Arkansas Code
Subtitle 2 - Real Property
Chapter 12 - Conveyances

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 18-12-101. Definition and applicability - (a) The term “real estate” as used in this act...

§ 18-12-102. Transfer by deed — Warranty - (a) All lands, tenements, and hereditaments may be aliened and...

§ 18-12-103. Restrictive covenants — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “restrictive covenant” means a...

§ 18-12-104. Execution of deeds - Deeds and instruments of writing for the conveyance of real...

§ 18-12-105. Estate of fee simple presumed - The term “heirs”, or other words of inheritance, shall not...

§ 18-12-106. Joint tenants with right of survivorship - (a) Interests in real property may be conveyed to two...

§ 18-12-107. Transfer fee covenants prohibited — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Association” means a...

§ 18-12-108. Scrivener's affidavits — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “scrivener's affidavit” means a...

Subchapter 2 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments

§ 18-12-201. Proof or acknowledgment as prerequisite to recording real estate conveyances - All deeds and other instruments in writing for the conveyance...

§ 18-12-202. Forms of acknowledgments — Validity — Acknowledgments of married persons - (a) (1) Either the forms of acknowledgments now in use...

§ 18-12-203. Officers authorized to take proof or acknowledgment of real estate conveyances - (a) The proof or acknowledgment of every deed or instrument...

§ 18-12-204. Attestation of acknowledgments - (a) In cases of acknowledgment or proof of deeds or...

§ 18-12-205. Certificate of acknowledgment - (a) Any court or officer that takes a proof or...

§ 18-12-206. Manner of making acknowledgment — Proof of deed or instrument — Proof of identity of grantor or witness - (a) The acknowledgment of deeds and instruments of writing for...

§ 18-12-208. Defects - (a) All deeds, conveyances, deeds of trust, mortgages, marriage contracts,...

§ 18-12-209. Recorded deed or written instrument affecting real estate - (a) Every deed or instrument in writing which conveys or...

Subchapter 3 - Fee Tail

§ 18-12-301. Considered life estate - In cases when, by common law, any person may become...

§ 18-12-302. Dissolution - (a) (1) Any estate which under the common law would...

§ 18-12-303. Rule in Shelley's Case abolished - (a) (1) The Rule in Shelley's Case is abolished and...

Subchapter 4 - Husband and Wife

§ 18-12-401. Deed between spouses - (a) A deed of conveyance of real property located in...

§ 18-12-402. Relinquishment of dower or curtesy in spouse's land - A married person may relinquish dower or curtesy in any...

§ 18-12-403. Conveyance, etc., of homestead - No conveyance, mortgage, or other instrument affecting the homestead of...

§ 18-12-404. Conveyance of interest of husband with mental illness and guardian appointed — Relinquishment of dower - In all cases under § 20-47-103 whereunder a husband is...

Subchapter 5 - Power of Attorney

§ 18-12-501. Acknowledgment and recording - (a) Every letter of attorney, containing a power to convey...

§ 18-12-502. Revocation - (a) (1) No letter of attorney, duly acknowledged or proved...

§ 18-12-503. Relinquishment of dower, curtesy, and homestead rights - (a) By joining with his or her spouse in the...

Subchapter 6 - Miscellaneous Conveyances

§ 18-12-601. After-acquired title - If any person shall convey any real estate by deed...

§ 18-12-602. Land in adverse possession - Any person claiming title to any real estate, notwithstanding there...

§ 18-12-603. Grants to two or more as tenancy in common - Every interest in real estate granted or devised to two...

§ 18-12-604. Deed to trustee or agent - (a) (1) The appearance of the words “trustee”, “as trustee”,...

§ 18-12-605. Deeds of administrators, executors, guardians, commissioners, and sheriffs - (a) (1) All deeds of conveyance made by an administrator,...

§ 18-12-606. Deed or patent by Governor - (a) In all cases in which, by the laws of...

§ 18-12-607. Sales of real estate by defunct corporations ratified - (a) All sales of real estate which was the property...

§ 18-12-608. Beneficiary deeds — Terms — Recording required - (a) (1) (A) A beneficiary deed is a deed without...

§ 18-12-609. Marketability of real property sold at tax sales - (a) The title to any real property located within the...

Subchapter 7 - Disbursement of Funds as Part of Real Estate Closing and Settlement Services Act

§ 18-12-701. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 18-12-702. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Available for immediate withdrawal...

§ 18-12-703. Closing and settlement services — Disbursement of funds — Penalties - (a) (1) No person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity...