinance transactions nationwide. This, coupled with the particularly strong California real estate market, contributed to record-setting revenues and net income for the second quarter and first half of 1998. Net income and net income per diluted share for the second quarter 1998 was $45.1 million and $0.80, respectively. Net income and net income per diluted share for the first half of 1998 (excluding a previously announced first quarter investment gain of $19.6 million on an after-tax basis, or $0.36 per diluted share, relating to the joint venture with Experian) was $70.4 million and $1.27 per diluted share, respectively.

OPERATING REVENUES

Set forth below is a summary of operating revenues for each of the Company's segments.

                                   Three Months Ended                       Six Months Ended
                                        June 30                                  June 30
                            -------------------------------------     ----------------------------------
                                         ($000)                                  ($000)
                               1998        %        1997      %          1998      %       1997      %
                            ---------    ----     --------   ----     ----------   ----    --------  ---
Title Insurance:
  Direct operations          $274,827      40     $186,876     42     $  500,546     40    $334,550   41
  Agency operations           243,519      35      160,660     36        420,055     33     312,766   38
                            ---------    ----     --------   ----     ----------   ----    --------  ---
                              518,346      75      347,536     78        920,601     73     647,316   79
Real Estate Information       156,495      22       79,656     18        296,855     24     141,703   17
Home Warranty                  14,274       2       11,214      3         27,447      2      21,282    3
Trust and Banking               6,348       1        5,041      1         12,174      1       9,571    1
                            ---------    ----     --------   ----     ----------   ----    --------  ---
  Total                      $695,463     100     $443,447    100     $1,257,077    100    $819,872  100
                            ---------    ----     --------   ----     ----------   ----    --------  ---

Title Insurance. Operating revenues from direct title operations increased 47.1% and 49.6% for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, when compared with the same periods of the prior year. These increases were primarily attributable to an increase in the number of title orders closed by the Company's direct operations, as well as an increase in the average revenues per order closed. The Company's direct operations closed 302,000 and 562,600 title orders during the three and six months ended June 30,1998, respectively, representing increases of 31.7% and 37.0% when compared with the same periods of the prior year. These increases were due in large part to the factors mentioned above, primarily the resurgence of real estate activity in California, a state heavily concentrated with direct operations, as well as increases in the Company's national market share. The average revenues per order closed were $910 and $890 for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, increases of 11.7% and 9.3% when compared with $815 and $814 for the same periods of the prior year.

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Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (continued)

These increases were primarily due to appreciating residential real estate values. Operating revenues from agency operations increased 51.6% and 34.3% for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, when compared with the same periods of the prior year. These increases were primarily due to the same factors affecting direct operations mentioned above, compounded by the inherent delay in reporting by agents.

Real Estate Information. Real estate information operating revenues increased 96.5% and 109.5% for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, when compared with the same periods of the prior year. These increases were primarily attributable to the same economic factors affecting title insurance mentioned above, as well as $35.9 million and $74.1 million of operating revenues contributed by new acquisitions for the respective periods.

Home Warranty. Home warranty operating revenues increased 27.3% and 29.0% for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, when compared with the same periods of the prior year. These increases were primarily attributable to improvements in the residential resale markets in which this business segment operates.

INVESTMENT AND OTHER INCOME

Investment and other income totaled $8.8 million and $52.3 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, increases of $1.9 million and $38.9 million when compared with the same periods of the prior year. The increase for the current three-month period was primarily due to a 28.4% increase in the average investment portfolio balance due in large part to the investment of a portion of the proceeds from the Company's $100 million senior debentures (see Note 4 to the condensed consolidated financial statements). The increase for the current six-month period was primarily attributable to an investment gain of $32.4 million recognized in the first quarter relating to the joint venture agreement with Experian.

TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES

Title Insurance. Salaries and other personnel costs were $160.2 million and $305.1 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, increases of 33.1% and 33.2% when compared with the same periods of the prior year. These increases were primarily due to costs incurred servicing the record-setting number of transactions processed during the current three and six month periods.

Agents retained $195.0 million and $335.0 million of title premiums generated by agency operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, which compares with $129.0 million and $251.2 million for the same periods of the prior year. The percentage of title premiums retained by agents ranged from 79.8% to 80.3% due to regional variances (i.e., the agency share varies from region to region and thus the geographical mix of agency revenues causes this variation).

Other operating expenses were $77.9 million and $145.8 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, increases of 35.6% and 32.8% when compared with the same periods of the prior year. These increases were primarily attributable to the impact of certain incremental costs associated with processing the record-setting title order volume during the respective periods.

The provision for title losses as a percentage of title insurance operating revenues was 3.9% for the six months ended June 30, 1998 and 1997, respectively. This constant loss percentage was due to stable claims experience.

Premium taxes for title insurance were $8.9 million and $8.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 1998 and 1997, respectively. Expressed as a percentage of title insurance operating revenues, premium taxes were 1.0% for the six months ended June 30, 1998 and 1.3% for the same period of the prior year. The decrease in percentage was primarily due to changes in the Company's non-title insurance subsidiaries' contribution to revenues as well as changes in the geographical mix of title insurance operating revenues.

Real Estate Information. Real estate information personnel and other operating expenses were $112.2 million and $218.0 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, increases of 82.6% and 95.0% when compared with the same periods of the prior year. These increases were primarily due to costs incurred servicing the increased business volume, $29.8 million and $63.0 million of costs associated with new acquisitions, and higher overhead costs attributable to the integration of the new acquisitions and transitioning new accounts to their systems.

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Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (continued)

Home Warranty. Home warranty personnel and other operating expenses were $4.0 million and $8.1 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, respectively, increases of 24.4% and 27.0% when compared with the same periods of the prior year. These increases were primarily attributable to costs incurred servicing the increased business volume and expansion into new territories. The provision for home warranty losses expressed as a percentage of home warranty operating revenues was 53.0% and 56.9% for the six months ended June 30, 1998 and 1997, respectively. The decrease in loss ratio was primarily due to a decrease in the average number of claims per contract.

INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES AND MINORITY INTERESTS

Set forth below is a summary of income before income taxes and minority interests for each of the Company's segments.

                                      Three Months Ended                   Six Months Ended
                                           June 30                              June 30
                             ----------------------------------    ------------------------------
                                           ($000)                               ($000)
                               1998        %     1997        %       1998      %      1997      %
                             --------    ---   -------      ---    --------   ---   --------  ---
Title Insurance              $ 56,395     60   $21,438       56    $ 86,656    57   $ 21,381   44
Real Estate Information        32,433     34    13,144       35      55,968    37     20,967   43
Home Warranty                   3,311      4     2,444        6       6,337     4      4,080    9
Trust and Banking               2,022      2       937        3       3,610     2      1,852    4
                             --------    ---   -------      ---    --------   ---   --------
  Total before corporate       94,161    100    37,963      100     152,571   100     48,280  100
                                         ===                ===               ===             ===
Corporate                     (10,737)          (6,764)              12,971          (12,004)
                             --------          -------             --------         --------
  Total                      $ 83,424          $31,199             $165,542         $ 36,276
                             ========          =======             ========         ========

In general, the title insurance business is a lower profit margin business when compared to the Company's other segments. The lower profit margins reflect the high cost of producing title evidence whereas the corresponding revenues are subject to regulatory and competitive pricing restraints. Due to this relatively high proportion of fixed costs, title insurance profit margins generally improve as closed order volumes increase. In addition, title insurance profit margins are affected by the composition (residential or commercial) and type (resale, refinancing or new construction) of real estate activity. Profit margins from resale and new construction transactions are generally higher than from refinancing transactions because in many states there are premium discounts on, and cancellation rates are higher for, refinance transactions. Title insurance profit margins are also affected by the percentage of operating revenues generated by agency operations. Profit margins from direct operations are generally higher than from agency operations due primarily to the large portion of the premium that is retained by the agent. Real estate information pretax profits are generally unaffected by the type of real estate activity but increase as the volume of residential real estate loan transactions increase. Included in Corporate for the six months ended June 30, 1998 was an investment gain of $32.4 million (see Note 2 to the condensed consolidated financial statements).

INCOME TAXES

The effective income tax rate was 35.8% for the six months ended June 30, 1998, and 37.5% for the same period of the prior year. The decrease in effective rate was primarily attributable to changes in the ratio of permanent differences to income before income taxes.

MINORITY INTERESTS

Minority interest expense was $8.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 1998, an increase of $7.4 million when compared with the same period of the prior year. Minority interest expense was $16.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 1998, an increase of $14.9 million when compared with the same period of the prior year. These increases were primarily attributable to the strong operating results of the Company's joint venture with Experian.

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Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (continued)

NET INCOME

Net income for the three and six months ended June 30, 1998, was $45.1 million, or $0.80 per diluted share, and $90.1 million, or $1.63 per diluted share, respectively. Net income for the six months ended June 30, 1998, included an investment gain of $19.6 million on an after-tax basis, or $0.36 per diluted share, relating to the joint venture with Experian. Net income for the three and six months ended June 30, 1997, was $18.5 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, and $21.4 million, or $0.40 per diluted share, respectively.

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

Total cash and cash equivalents increased $116.4 million and decreased $8.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 1998 and 1997, respectively. The increase for the current year period was primarily attributable to cash provided by operating activities and proceeds from the issuance and sale of senior debentures, offset in part by capital expenditures, net purchases of debt and equity securities and the repayment of debt. The decrease for the prior year period was primarily due to the cash effect of company acquisitions, the net purchases of debt and equity securities, capital expenditures and the repayment of debt, offset in part by the proceeds from the issuance of junior subordinated debentures.

On April 7, 1998, the Company issued and sold $100.0 million of 7.55% senior debentures, due April 1, 2028. The Company has used a portion of the net proceeds from the sale to repay certain debt obligations and purchase land for the Company's new corporate facilities. The remaining proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.

Notes and contracts payable as a percentage of total capitalization increased to 16.0% at June 30, 1998, from 7.3% at December 31, 1997. This increase was primarily due to the issuance and sale of the $100.0 million senior debentures, offset in part by an increase in total capitalization due primarily to shares issued in connection with company acquisitions, increased minority interests and net income for the period.

The Company's management has initiated a program to evaluate the Year 2000 issue as it relates to its internal computer systems and third party computer systems with which the Company interacts. The Company is currently completing the inventory and assessment phase of the program, with the remaining phases (renovation, testing and implementation) expected to be completed by midyear 1999. The Company has incurred to date approximately $3.1 million of costs related to this issue. The majority of the costs are expected to be incurred in the final three phases of the program. These costs, which include internal staff costs as well as consulting and other expenses, are being expensed as incurred. At this time, the Company is unable to reasonably estimate the total costs for the Year 2000 issue.

Management believes that all of its anticipated cash requirements for the immediate future will be met from internally generated funds and from the remaining proceeds of the senior debentures.

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Part II: Other Information

Item 5. Other Information.

Pursuant to newly adopted rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, any shareholder who intends to present a proposal at the Company's next Annual Meeting of Shareholders without requesting the Company to include such proposal in the Company's proxy statement should be aware that he must notify the Company not later than February 9, 1999 of his intention to present the proposal. Otherwise, the Company may exercise discretionary voting with respect to such shareholder proposal pursuant to authority conferred on the Company by proxies to be solicited by the Board of Directors of the Company and delivered to the Company in connection with the meeting.

Item 6. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K.

(a) Exhibits

(3) Restated Articles of Incorporation of The First American Financial Corporation (the "Company") dated July 14, 1998, incorporated by reference herein from Exhibit 3.1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-4 dated July 28, 1998.

(4) Senior Indenture dated as of April 7, 1998, between The First American Financial Corporation and Wilmington Trust Company as Trustee.

(27) Financial Data Schedule.

(b) Reports on Form 8-K

During the quarterly period covered by this report, the Company filed reports on Form 8-K dated April 7, 1998 (reporting on the Company's issuance of $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7.55% senior debentures due 2028) and June 26, 1998 (reporting on, among other matters, the declaration of a "3 for 1" stock and amendment of the Company's articles of incorporation to increase the authorized number of Common shares in connection therewith.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

                                                                  Sequentially
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Exhibit No.     Description                                       Numbered Page
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(3)             Restated Articles of Incorporation of The First
                American Financial Corporation (the "Company"),
                incorporated by reference herein from Exhibit
                3.1 of the Company's Registration Statement on
                Form S-4 dated July 28, 1998

(4)             Senior Indenture dated as of April 7, 1998,
                between The First American Financial Corporation
                and Wilmington Trust Company as Trustee

(27)            Financial Data Schedule

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EXHIBIT 4

Conformed Copy

SENIOR INDENTURE

Dated as of April 7, 1998


Between

THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

and

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

as Trustee



THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Reconciliation and tie between the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (including cross-references to provisions of Sections 310 to and including 317) and the Senior Indenture, dated as of April 7, 1998.

Trust Indenture                                                     Indenture
  Act Section                                                        Section
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(S) 310   (a) (1), (2) and (5).................................   6.9
          (a) (3)..............................................   Not Applicable
          (a) (4)..............................................   Not Applicable
          (b)..................................................   6.8
                                                                  6.10
          (c)..................................................   Not Applicable
(S) 311   (a)..................................................   6.13(a)
          (b)..................................................   6.13(b)
          (b) (2)..............................................   7.3(a) (2)
                                                                  7.3(a) (2)
(S) 312   (a)..................................................   7.1
                                                                  7.2(a)
          (b)..................................................   7.2(b)
          (c)..................................................   7.2(c)
(S) 313   (a)..................................................   7.3(a)
          (b)..................................................   7.3(b)
          (c)..................................................   7.3(a), 7.3(b)
          (d)..................................................   7.3(c)
(S) 314   (a) (1), (2) and (3).................................   7.4
          (a) (4)..............................................   10.5
          (b)..................................................   Not Applicable
          (c) (1)..............................................   1.2
          (c) (2)..............................................   1.2
          (c) (3)..............................................   Not Applicable
          (d)..................................................   Not Applicable
          (e)..................................................   1.2
          (f)..................................................   Not Applicable
(S) 315   (a)..................................................   6.1(a)

Trust Indenture                                                     Indenture
  Act Section                                                        Section
---------------                                                     ---------

          (b)..................................................   6.2
                                                                  7.3(a) (6)
          (c)..................................................   6.1(b)
          (d)..................................................   6.1(c)
          (d) (1)..............................................   6.1(a) (1)
          (d) (2)..............................................   6.1(c) (2)
          (d) (3)..............................................   6.1(c) (3)
          (e)..................................................   5.14
(S) 316   (a)..................................................   1.1
          (a) (1) (A)..........................................   5.12
          (a) (1) (B)..........................................   5.13
          (a) (2)..............................................   Not Applicable
          (b)..................................................   5.8
          (c)..................................................   1.4(f)
(S) 317   (a) (1)..............................................   5.3
          (a) (2)..............................................   5.4
          (b)..................................................   10.3

(S) 318 (a).................................................. 1.7 Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Senior Indenture.

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                                   ARTICLE I

            DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION........   1

Section 1.1    Definitions.................................................   1
Section 1.2    Compliance Certificate and Opinions.........................   9
Section 1.3    Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee.....................  10
Section 1.4    Acts of Holders.............................................  11
Section 1.5    Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company........................  13
Section 1.6    Notice to Holders; Waiver...................................  14
Section 1.7    Conflict with Trust Indenture Act...........................  14
Section 1.8    Effect of Headings and Table of Contents....................  14
Section 1.9    Successors and Assigns......................................  14
Section 1.10   Separability Clause.........................................  14
Section 1.11   Benefits of Indenture.......................................  15
Section 1.12   Governing Law...............................................  15
Section 1.13   Non-Business Days...........................................  15

                                  ARTICLE II

                                SECURITY FORMS.............................  15

Section 2.1    Forms Generally.............................................  15
Section 2.2    Legends.....................................................  17
Section 2.3    Form of Face of Security....................................  20
Section 2.5    Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.............  25

                                  ARTICLE III

                                THE SECURITIES.............................  25

Section 3.1    Title and Terms.............................................  25
Section 3.2    Denominations...............................................  28
Section 3.3    Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating..............  29
Section 3.4    Temporary Securities........................................  31
Section 3.5    Registration, Transfer and Exchange.........................  31

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Section 3.6    Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities............  37
Section 3.7    Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved..............  38
Section 3.8    Persons Deemed Owners.......................................  40
Section 3.9    Cancellation................................................  40
Section 3.10   Computation of Interest.....................................  40
Section 3.11   CUSIP Numbers...............................................  40

                                  ARTICLE IV

                         SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE........................  41

Section 4.1    Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.....................  41
Section 4.2    Legal Defeasance............................................  42
Section 4.3    Covenant Defeasance.........................................  42
Section 4.4    Conditions to Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.......  43
Section 4.5    Application of Trust Money..................................  44
Section 4.6    Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations...................  44

                                   ARTICLE V

                                   REMEDIES................................  44

Section 5.1    Events of Default...........................................  44
Section 5.2    Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment..........  46
Section 5.3    Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
               Trustee.....................................................  47
Section 5.4    Trustee May File Proofs of Claim............................  48
Section 5.5    Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.  49
Section 5.6    Application of Money Collected..............................  49
Section 5.7    Limitation on Suits.........................................  50
Section 5.8    Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium
               and Interest................................................  50
Section 5.9    Restoration of Rights and Remedies..........................  51
Section 5.10   Rights and Remedies Cumulative..............................  51
Section 5.11   Delay or Omission Not Waiver................................  51

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Section 5.12   Control by Holders..........................................  52
Section 5.13   Waiver of Past Defaults.....................................  52
Section 5.14   Undertaking for Costs.......................................  53
Section 5.15   Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.....................  53

                                  ARTICLE VI

                                 THE TRUSTEE...............................  54

Section 6.1    Certain Duties and Responsibilities.........................  54
Section 6.2    Notice of Defaults..........................................  55
Section 6.3    Certain Rights of Trustee...................................  56
Section 6.4    Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities......  57
Section 6.5    May Hold Securities.........................................  57
Section 6.6    Money Held in Trust.........................................  57
Section 6.7    Compensation and Reimbursement..............................  57
Section 6.8    Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.....................  58
Section 6.9    Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.....................  58
Section 6.10   Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor...........  59
Section 6.11   Acceptance of Appointment by Successor......................  61
Section 6.12   Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.  62
Section 6.13   Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company...........  63
Section 6.14   Appointment of Authenticating Agent.........................  63

                                  ARTICLE VII

                HOLDER'S LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY..........  65

Section 7.1    Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders...  65
Section 7.2    Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders......  65
Section 7.3    Reports by Trustee..........................................  65
Section 7.4    Reports by Company..........................................  66

                                 ARTICLE VIII

             CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE..........  67

Section 8.1    Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms........  67
Section 8.2    Successor Corporation Substituted...........................  68

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                                  ARTICLE IX

                           SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.........................  69

Section 9.1    Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders..........  69
Section 9.2    Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.............  70
Section 9.3    Execution of Supplemental Indentures........................  71
Section 9.4    Effect of Supplemental Indentures...........................  71
Section 9.5    Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.........................  72
Section 9.6    Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures..........  72

                                   ARTICLE X

                                   COVENANTS...............................  72

Section 10.1   Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest..................  72
Section 10.2   Maintenance of Office or Agency.............................  73
Section 10.3   Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust.............  73
Section 10.4   Statement as to Compliance..................................  75
Section 10.5   Waiver of Certain Covenants.................................  75
Section 10.6   Calculation of Original Issue Discount......................  75
Section 10.7   Limitation on Liens.........................................  76

                                  ARTICLE XI

                           REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES........................  76

Section 11.1   Applicability of This Article...............................  76
Section 11.2   Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.......................  77
Section 11.3   Selection of Securities to be Redeemed......................  77
Section 11.4   Notice of Redemption........................................  78
Section 11.5   Deposit of Redemption Price.................................  79
Section 11.6   Payment of Securities Called for Redemption.................  79

                                  ARTICLE XII

                                 SINKING FUNDS.............................  80

Section 12.1   Applicability of Article....................................  80

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Section 12.2   Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.......  80
Section 12.3   Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund...................  81

EXHIBITS

Exhibit A Transferrees Letter of Representation


EXHIBIT "4"

SENIOR INDENTURE, dated as of April 7, 1998, between THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION, a California corporation (hereinafter called the "Company") having its principal office at 114 East Fifth Street, Santa Ana, CA 92701, and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware banking corporation, as Trustee (hereinafter called the "Trustee").

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured senior debt securities in one or more series (hereinafter called the "Securities") of substantially the tenor hereinafter provided and to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Securities are to be authenticated, issued and delivered.

All things necessary to make the Securities, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Company, the valid obligations of the Company, and to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with their and its terms, have been done.

NOW THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof, as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section
1.1 Definitions.

For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular;

(2) All other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;


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(3) All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles which are generally accepted at the date or time of such computation; provided, that when two or more principles are so generally accepted, it shall mean that set of principles consistent with those in use by the Company;

(4) The words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article,
Section or other subdivision;

(5) The words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase "without limitation";

(6) Whenever the context may require, any gender shall be deemed to include the others; and

(7) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an "Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture.

"Act" when used with respect to any Holder has the meaning specified in
Section 1.4.

"Additional Interest" means the interest, if any, that shall accrue on any interest on the Securities of any series the payment of which has not been made on the applicable Interest Payment Date and which shall accrue at the rate per annum specified or determined as specified in such Security from the applicable Interest Payment Date.

"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect 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.

"Agent Members" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.

"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.14 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series.


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"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act hereunder.

"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors, or such committee of the Board of Directors or officers of the Company to which authority to act on behalf of the Board of Directors has been delegated, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

"Business Day" means any day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed or (iii) a day on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is closed for business.

"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or if at any time after the execution of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.

"Common Stock" means the Common shares, $1.00 par value, of the Company.

"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean such successor Person.

"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, the written request or order signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, its President or a Vice President, and by its principal financial officer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which at the date hereof is
Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration.

"corporation" includes a corporation, association, company, joint-stock company or business trust.


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"Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 4.3.

"Credit Facility" shall mean the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement among the Company, The Chase Manhattan Bank, and the lenders party thereto from time to time, dated as of July 29, 1997, as amended from time to time.

"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 3.7.

"Definitive Securities" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1..

"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to such series (or any successor thereto).

"Discount Security" means any security which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2.

"Dollar" means the currency of the United States of America that, as at the time of payment, is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

"Event of Default" unless otherwise specified in the supplemental indenture creating a series of Securities has the meaning specified in Article V.

"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1.4(f).

"Global 144A Security" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.

"Global Registered Security" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.

"Global Securities Legend" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2.

"Global Security" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.


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"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Securities Register.

"Indebtedness" means indebtedness for money borrowed or indebtedness evidenced by a bond, note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness.

"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of each particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 3.1.

"Interest Payment Date" means as to each series of Securities the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Securities.

"Legal Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 4.2.

"Lien" means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest of any kind.

"Make Whole Amount" when used with respect to any Security means the amount required to be paid by the Company in order to redeem such Security prior to its Stated Maturity.

"Maturity" when used with respect to any Security means the date on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

"Non-Global Purchasers" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.

"Nonrecourse Indebtedness" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1.

"Notice of Default" means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 5.1(3).

"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors , a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President or a Vice President, and by the principal financial officer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary (or any person expressly authorized by any of the foregoing persons) of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.


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"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.

"Original Issue Date" means the date of issuance specified as such in each Security.

"Outstanding" means, when used in reference to any Securities, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:

(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

(ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption price money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Securities; and

(iii) Securities in substitution for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered or which have been paid pursuant to
Section 3.6, unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Securities are held by Holders in whose hands such Securities are valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor. Upon the written request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officers' Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of the Company or any other obligor on the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such obligor, and, subject to the provisions of
Section 6.1(b), the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers' Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed therein are Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.


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"Paying Agent" means the Trustee or any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.

"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

"Place of Payment" means, with respect to the Securities of any series, the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of such series are payable pursuant to Sections 3.1 and 3.11.

"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.6 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Security.

"Purchase Money Lien" means (i) a Lien upon any capital stock of any Restricted Subsidiary acquired before or after the date of the Indenture if such Lien is for the purpose of financing the acquisition of the capital stock of such Restricted Subsidiary, and does not exceed the cost to the Company or any Subsidiary of acquiring the capital stock of such Restricted Subsidiary and such financing is effected concurrently with, or within six months after, the date of such acquisition and (ii) any extension, renewal or refinancing of any such Lien described in clause (i) immediately above so long as the principal amount of obligations secured thereby shall not exceed the original principal amount of obligations so secured at the time of any such extension, renewal or refinancing.

"QIB" means any "qualified institutional buyer" (as defined under the Securities Act).

"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.

"Redemption Price" means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, the price or Make Whole Amount at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.

"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date with respect to the Securities of a series means, unless otherwise provided pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect


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to Securities of a series, (i) if the Securities of a series are represented by one or more Global Securities, the Business Day next preceding such Interest Payment Date and (ii) if any of the Securities of a series are not represented by one or more Global Securities, the date which is fifteen days next preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day).

"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee means any officer of the Trustee within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of that officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

"Restricted Securities Legend" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2.

"Restricted Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary that is a licensed insurance company having capital and surplus in excess of $2.5 million.

"Rights Plan" means a plan of the Company providing for the issuance by the Company to all holders of its Common Stock of rights entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or any class or series of preferred stock of the Company, which rights (i) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of Common Stock, (ii) are not exercisable and (iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of Common Stock, in each case until the occurrence of a specified event or events.

"Rule 144A" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.

"Securities" or "Security" has the meaning set forth in the first recital of this Indenture.

"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.

"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.7.


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"Stated Maturity" when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon means the date specified pursuant to the terms of such Security as the date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of interest is due and payable, as such date, in the case of such principal, may be shortened or extended as provided pursuant to the terms of such Security and this Indenture.

"Subsidiary" means a corporation or business trust, a majority of the outstanding voting securities of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company and/or one or more Subsidiaries.

"Total Capitalization" means, as of the date of determination, the sum of
(i) all Indebtedness of the Company outstanding as of such date, including, without limitation, the Company's junior deferrable interest debentures, the Securities and all Indebtedness under the Credit Facility, (ii) the Company's consolidated shareholders' equity at the end of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Company immediately preceding such date of determination for which financial statements are or are required to be available and (iii) the minority interests in Subsidiaries of the Company at the end of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Company immediately preceding such date of determination for which financial statements are or are required to be available.

"Transfer Restricted Securities" Securities that bear or are required to bear the Restricted Securities Legend set forth in Section 2.2 hereof.

"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder and, if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.

"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. (S) 77aaa-77bbbb), as amended and as in effect on the date as of this Indenture, except as provided in Section 9.5.

"U.S. Government Obligations" has the meaning specified in Section 4.4.

"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company means any duly appointed vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title "vice president."


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SECTION 1.2 Compliance Certificate and Opinions.

Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent (including covenants, compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent), if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action or request have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent (including covenants compliance with which constitute a condition precedent), if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than the certificates provided pursuant to Section 10.4) shall include:

(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made or caused to be made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.


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SECTION 1.3 Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee.

In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer or counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his or her certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel rendering such Opinion of Counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions, or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.


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SECTION 1.4 Acts of Holders.

(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given to or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent or proxy duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments is or are delivered to the Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent or proxy shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a Person acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority.

(c) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient and in accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine.

(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.

(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.

(f) The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this


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Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of the relevant Outstanding Securities on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date, provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of the relevant Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of the relevant Outstanding Securities on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of the relevant Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.6.

The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 5.2, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in
Section 5.7(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 5.12, in each case with respect to the relevant Securities. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of the relevant Outstanding Securities on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date, provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of the relevant Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of the relevant Outstanding Securities on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of the relevant Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.6.


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With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the "Expiration Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day, provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of the relevant Outstanding Securities in the manner set forth in
Section 1.6, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.

(g) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.

SECTION 1.5 Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,

(1) the Trustee by any Holder or the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or

(2) the Company by the Trustee or any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose (except as otherwise provided in Section 5.1) hereunder if in writing and mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address subsequently furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.


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SECTION 1.6 Notice to Holders; Waiver.

Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at the address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

SECTION 1.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

At such time, if any, as this Indenture is qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, if any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by any of Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act through operation of Section 318(c) thereof, such imposed duties shall control.

SECTION 1.8 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

SECTION 1.9 Successors and Assigns.

All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

SECTION 1.10 Separability Clause.

In case any provision of this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.


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SECTION 1.11 Benefits of Indenture.

Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors and assigns, holders of indebtedness ranking pari passu with the Securities and the Holders of the Securities any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

SECTION 1.12 Governing Law.

THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF.

SECTION 1.13 Non-Business Days.

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day (and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, until such next succeeding Business Day) except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day (in each case with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date or at the Stated Maturity).

ARTICLE II

SECURITY FORMS

SECTION

2.1 Forms Generally.

The Securities of each series and the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article, or in such other form or forms as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations


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as are required or permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with applicable tax laws or the rules of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities may be listed or traded or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.3 with respect to the authentication and delivery of such Securities.

Securities registered under the Securities Act, shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global Securities in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons with the Global Securities Legend set forth in Section 2.2 hereof (each, a "Global Registered Security"), which shall be duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.

Securities that are not registered under the Securities Act and are offered and sold to QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act ("Rule

144A"), shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global

Securities in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons with the Global Securities Legend and Restricted Securities Legend set forth in
Section 2.2 hereof (each, a "Global 144A Security"; and when referred to herein with a Global Registered Security, a "Global Security"), which shall be duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.

This paragraph shall apply only to Global Securities. Members of, or participants in, the Depositary ("Agent Members") shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security held on their behalf by the Depositary or by the Trustee as the custodian of the Depositary or under such Global Security, and the Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of the Depositary governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Security.

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Except as provided in Section 3.5, owners of beneficial interests in Global Securities will not be entitled to receive Definitive Securities (as hereinafter defined). Securities that are not registered under the Securities Act and are offered and sold to Persons who are not QIBs (referred to herein as the "Non-

Global Purchasers") shall be issued initially to such Persons in the form of certificated Securities bearing the Restricted Securities Legend set forth in
Section 2.2 below ("Definitive Securities"); provided, however, that upon transfer of such Definitive Securities to a QIB, such Definitive Securities will, unless a Global Security has previously been exchanged, be exchanged for an interest in a Global Security pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.5 hereof. Definitive Securities will bear the Restricted Securities Legend set forth in Section 2.2 unless removed in accordance with Section 2.2 hereof.

The Securities shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods, if required by any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities may be listed or traded, on a steel engraved border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner permitted by the rules of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities may be listed or traded, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such securities.

SECTION 2.2 Legends.

Each Security certificate evidencing Global Securities (and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form ("Global Securities Legend"):

"UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.


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TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR'S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF."

Each Security certificate evidencing Global 144A Securities and Definitive Securities (and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form ("Restricted Securities Legend"):

"THIS SECURITY (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, REPRESENTS, ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER OF THIS SECURITY THAT: (I) IT HAS ACQUIRED A "RESTRICTED" SECURITY WHICH HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; (II) IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY PRIOR TO THE LATER OF THE DATE WHICH IS TWO YEARS AFTER THE DATE OF ORIGINAL ISSUANCE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE ISSUER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE ISSUER OF THIS SECURITY WAS THE OWNER OF SUCH RESTRICTED SECURITIES (OR ANY PREDECESSOR) EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THIS SECURITY IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON WHO THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS


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OF RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND, IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY APPLICABLE JURISDICTION; AND (III) IT WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER FROM IT OF THIS SECURITY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN (II) ABOVE. ANY OFFER, SALE OR OTHER DISPOSITION PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING CLAUSES (II)(C), (D) AND (E) IS SUBJECT TO THE RIGHT OF THE ISSUER OF THIS SECURITY TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUER IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE."

Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Security (including any Transfer Restricted Security represented by a Global 144A Security) pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act:

(a) in the case of any Transfer Restricted Security that is a Definitive Security, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for a Definitive Security that does not bear the Restricted Securities Legend set forth above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Security; and

(b) in the case of any such Transfer Restricted Security represented by a Global 144A Security, such Transfer Restricted Security shall not be required to bear the Restricted Securities Legend, although it shall continue to be subject to the provisions of Section 3.5 hereof; provided, however, that with respect to any request for an exchange of a Transfer Restricted Security that is represented by a Global 144A Security for a Definitive Security that does not bear the Restricted Securities Legend, which request is made in reliance upon Rule 144, the Holder thereof shall certify in writing to the Trustee that such request is being made pursuant to Rule 144 (such certification to be in the form set forth on the reverse of the Security).

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SECTION 2.3 Form of Face of Security.

THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
CUSIP ____
__% Senior Debentures Due ______________

No. __________ $__________

THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of California (hereinafter called the "Company", which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to____________________, or registered assigns, the principal sum of __________ Dollars on __________ __, ____. The Company further promises to pay interest on said principal sum from __________ __, ____ or from the most recent interest payment date (each such date, an "Interest Payment Date") on which interest has been paid or duly provided for, [monthly] [quarterly] [semi-annually] in arrears on [insert applicable Interest Payment Dates] of each year, commencing __________, at the rate of ____% per annum, until the principal hereof shall have become due and payable, [if applicable, insert plus Additional Interest, if any,] until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for or made available for payment. The amount of interest payable for any period shall be computed on the basis of twelve 30-day months and a 360-day year. The amount of interest payable for any partial period shall be computed on the basis of the number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. In the event that any date on which interest is payable on this Security is not a Business Day, then a payment of the interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if made on the date the payment was originally payable. A "Business Day" shall mean any day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed or (iii) a day on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is closed for business. The interest installment so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest installment, which shall be the [insert definition of Regular Record Dates]. Any such interest installment not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more


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Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities of this series may be listed or traded, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or self-regulatory organization, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

Payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the United States, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts [if applicable, insert -; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made (i) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Securities Register or (ii) by wire transfer in immediately available funds at such place and to such account as may be designated in writing at least 15 days before the relevant Interest Payment Date by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Securities Register]

The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is unsecured and ranks senior in right of payment to all existing or future indebtedness of the Company that is by its terms expressly subordinated in right of payment to this Security and ranks pari passu with all other indebtedness of the Company.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL
CORPORATION

By: _______________________________
[President or Vice President]

Attest:


[Secretary or Assistant Secretary]

SECTION 2.4 Form of Reverse of Security.

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be issued in one or more series under a Senior Indenture, dated as of __________ __, 1998 (herein called the "Indenture"), between the Company and Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in aggregate principal amount to $[__________].

All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them therein.

[If applicable, insert- The Company may at any time, at its option, on or after _________, ____, and subject to the terms and conditions of Article XI of the Indenture, redeem this Security in whole at any time or in part from time to time at a redemption price equal to the [following prices, expressed in percentages of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, [if


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applicable, insert -including Additional Interest, if any] to but excluding the Redemption Date. If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning _____ __:

                 Redemption
Year               Price
----             ----------

20__                   %
20__
20__
20__
20__
20__
20__
20__
20__
20__

and at 100% on or after _________ __, 20__] [Make Whole Amount].

The Indenture contains provisions for satisfaction and discharge of the entire indebtedness of this Security upon compliance by the Company with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the Company and the Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental indenture or indentures for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights and obligations of the Company and of the Holders of the Securities, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all series to be affected by such supplemental indenture. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of all series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.


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[If the Security is not a Discount Security, -As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of this series may declare the principal amount of all the Securities of this series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders) and upon any such declaration the principal amount of and the accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities of this series shall become immediately due and payable.]

[If the Security is a Discount Security, -As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of this series may declare an amount of principal of the Securities of this series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders). Such amount shall be equal to - insert formula for determining the amount. Upon any such declaration, such amount of the principal of and the accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities of this series shall become immediately due and payable.]

Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and
(ii) of interest on any overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company's obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on this Security shall terminate.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Securities Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company maintained under Section 10.2 of the Indenture duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge shall be made for any such registration of


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transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $__________ and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of such series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

THE INDENTURE AND THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF.

SECTION 2.5 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.

This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.

Dated:_____________                  The Wilmington Trust Company as Trustee


                                     By:____________________________________
                                     Authorized Signatory

ARTICLE III

THE SECURITIES

SECTION

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The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.

The Securities may be issued from time to time in one or more series. The following matters shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of a series:

(a) the title of the Securities of such series, which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities;

(b) the limit, if any, upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 9.6 or 11.6 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 3.3, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder); provided, however, that the authorized aggregate principal amount of such series may be increased above such amount by a Board Resolution to such effect;

(c) the Stated Maturity or Maturities on which the principal of the Securities of such series is payable or the method of determination thereof;

(d) the rate or rates, if any, at which the Securities of such series shall bear interest, if any, the rate or rates and extent to which Additional Interest, if any, shall be payable in respect of any Securities of such series, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable, and the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date or the method by which any of the foregoing shall be determined;

(e) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of such series shall be payable, the place or places where the Securities of such series may be presented for registration of transfer or exchange, and the place or places where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such series may be made;

(f) the period or periods within which, or the date or dates on which, if any, the price or prices (including, if applicable, Make Whole Amounts) at which and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of such series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;


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(g) the obligation or the right, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or purchase the Securities of such series pursuant to any sinking fund, amortization or analogous provisions or upon the happening of a specified event, or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which, the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in which and the other terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed, repaid or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

(h) the denominations in which any Securities of such series shall be issuable, if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof;

(i) if other than Dollars, the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in which the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be payable, or in which the Securities of the series shall be denominated;

(j) the additions, modifications or deletions, if any, in the Events of Default or covenants of the Company set forth herein with respect to the Securities of such series;

(k) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of such series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof;

(l) the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of the Securities of such series in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons;

(m) any index or indices used to determine the amount of payments of principal of and premium, if any, on the Securities of such series or the manner in which such amounts will be determined;

(n) whether the Securities of the series, or any portion thereof, shall initially be issuable in the form of a temporary Global Security representing all or such portion of the Securities of such series and provisions for the exchange of such temporary Global Security for definitive Securities of such series;

(o) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global


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Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 2.2 and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Section 3.5 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;

(p) the appointment of any Paying Agents for the Securities of such series;

(q) the terms of any right to convert or exchange Securities of such series into any other securities or property of the Company, and the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series to permit or facilitate such conversion or exchange;

(r) the terms of any right to convert or exchange Securities of such series into any other securities or property of the Company, and the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series to permit or facilitate such conversion or exchange;

(s) the additions, modifications or deletions, if any, in the Events of Default that apply to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holder of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 5.2;

(t) the relative degree, if any, to which the Securities of the series shall be senior to or be subordinated to other series of Securities in right of payment, whether such other series of Securities are Outstanding or not; and

(u) any other terms, conditions and rights of the Securities of such series (which terms, conditions and rights shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).

All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided herein or in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and set forth in such Officers' Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.

If any of the terms of the Securities of any series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.


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SECTION 3.2 Denominations.

The Securities of each series shall be in registered form without coupons and shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1.

SECTION 3.3 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its President or one of its Vice Presidents under its corporate seal reproduced or impressed thereon and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities. At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and make such Securities available for delivery. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,

(1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 2.1, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

(2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 3.1, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

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Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles; and

(4) that all requirements of New York, California and Federal law in respect of the execution and delivery by the Company of such Securities, and all covenants and conditions set forth in this Indenture which are conditions precedent hereto, have been complied with.

If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.1 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 3.1 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 3.9, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall not be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.


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SECTION 3.4 Temporary Securities.

Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities of such series in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause Definitive Securities of such series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of Definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for Definitive Securities upon surrender of the temporary Securities at the office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose without charge (except for tax or other governmental charges, if applicable) to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same terms as such temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.

SECTION 3.5 Registration, Transfer and Exchange.

The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. Such register is herein sometimes referred to as the "Securities Register." The Trustee is hereby appointed "Securities Registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers and exchanges of Securities as herein provided.

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at the office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, of the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same terms.


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At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, of the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same terms, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

Every Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Securities Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Securities.

The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to Global Securities:

(1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary (i) has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act at a time when the Depositary is required to be so registered to act as depositary, in either case unless the Company has approved a successor Depositary within 90 days, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security, (C) the Company in its sole discretion determines that such Global


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Security will be so exchangeable or transferable or (D) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 3.1.

(3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.

(4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 3.4, 3.6, 9.6 or 11.6 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.

The provisions of Clause (1) below shall only apply to transfers and exchanges of Definitive Securities:

(1) When Definitive Securities are presented by a Holder to the Securities Registrar with a request:

(a) to register the transfer of such Definitive Securities; or

(b) to exchange such Definitive Securities for an equal principal amount of Definitive Securities of other authorized denominations,

the Securities Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met; provided, however, that:

(i) such Definitive Securities shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by such Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing;

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(ii) if such Definitive Securities are Transfer Restricted Securities, such Definitive Securities shall also be accompanied by the following additional information and documents, as applicable:

(A) if such Transfer Restricted Securities are being delivered to the Securities Registrar by a Holder for registration in the name of such Holder, without transfer, a certification from such Holder to that effect (in the form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or

(B) if such Transfer Restricted Securities are being transferred (x) to the Company or to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act or (y) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, a certification from such Holder to that effect (in the form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or

(C) if such Transfer Restricted Securities are being transferred (w) pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance with Rule 144 or Regulation S under the Securities Act; or (x) to an institutional "accredited investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act that is acquiring the Security for its own account, or for the account of such an institutional accredited investor, in each case in a minimum principal amount of the Securities of $100,000 for investment purposes and not with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution in violation of the Securities Act; or (y) in reliance on another exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act: (i) a certification to that effect from such Holder (in the form set forth on the reverse of the Security), (ii) if the Company or the Trustee so requests, an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company and to the Trustee to the effect that such transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and (iii) in the case of clause (x), a signed letter from the transferee substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto.

The provisions of Clause (1) below shall only apply to transfers and exchanges of a Definitive Security for a beneficial interest in a Global Security.

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by the Trustee of a Definitive Security, duly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, together with:

(a) certification, in the form set forth on the reverse of the Security, to the effect that such Definitive Security is being transferred to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; and

(b) written instructions from the Holder thereof directing the Trustee to make, or to direct the Securities Registrar to make, an endorsement on the Global Security to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Securities represented by the Global Security,

then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Security and cause, or direct the Securities Registrar to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the Depositary and the Securities Registrar, the aggregate principal amount of Securities represented by the Global Security to be increased accordingly. If no Global Securities are then outstanding, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon written order of the Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate, a new Global Security in the appropriate principal amount. The Trustee shall deliver copies of each certification and instruction received by it pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) above to the Depositary and, upon receipt thereof, the Depositary shall make appropriate adjustments to its books and records to reflect exchange of such Definitive Security for an interest in the Global Security in accordance with this
Section 3.5.

The provisions in Clauses (1) and (2) below shall only apply to the transfer and exchange of a beneficial interest in a Global Security for a Definitive Security.

(1) Any person having a beneficial interest in a Global Security may upon request exchange such beneficial interest for a Definitive Security of the same aggregate principal amount; provided that such request is accompanied by the information specified below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of written instructions (or such other form of instructions as is customary for the Depositary) from the Depositary or its nominee on behalf of any Person having a beneficial interest in a Global Security and, in the case of a Transfer Restricted Security, the following additional information and documents (all of which may be submitted by facsimile):

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(a) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to the Person designated by the Depositary as being the owner of a beneficial interest in a Global Security, a certification from such Person to that effect (in the form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or

(b) if such beneficial interest is being transferred (x) to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act or (y) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, a certification from such person to that effect (in the form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or

(c) if such beneficial interest is being transferred (w) pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance with Rule 144 or Regulation S under the Securities Act; or (x) to an institutional "accredited investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act that is acquiring the security for its own account, or for the account of such an institutional accredited investor, in each case in a minimum principal amount of the Securities of $100,000 for investment purposes and not with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution in violation of the Securities Act; or (y) in reliance on another exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act: (i) a certification to that effect from the transferee (in the form set forth on the reverse of the Security), (ii) if the Company or the Trustee so requests, an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company and to the Trustee to the effect that such transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act, and (iii) in the case of clause (x), a signed letter from the transferee in the form of Exhibit A hereto;

then the Securities Registrar, at the direction of the Trustee, will cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the Depositary and the Securities Registrar, the aggregate principal amount of the Global Security to be reduced accordingly and, following such reduction, the Company will execute and the Trustee will authenticate and deliver to the transferee one or more Definitive Securities in accordance with clause (2) below.

(2) Definitive Securities issued in exchange for a beneficial interest in a Global Security pursuant to this Section 3.5 shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee in writing. The Trustee shall


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deliver such Definitive Securities to the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered in accordance with the instructions of the Depositary.

Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required, pursuant to the provisions of this Section, (a) to issue, transfer or exchange any Security of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of Securities pursuant to Article XI and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of notice of redemption or
(b) to transfer or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.

SECTION 3.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.

If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee together with such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to save each of them harmless, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor a new Security of the same issue and series of like tenor and principal amount, having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and bearing the same interest rate as such mutilated Security, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and
(ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same issue and series of like tenor and principal amount, having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and bearing the same interest rate as such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.


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Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.

The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

SECTION 3.7 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.

Interest on any Security of any series which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date, shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest in respect of Securities of such series, except that, unless otherwise provided in the Securities of such series, interest payable on the Stated Maturity of the principal of a Security shall be paid to the Person to whom principal is paid. The initial payment of interest on any Security of any series which is issued between a Regular Record Date and the related Interest Payment Date shall be payable as provided in such Security or in the Board Resolution pursuant to
Section 3.1 with respect to the related series of Securities. At the option of the Company, interest on any series of Securities may be paid (i) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it shall appear on the Securities Register of such series or (ii) by wire transfer in immediately available funds at such place and to such account as designated by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Securities Register of such series.

Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not timely paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series (herein called "Defaulted Interest"), shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:

(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series in respect of which interest is in default (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be


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paid on each Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Upon such deposit, the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Security of such series at the address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. The Trustee may (but shall have no duty to), in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be published at least once in a newspaper, customarily published in the English language on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, but such publication shall not be a condition precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).

(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities of the series in respect of which interest is in default may be listed or traded and, upon such notice as may be required by such exchange (or by the Trustee if the Securities are not listed), if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.


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SECTION 3.8 Persons Deemed Owners.

The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and (subject to
Section 3.7) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

SECTION 3.9 Cancellation.

All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities and Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities shall be returned by the Trustee to the Company and destroyed by the Company.

SECTION 3.10 Computation of Interest.

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series for any period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and interest on the Securities of each series for any partial period shall be computed on the basis of the number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

SECTION 3.11 CUSIP Numbers.

The Company in issuing the Securities may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on


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the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers.

ARTICLE IV

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

SECTION

4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, on written demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute instruments supplied by the Company acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when (1) either (A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.6 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.3) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (i) have become due and payable, or (ii) will become due and payable at their Maturity within one year, or (iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as funds in trust for such purpose in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be; (2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under
Section 6.7 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.5 and the last paragraph of Section 10.3 shall survive.


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SECTION 4.2 Legal Defeasance.

In addition to discharge of this Indenture pursuant to Section 4.1, in the case of any Securities with respect to which the exact amount described in subparagraph A of Section 4.4 can be determined at the time of making the deposit referred to in such subparagraph A, the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 4.4 are satisfied, and the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the Securities shall no longer be in effect (except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Securities, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities, (iii) rights of Holders of Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in subparagraph A of Section 4.4, payments of principal thereof and interest, if any, thereon upon the original stated due dates therefor (but not upon acceleration), (iv) the rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, (v) this Section 4.2 and (vi) the rights of the Holders of Securities as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them) (hereinafter called "Legal Defeasance"), and the Trustee, at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments supplied by the Company acknowledging the same.

SECTION 4.3 Covenant Defeasance.

In the case of any Securities with respect to which the exact amount described in subparagraph A of Section 4.4 can be determined at the time of making the deposit referred to in such subparagraph A, (a) the Company shall be released from its obligations under any covenants specified in or pursuant to this Indenture (except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Securities, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities, (iii) rights of Holders of Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in subparagraph A of Section 4.4, payments of principal thereof and interest, if any, thereon upon the original stated due dates therefor (but not upon acceleration), (iv) the rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, (v) this Section 4.3 and (vi) the rights of the Holders of Securities as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them), and (b) the occurrence of any event specified in Section 5.1(3) (with respect to any of the covenants specified in or pursuant to this Indenture) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to the Outstanding Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 4.4 are satisfied (hereinafter called "Covenant Defeasance"), and the Trustee, at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments supplied by the Company acknowledging the same. For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no


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liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant (to the extent so specified in the case of Section 5.1(3)), whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and the Securities shall be unaffected thereby.

SECTION 4.4 Conditions to Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section 4.2 or 4.3 to the Outstanding Securities:

A. with reference to Section 4.2 or 4.3, the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee as funds in trust, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of Securities (i) cash in an amount, (ii) direct obligations of the United States of America, backed by its full faith and credit or obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America (collectively, "U.S. Government Obligations"), maturing as to principal and interest, if any, at such times and in such amounts as will ensure the availability of cash, or (iii) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge the principal of and interest, if any, on all Securities on each date that such principal or interest, if any, is due and payable;

B. in the case of Legal Defeasance under Section 4.2, the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel based on the fact that (x) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (y), since the date hereof, there has been a change in the applicable United States federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and Legal Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and Legal Defeasance had not occurred;

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purposes as a result of such deposit and Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;

D. such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; and

E. the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent contemplated by this provision have been complied with.

SECTION 4.5 Application of Trust Money.

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all money and U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 and Section 4.4 shall be held in trust and such money and all money from such U.S. Government Obligations shall be applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for whose payment such money and U.S. Government Obligations has been deposited with the Trustee.

SECTION 4.6 Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations.

The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 4.4 or the principal or interest received in respect of such obligations other than any such tax, fee or other charge that by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.

ARTICLE V

REMEDIES

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"Event of Default", wherever used herein with respect to the Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that series, including any Additional Interest in respect thereof, when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or

(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security of that series at its Maturity; or

(3) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture with respect to that series (other than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance of which or the breach of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied; or

(4) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its property or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

(5) the institution by the Company of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part


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of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit for creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action; or

(6) any default or event of default under any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than Indebtedness secured by assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries the terms of which limit the remedies of the holder or holders thereof primarily to the assets so secured ("Nonrecourse Indebtedness"), which default or event of default results in at least $10 million of aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness being declared due and payable prior to maturity and such acceleration is not rescinded within 10 days thereafter; or

(7) failure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to pay at maturity any Indebtedness other than Nonrecourse Indebtedness in excess of $10 million aggregate principal amount, and such failure shall not have been cured within 10 days thereafter; or

(8) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.

SECTION 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(4) or 5.1(5)) with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount (or, if the Securities of that series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of all the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders) and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified portion thereof) of and the accrued interest on all the Securities of such series shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(4) or 5.1(5) with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of that series (or, if the Securities of that series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms of that series) shall automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable.


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At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount (or, if the Securities of that series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:

(A) all overdue installments of interest (including Additional Interest) on all Securities of that series,

(B) the unpaid principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, and

(C) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and

(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series (or all series, as the case may be), other than the non-payment of the principal of (or the premium, if any, on) or interest on Securities of that series (or of all series, as the case may be) which have become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

SECTION 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.

The Company covenants that if:

(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest (including Additional Interest) on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or

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the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal, including any sinking fund payment or analogous obligations (and premium, if any) and interest (including Additional Interest); and, in addition thereto, all amounts owing the Trustee under Section 6.7.

If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities, wherever situated.

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

SECTION 5.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors,

(a) the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities of any series shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration of acceleration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) shall be entitled and empowered (but shall have no duty), to the fullest extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,

(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (or, if the Securities of that series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be due and payable pursuant to a declaration in accordance with Section 5.2) (and premium, if any) and


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interest (including Additional Interest) owing and unpaid in respect to the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable and, at such time, if any, as this Indenture is qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, to take any and all actions as are authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have the claims of the Holders and any predecessor to the Trustee under Section 6.7 allowed in any such judicial proceedings; and

(ii) in particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same in accordance with Section 5.6; and

(b) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee for distribution in accordance with Section 5.6, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors' or other similar committee.

SECTION 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.

All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of all the amounts owing the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.


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SECTION 5.6 Application of Money Collected.

Any money or property collected or to be applied by the Trustee with respect to a series of Securities pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money or property on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest), upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7;

SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon such series of Securities for principal (and premium, if any), interest (including Additional Interest), in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such series of Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including Additional Interest), respectively; and

THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto.

SECTION 5.7 Limitation on Suits.

No Holder of any Securities of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;

(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;

(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;


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(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of security or indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and

(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;

it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Securities, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders.

SECTION 5.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right which is absolute and unconditional to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.7) interest (including Additional Interest) on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

SECTION 5.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or such Holder, then and in every such case the Company, the Trustee or the Holders shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee or the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.


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SECTION 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

Except as otherwise provided in the last paragraph of Section 3.6, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

Section 5.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

No delay or omission of the Trustee or any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.

Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or the Holders, as the case may be.

SECTION 5.12 Control by Holders.

The Holders of not less than of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that:

(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture,

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(3) subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow such direction if a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee shall, in good faith, determine that the proceeding so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not joining in any such direction or would involve the Trustee in personal liability.

SECTION 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults.

The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may waive any past default hereunder and its consequences with respect to such series except a default:

(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on any Security of such series (unless all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the non- payment of the principal of Securities of that series which has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or annulled as provided in Section 5.3 and the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all overdue installments of interest (including Additional Interest) on all Securities of that series, the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, and all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel), or

(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.

Any such waiver shall be deemed to be on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series.

Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.


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SECTION 5.14 Undertaking for Costs.

All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security.

SECTION 5.15 Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.

The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

ARTICLE VI

THE TRUSTEE

SECTION

6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

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(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not on their face they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.

(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.

(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct except that

(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of Subsection (a) of this Section;

(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of Holders pursuant to Section 5.12 relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series.

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repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

(e) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.

SECTION 6.2 Notice of Defaults.

Within 90 days after actual knowledge by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities of such series, as their names and addresses appear in the Securities Register, notice of such default, unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on any Security of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of Securities of such series; and provided, further, that, in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 5.1(3), no such notice to Holders of Securities of such series shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.

SECTION 6.3 Certain Rights of Trustee.

Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1:

(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, Security or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;


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(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate;

(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;

(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, indenture, Security or other paper or document, but the Trustee in its discretion may make such inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;

(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder; and

(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith, without negligence and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.


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SECTION 6.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Securities or the proceeds thereof.

SECTION 6.5 May Hold Securities.

The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Securities Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 6.8 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Securities Registrar or such other agent.

SECTION 6.6 Money Held in Trust.

Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.

SECTION 6.7 Compensation and Reimbursement.

The Company, as borrower, agrees

(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

(2) to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and


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counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and

(3) to indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, claim or expense (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel) incurred without negligence or bad faith, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust or the performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. This indemnification shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the resignation or removal of the Trustee hereunder.

To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section, the Company and the Holders agree that the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee. Such lien shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(4) or (5) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, or any successor statute.

SECTION 6.8 Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.

The Trustee for the Securities of any series issued hereunder shall be subject to the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. Nothing herein shall prevent the Trustee from filing with the Commission the application referred to in the second to last paragraph of said Section 310(b).

SECTION 6.9 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be

(a) a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any state or territory or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and subject to supervision or examination by federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia authority, or


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(b) a corporation or other Person organized and doing business under the laws of a foreign government that is permitted to act as Trustee pursuant to a rule, regulation or order of the Commission, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, and subject to supervision or examination by authority of such foreign government or a political subdivision thereof substantially equivalent to supervision or examination applicable to United States institutional trustees,

in either case, having securities rated in one of the three highest rating categories by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then, for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article. Neither the Company nor any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Company shall serve as Trustee for the Securities of any series issued hereunder.

Section 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 6.11.

(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after such removal, the Trustee being removed may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.


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(d) If at any time:

(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.8 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or

(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.9 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or

(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,

then, in any such case, (i) the Company, acting pursuant to the authority of a Board Resolution, may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 5.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, subject to Section 5.14, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.


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(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in the Securities Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

SECTION 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of all amounts due to it under Section 6.7, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.

(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and
(3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring


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Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts, and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee, upon payment of all amounts due to it under Section 6.7, shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph
(a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.

(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.

SECTION 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated, and in case any Securities shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor Trustee or in the name of such successor Trustee, and in all cases the certificate of authentication shall have the full force which it is provided anywhere in the Securities or in this Indenture that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.

SECTION 6.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).


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SECTION 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 3.6, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, or of any state or territory or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal, or state, territorial or District of Columbia authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.

Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent shall be the successor Authenticating Agent hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be


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acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such appointment in the manner provided in Section 1.6 to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provision of this Section.

The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.

If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:

This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.

Dated:                         /s/
                               -------------------------------------------------
                               As Trustee

By:

As Authenticating Agent

By:
Authorized Officer

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ARTICLE VII

HOLDER'S LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

SECTION

7.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.

The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

(a) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after January 15 and July 15 in each year, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such January 1 and July 1, and

(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished,

excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Securities Registrar.

SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders.

(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Securities Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act.

(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of the Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.


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SECTION 7.3 Reports by Trustee.

(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto. If required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall, within sixty days after each May 15 following the date of this Indenture deliver to Holders a brief report, dated as of such May 15, which complies with the provisions of such Section 313(a).

(b) If this Indenture shall have been qualified under the Trustee Indenture Act, a copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, if any, and also with the Commission. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.

SECTION 7.4 Reports by Company.

The Company shall file with the Trustee and with the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is required to be filed with the Commission. At any time when the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, upon the request of a Holder or a beneficial owner of a Security, the Company shall promptly furnish the information specified in Rule 144A (d) (4) of the Securities Act (or any successor provision), or cause such information to be furnished, to such Holder or beneficial owner in order to permit compliance by such Holder or beneficial owner with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to furnish such information at any time to a prospective purchaser located outside the United States who is not a "U.S. person" within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act. If this Indenture shall have been qualified under the Trustee Indenture Act, the Company also shall comply with the other provisions of Trust Indenture Act Section 314(a). Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein, including the Company's compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers' Certificates).


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ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

Section
8.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:

(1) the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership or trust organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any State or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including Additional Interest) on all the Securities and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;

(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and

(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and any such supplemental indenture complies with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with; and the Trustee, subject to Section 6.1, may rely upon such Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that such transaction complies with this Section 8.1.


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Section 8.2 Successor Corporation Substituted.

Upon any consolidation or merger by the Company with or into any other Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section 8.1, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein; and in the event of any such conveyance, transfer or lease the Company shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under the Indenture and the Securities and may be dissolved and liquidated.

Such successor Person may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the written order of such successor Person instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall make available for delivery any Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication pursuant to such provisions and any Securities which such successor Person thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee on its behalf for the purpose pursuant to such provisions. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.

In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease, such changes in phraseology and form may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.


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ARTICLE IX

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section
9.1 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders.

Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities contained; or

(2) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Trustee or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or

(3) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.1 or 3.1; or

(4) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or

(5) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series); or

(6) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination shall (a) become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such provision or (b) not apply to any Outstanding Securities; or


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(7) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this clause (7) shall not adversely affect the interest of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect; or

(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11(b); or

(9) at such time, if any, as this Indenture is qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.

With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,

(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest (including any Additional Interest) on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or reduce any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of principal of a Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2, or change the place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or


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(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or

(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13 or Section 10.5, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Security affected thereby.

A supplemental indenture that changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture that has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures.

In executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and that all conditions precedent have been complied with. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indentures.

Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.


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Section 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.

At such time, if any, as this Indenture is qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.

Section 9.6 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.

Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Company, bear a notation in form approved by the Company as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and made available for delivery by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.

ARTICLE X

COVENANTS

Section 10.1 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including Additional Interest) on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.


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Section 10.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency.

The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities, an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment and an office or agency where Securities of that series may be surrendered for transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company initially appoints the Trustee, acting through its Corporate Trust Office, as its agent for said purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any change in the location of any such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all of such purposes, and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation and any change in the location of any such office or agency.

Section 10.3 Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust.

If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on any of the Securities of such series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its failure so to act.

Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will, prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on each due date of the principal of or interest (including Additional Interest) on any Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal and premium (if any) or interest, and


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(unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its failure so to act.

The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:

(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on Securities in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;

(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest);

(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent; and

(4) at such time, if any, as this Indenture is qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent.

The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by the Company or any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest) on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law) be paid on Company Request to the Company, or (if then held by the Company) shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law) be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured


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general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the direction and expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.

Section 10.4 Statement as to Compliance.

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each calendar year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers' Certificate, one of the signatories of which shall be the principal executive, principal financial or principal accounting officer of the Company, covering the preceding calendar year, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of or compliance with any of the terms, provisions, covenants and conditions of this Indenture, and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge. For the purpose of this Section 10.4, compliance shall be determined without regard to any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

Section 10.5 Waiver of Certain Covenants.

The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant or condition provided pursuant to Section 3.1, 9.1(3) or 9.1(4) with respect to the Securities of any series, if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company in respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

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The Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on Outstanding Securities as of the end of such year, if any.

Section 10.7 Limitation on Liens.

The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien, other than a Purchase Money Lien, upon any capital stock of any Restricted Subsidiary, whether owned on the date of the Indenture or thereafter acquired, to secure any Indebtedness (other than the Senior Debentures) of the Company, any Subsidiary or any other Person without in any such case making effective provision whereby all of the outstanding Senior Debentures shall be directly secured equally and ratably with such Indebtedness or, if such Indebtedness is secured by such a Lien and is expressly subordinated or junior in right of payment to the Senior Debentures, secured by such a Lien that is senior in priority to the Lien securing such Indebtedness; provided, however, that this restriction will not apply to (i) Liens on the capital stock of any Restricted Subsidiary securing Indebtedness outstanding from time to time, provided that the principal amount of all such Indebtedness secured by Liens on the capital stock of any Restricted Subsidiary, at the time of each incurrence of any portion of any such Indebtedness, does not exceed 20% of Total Capitalization and (ii) Liens securing Indebtedness from the Company to any wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary or from any wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or its subsidiaries.

Nothing in this Section 10.7 or elsewhere in this Indenture contained shall prevent or be deemed to restrict any other property of the Company or its Subsidiaries or to prohibit the creation, assumption, or guaranty by the Company or any Subsidiary of any debentures, notes, or other evidences of unsecured indebtedness, whether in the ordinary course of business or otherwise.

ARTICLE XI

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

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Redemption of Securities of any series (whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise) as permitted or required by any form of Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be made in accordance with such form of Security and this Article; provided, however, that if any provision of any such form of Security shall conflict with any provision of this Article, the provision of such form of Security shall govern. Except as otherwise set forth in the form of Security for such series, each Security of such series shall be subject to partial redemption only in the amount of $1,000 or, in the case of the Securities of a series issued to a Trust, $1,000, or integral multiples thereof.

Section 11.2 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.

The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of the Securities, the Company shall, not less than 45 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such date and of the principal amount of Securities of that series to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance with such restriction.

Section 11.3 Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.

If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by lot or such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series, provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.


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The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for partial redemption and the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed. If the Company shall so direct, Securities registered in the name of the Company, any Affiliate or any Subsidiary thereof shall not be included in the Securities selected for redemption.

Section 11.4 Notice of Redemption.

Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not later than the thirtieth day, and not earlier than the sixtieth day, prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at the address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register.

With respect to Securities of each series to be redeemed, each notice of redemption shall identify the Securities to be redeemed (including CUSIP number, if a CUSIP number has been assigned to such Securities of such Series) and shall state:

(a) the Redemption Date;

(b) the Redemption Price or, if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to the time the notice is required to be sent, an estimate of the Redemption Price together with a statement that it is an estimate and the actual Redemption Price will be calculated on the third Business Day prior to the Redemption Date (and, if such an estimate of the Redemption Price is given, a subsequent notice shall be given as set forth above on the date that such Redemption Price is calculated setting forth the actual Redemption Price);

(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities of such particular series and having the same terms are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;

(d) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security or portion thereof, and that interest thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after said date;


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(e) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;

(f) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case; and

(g) such other provisions as may be required in respect of the terms of a particular series of Securities.

Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be revocable. The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, a failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Security.

Section 11.5 Deposit of Redemption Price.

Prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date specified in the notice of redemption given as provided in Section 11.4, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents (or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company will segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.3) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and any accrued interest on (including Additional Interest), all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.

Section 11.6 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption.

If any notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 11.4, the Securities or portion of Securities shall become due and payable on the date and at the place or places stated in such notice at the applicable Redemption Price. On presentation and surrender of such Securities at a Place of Payment in said notice specified, the said Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price, together with accrued interest (including Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.7.


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Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities of the same series, of authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented and having the same Original Issue Date, Stated Maturity and terms. If a Global Security is so surrendered, such new Security will also be a new Global Security.

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal of and premium, if any, on such Security shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.

ARTICLE XII

SINKING FUNDS

Section 12.1 Applicability of Article.

The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for such Securities.

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of any Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund payment", and any sinking fund payment in excess of such minimum amount which is permitted to be made by the terms of such Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of any Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 12.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of such Securities.

Section 12.2 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.

In lieu of making all or any part of a mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of a series in cash, the Company may at its option, at any time no more than 16 months and no less than 30 days prior to the date on which such sinking fund payment is due, deliver to the Trustee Securities of such series (together with the unmatured coupons, if any, appertaining


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thereto) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company, except Securities of such series that have been redeemed through the application of mandatory or optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of the Securities of such series, accompanied by a Company Order instructing the Trustee to credit such obligations and stating that the Securities of such series were originally issued by the Company by way of bona fide sale or other negotiation for value; provided that the Securities to be so credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price for such Securities, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.

Section 12.3 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

Not less than 30 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash in the currency in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as provided pursuant to Section 3.1) and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 12.2 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Such Officers' Certificate shall be irrevocable and upon its delivery the Company shall be obligated to make the cash payment or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the succeeding sinking fund payment date. In the case of the failure of the Company to deliver such Officers' Certificate (or, as required by this Indenture, the Securities and coupons, if any, specified in such Officers' Certificate), the sinking fund payment due on the succeeding sinking fund payment date for such series shall be paid entirely in cash and shall be sufficient to redeem the principal amount of the Securities of such series subject to a mandatory sinking fund payment without the right to deliver or credit Securities as provided in
Section 12.2 and without the right to make the optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series at such time.

Any sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional) made in cash plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made with respect to the Securities of any particular series shall be applied by the Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent) on the sinking fund payment date on which such payment is made (or, if such payment is made before a sinking fund payment date, on the sinking fund payment date immediately following the date of such payment) to the redemption of Securities of such series at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities with respect to the sinking fund. Any sinking


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fund moneys not so applied or allocated by the Trustee (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregated and held in trust by the Company as provided in Section 10.3) for such series and together with such payment (or such amount so segregated) shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section 12.3. Any and all sinking fund moneys with respect to the Securities of any particular series held by the Trustee (or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregated and held in trust as provided in
Section 10.3) on the last sinking fund payment date with respect to Securities of such series and not held for the payment or redemption of particular Securities of such series shall be applied by the Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent), together with other moneys, if necessary, to be deposited (or segregated) sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of the Securities of such series at Maturity. The Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 11.3 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 11.4. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Section 11.6. On or before each sinking fund payment date, the Company shall pay to the Trustee (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.3) in cash a sum in the currency in which Securities of such series are payable (except as provided pursuant to Section 3.1) equal to the principal and any interest accrued to the Redemption Date for Securities or portions thereof to be redeemed on such sinking fund payment date pursuant to this Section 12.3.

Neither the Trustee nor the Company shall redeem any Securities of a series with sinking fund moneys or mail any notice of redemption of Securities of such series by operation of the sinking fund for such series during the continuance of a default in payment of interest, if any, on any Securities of such series or of any Event of Default (other than an Event of Default occurring as a consequence of this paragraph) with respect to the Securities of such series, except that if the notice of redemption shall have been provided in accordance with the provisions hereof, the Trustee (or the Company, if the Company is then acting as its own Paying Agent) shall redeem such Securities if cash sufficient for that purpose shall be deposited with the Trustee (or segregated by the Company) for that purpose in accordance with the terms of this Article XII. Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for such series at the time when any such default or Event of Default shall occur and any moneys thereafter paid into such sinking fund shall, during the continuance of such default or Event of Default, be held as security for the payment of the Securities and coupons, if any, of such series; provided, however, that in case such default or Event of Default shall have been cured or waived herein, such moneys shall thereafter be applied


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on the next sinking fund payment date for the Securities of such series on which such moneys may be applied pursuant to the provisions of this Section 12.3.

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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.

THE FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL
CORPORATION

By: /s/ Thomas A. Klemens
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  Name:   Thomas A. Klemens
  Title:  EVP/CFO

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
as Trustee

By: /s/ Denise M. Geran
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  Name:   Denise M. Geran
  Title:  Financial Services Officer


EXHIBIT A

Transferee Letter of Representation

The First American Financial Corporation Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee

Dear Sirs:

This certificate is delivered to request a transfer of $ principal amount of the ________% Senior Debentures Due __________ (the "Restricted Securities") of The First American Financial Corporation ("Company").

Upon transfer, the Securities would be registered in the name of the new beneficial owner as follows:

Name: ___________________________________

Address: ________________________________

Taxpayer ID Number: _____________________

The undersigned represents and warrants to you that:

1. We are an institutional "accredited investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act (an "Institutional Accredited Investor") that is purchasing Restricted Securities with a principal amount of at least $100,000, and if the Restricted Securities are to be purchased for one or more accounts ("investor accounts") for which we are acting as fiduciary or agent, each such account is an Institutional Accredited Investor that is purchasing Restricted Securities with a principal amount of at least $100,000. In the normal course of our business, we invest in or purchase securities similar to the Restricted Securities and we have such knowledge and experience in financial business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of purchasing the Restricted Securities. We are aware that we (or any investor account) may be required to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Restricted Securities for an indefinite period of time and we are (or such account is) able to bear such risk for an indefinite period.


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2. We acknowledge that none of the Company or the Initial Purchasers (as defined in the Offering Memorandum), or any person representing the Company or the Initial Purchasers, has made any representation to us with respect to the Company or the offering of the Restricted Securities, other than the Offering Memorandum dated ____________________ (the "Offering Memorandum"), a copy of which has been delivered to us and upon which we are relying in making our investment decision with respect to the Restricted Securities. Accordingly, we acknowledge that no representation or warranty is made by the Initial Purchasers as to the accuracy or completeness of such materials. We have had access to such financial and other information concerning the Company and the Restricted Securities as we deemed necessary in connection with our decision to purchase the Restricted Securities, including an opportunity to ask questions and request information from the Company and the Initial Purchasers. We acknowledge that we have read and agreed to the matters stated under the caption "Transfer Restrictions" in such Offering Memorandum and the restrictions on duplication and circulation of such Offering Memorandum.

3. We understand that any subsequent transfer of the Restricted Securities is subject to certain restrictions and conditions set forth in the Offering Memorandum under the caption "Transfer Restrictions" and we agree to be bound by, and not to resell, pledge or otherwise transfer the Restricted Securities except in compliance with such restrictions and conditions and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

4. We understand and hereby acknowledge that prior to the effectiveness of a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the Restricted Securities, the Restricted Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act, and may not be sold except as permitted in the following sentence. We agree to offer, sell or otherwise transfer such Restricted Securities prior to the date which is two years after the later of the date of original issue and the last date on which the Company or any affiliate of the Company was the owner of such Restricted Securities (or any predecessor thereto) (the "Resale Restriction Termination Date") only (a) to the Company, (b) pursuant to a registration statement which has been declared effective under the Securities Act, (c) for so long as the Restricted Securities are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act, to a person we reasonable believe is qualified institutional buyer under Rule 144A ("QIB") that purchases for its own account or for the account of a QIB to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (d) outside the United States in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act or (e) pursuant to any other available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and, in each case, in accordance with the applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction and


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subject to any requirement of law that the disposition of our property or the property of such investor account or accounts be at all times within our or their control. The foregoing restriction on resale will not apply subsequent to the Resale Restriction Termination Date. We acknowledge that the Company and the Trustee reserve the right prior to any offer, sale or other transfer prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date of the Restricted Securities pursuant to clause (d) or (e) above to require the delivery of an opinion of counsel, certifications or other information acceptable to the Company and the Trustee in form and substance. We acknowledge that the Restricted Securities purchased by us will be in the form of definitive physical certificates and will bear a legend reflecting the substance of this paragraph 4.

5. Prior to any proposed transfer of the Restricted Securities (other than pursuant to an effective registration statement) occurring before the Resale Restriction Termination Date, we must check the appropriate box set forth on the reverse of the certificate(s) evidencing such Restricted Securities relating to the manner of such transfer and submit such certificate(s) to the Trustee. We understand that the Trustee will not be required to accept any Restricted Securities for registration of transfer, except upon presentation of evidence satisfactory to the Company and to the Trustee that the foregoing restrictions on transfer have been complied with.

6. We are acquiring the Restricted Securities for our own account or for one or more accounts (each of which is an "institutional accredited investor") as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion.

7. We are not acquiring the Restricted Securities with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution in violation of the Securities Act.

8. We shall provide to any person purchasing any Restricted Securities from us a notice advising such purchaser that transfers of the Restricted Securities are restricted as set forth herein.

We acknowledge that you and others will rely upon our confirmations, acknowledgments and agreements set forth herein, and we agree to notify you promptly in writing if any of our representations or warranties herein ceases to be accurate and complete. You are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.


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THIS LETTER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.

TRANSFEREE:_____________________

BY______________________________


ARTICLE 7


PERIOD TYPE 6 MOS
FISCAL YEAR END DEC 31 1998
PERIOD START JAN 01 1998
PERIOD END JUN 30 1998
DEBT HELD FOR SALE 199,946,000
DEBT CARRYING VALUE 0
DEBT MARKET VALUE 0
EQUITIES 31,422,000
MORTGAGE 0
REAL ESTATE 0
TOTAL INVEST 312,727,000
CASH 297,975,000
RECOVER REINSURE 0
DEFERRED ACQUISITION 26,759,000
TOTAL ASSETS 1,598,282,000
POLICY LOSSES 262,824,000
UNEARNED PREMIUMS 0
POLICY OTHER 0
POLICY HOLDER FUNDS 0
NOTES PAYABLE 145,032,000
PREFERRED MANDATORY 0
PREFERRED 0
COMMON 56,820,000
OTHER SE 520,106,000
TOTAL LIABILITY AND EQUITY 1,598,282,000
PREMIUMS 1,257,077,000
INVESTMENT INCOME 16,512,000
INVESTMENT GAINS 35,743,000
OTHER INCOME 0
BENEFITS 59,531,000
UNDERWRITING AMORTIZATION 0
UNDERWRITING OTHER 0
INCOME PRETAX 149,371,000
INCOME TAX 59,300,000
INCOME CONTINUING 90,071,000
DISCONTINUED 0
EXTRAORDINARY 0
CHANGES 0
NET INCOME 90,071,000
EPS PRIMARY 1.69
EPS DILUTED 1.63
RESERVE OPEN 0
PROVISION CURRENT 0
PROVISION PRIOR 0
PAYMENTS CURRENT 0
PAYMENTS PRIOR 0
RESERVE CLOSE 0
CUMULATIVE DEFICIENCY 0