Sections 47-33b to 47-33l, inclusive, shall be liberally construed to effect the legislative purpose of simplifying and facilitating land title transactions by allowing persons to rely on a record chain of title as described in section 47-33c, subject only to such limitations as appear in section 47-33d.
(1967, P.A. 553, S. 10; P.A. 79-602, S. 49.)
History: P.A. 79-602 made no substantive change.
Cited. 183 C. 59; 219 C. 81; 239 C. 199.
Cited. 3 CA 550; 44 CA 683; 46 CA 525.
Cited. 34 CS 31.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 47 - Land and Land Titles
Section 47-1. - Fee simple an absolute property. Colonial grants valid.
Section 47-2. - Charitable uses.
Section 47-3. - Estate given in fee tail.
Section 47-4. - Rule in Shelley's case, and collateral warranties, abolished.
Section 47-5. - Requirements re conveyances of land. Conveyance pursuant to power of attorney.
Section 47-5a. - Persons before whom acknowledgment may be made.
Section 47-6. - Witnessing and acknowledgment of deeds of corporations and voluntary associations.
Section 47-6b. - Conveyances to nonprofit land-holding organizations.
Section 47-7. - Conveyances and releases executed outside this state.
Section 47-8. - Release of mortgage or lien in favor of state.
Section 47-9. - Deeds of railroad companies.
Section 47-11. - County clerk's certificates; recording in full not required.
Section 47-12. - Change in name or status of owner of real estate.
Section 47-12a. - Affidavit of facts relating to title or interest in real estate.
Section 47-13. - Conveyance of property acquired prior to change of name.
Section 47-14. - Joint tenancy; release or conveyance to other joint tenants.
Section 47-14a. - Joint tenancy in fee simple with survivorship.
Section 47-14b. - Conveyance or encumbrance by joint tenants.
Section 47-14c. - Conveyance by less than all joint tenants.
Section 47-14d. - Conveyance to one joint tenant by others.
Section 47-14e. - Mortgage or lease by joint tenants.
Section 47-14f. - Attachment of or lien on tenant's interest.
Section 47-14g. - Divorce or marriage dissolution of husband and wife joint tenants.
Section 47-14h. - Provisions applicable to joint tenancies with survivorship.
Section 47-14i. - Effect of death on contract by tenant to convey interest.
Section 47-14j. - Conveyance to effect change in interests among tenants.
Section 47-14k. - Applicability of statutes.
Section 47-15. - Certificate of taking land by appraisal to be recorded.
Section 47-16. - Lost deed of land in two or more towns, copy recorded.
Section 47-17. - Records of documents as notice of equitable rights.
Section 47-17a. - Private transfer fees.
Section 47-18. - Ownership of historic memorials.
Section 47-18a. - Notice of listing of historic structure on National Register of Historic Places.
Section 47-19. - Leases for more than one year.
Section 47-20. - Use of word “trustee” or “agent” in an instrument affecting real estate.
Section 47-21. - Deeds of land by persons ousted of possession, void.
Section 47-23. - Termination of parol leases for nonpayment of rent.
Section 47-24b. - Covenant that leased property is fit for habitation.
Section 47-24d. - Tenant's waiver of rights, when valid.
Section 47-25. - Right to light not gained by adverse possession.
Section 47-26. - No right to railroad, railway or canal land by adverse possession.
Section 47-28. - Admissibility of award of arbitrators as evidence.
Section 47-29. - Right of entry on land by assignee of reversion.
Section 47-30. - Ejectment. Set-off of defendant's improvements.
Section 47-31. - Action to settle title or claim interest in real or personal property.
Section 47-31a. - Petition to invalidate land record that was falsely filed or amended.
Section 47-32. - Several defendants may be joined.
Section 47-33. - Action to settle title to land belonging to estate of deceased person.
Section 47-33a. - Action on agreement to sell real estate.
Section 47-33b. - Marketable record title. Definitions.
Section 47-33c. - Chain of title for not less than forty years creates marketable record title.
Section 47-33d. - Interests to which title is subject.
Section 47-33e. - Prior interests void.
Section 47-33f. - Notice of claim filed within forty-year period.
Section 47-33g. - Contents of notice. Recording. Indexing.
Section 47-33h. - Excepted interests.
Section 47-33i. - Other statutes not affected.
Section 47-33j. - Notice not to be recorded to slander title. Damages.
Section 47-33k. - Construction.
Section 47-33l. - Forty-year period extended, when.
Section 47-33m. - Short title: Dormant Mineral Interests Act.
Section 47-33n. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Statement of policy.
Section 47-33o. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Definitions.
Section 47-33p. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Exclusions.
Section 47-33q. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Termination of dormant mineral interest.
Section 47-33r. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Preservation of mineral interest by notice.
Section 47-33s. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Effect of termination of mineral interest.
Section 47-33t. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Savings and transitional provisions.
Section 47-34. - Bounds between proprietors reestablished by Superior Court.
Section 47-34a. - Unlawful destruction, disturbance or removal of surveyor's marker or monument.
Section 47-35. - Tobacco poles deemed to be part of tobacco-curing structure.