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Section 47-1. - Fee simple an absolute property. Colonial grants valid. - Each proprietor in fee simple of lands has an absolute...
Section 47-2. - Charitable uses. - All estates granted for the maintenance of the ministry of...
Section 47-3. - Estate given in fee tail. - Each estate given in fee tail shall be an absolute...
Section 47-4. - Rule in Shelley's case, and collateral warranties, abolished. - All grants or devises of an estate in lands, to...
Section 47-5. - Requirements re conveyances of land. Conveyance pursuant to power of attorney. - (a) All conveyances of land shall be: (1) In writing;...
Section 47-5a. - Persons before whom acknowledgment may be made. - If the acknowledgment in a conveyance of real estate is...
Section 47-6. - Witnessing and acknowledgment of deeds of corporations and voluntary associations. - Conveyances of real estate made to or by any corporation,...
Section 47-6a. - Foreign business trust authorized to purchase, hold, transmit, make mortgages on, acquire and convey interests in real estate; filing of trust declaration. - A trust with transferable shares organized under the laws of...
Section 47-6b. - Conveyances to nonprofit land-holding organizations. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Nonprofit land-holding organization”...
Section 47-7. - Conveyances and releases executed outside this state. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1-36, any conveyance of...
Section 47-7a. (Formerly Sec. 47-58a). - Rights of aliens re real estate. Validation of real estate transfers to aliens. - (a) Any alien, whether or not resident in the United...
Section 47-7b. - Representation of interests of state when marketability of land titles threatened by claim of Indian tribe. - The General Assembly finds that the state has a significant...
Section 47-8. - Release of mortgage or lien in favor of state. - Any mortgage to, or lien in favor of, the state...
Section 47-9. - Deeds of railroad companies. - Whenever any railroad company makes and executes a deed in...
Section 47-10. - Conveyance to be recorded. Recorded conveyance not invalid or unenforceable if original documentation converted into digital or electronic form, lost or destroyed. - (a) No conveyance shall be effectual to hold any land...
Section 47-11. - County clerk's certificates; recording in full not required. - When any instrument affecting the title to real estate, executed...
Section 47-12. - Change in name or status of owner of real estate. - Any person, corporation, limited liability company or limited liability partnership...
Section 47-12a. - Affidavit of facts relating to title or interest in real estate. - (a) An affidavit, which states facts relating to the matters...
Section 47-12b. - Unlawful restrictive covenants void. Affidavit or form re unlawful restrictive covenants. - (a) For purposes of this section, “unlawful restrictive covenant” means...
Section 47-13. - Conveyance of property acquired prior to change of name. - Any person or corporation who conveys property acquired prior to...
Section 47-14. - Joint tenancy; release or conveyance to other joint tenants. - Section 47-14 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7095; 1959, P.A....
Section 47-14a. - Joint tenancy in fee simple with survivorship. - A conveyance of real estate or any interest therein by...
Section 47-14b. - Conveyance or encumbrance by joint tenants. - Subject to the provisions of section 47-14e, joint tenants may,...
Section 47-14c. - Conveyance by less than all joint tenants. - Except as otherwise provided in sections 47-14a to 47-14k, inclusive,...
Section 47-14d. - Conveyance to one joint tenant by others. - A release or other conveyance by all but one joint...
Section 47-14e. - Mortgage or lease by joint tenants. - A mortgage or lease executed by all of the joint...
Section 47-14f. - Attachment of or lien on tenant's interest. - During the life of any joint tenant his interest may...
Section 47-14g. - Divorce or marriage dissolution of husband and wife joint tenants. - Whenever a husband and wife are joint tenants in the...
Section 47-14h. - Provisions applicable to joint tenancies with survivorship. - All provisions of existing statutes applicable to joint tenancies are...
Section 47-14i. - Effect of death on contract by tenant to convey interest. - When any joint tenant enters into an enforceable contract to...
Section 47-14j. - Conveyance to effect change in interests among tenants. - Any change in the nature of the interests held by...
Section 47-14k. - Applicability of statutes. - The provisions of sections 47-14a to 47-14j, inclusive, apply to...
Section 47-15. - Certificate of taking land by appraisal to be recorded. - When any land or interest therein, incorporeal hereditament or right...
Section 47-16. - Lost deed of land in two or more towns, copy recorded. - When any conveyance of land, situated in two or more...
Section 47-16a. - Recording of certified copy of deed or other instrument recorded in land records of another town. - The town clerk of any town shall accept for recording...
Section 47-17. - Records of documents as notice of equitable rights. - An unacknowledged deed, and any instrument intended as a conveyance...
Section 47-17a. - Private transfer fees. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Person” means an...
Section 47-18. - Ownership of historic memorials. - The title and ownership of all memorials, tablets and markers,...
Section 47-18a. - Notice of listing of historic structure on National Register of Historic Places. - The record owner of any historic structure or landmark in...
Section 47-19. - Leases for more than one year. - No lease of any building, land or tenement, for life...
Section 47-20. - Use of word “trustee” or “agent” in an instrument affecting real estate. - The word “trustee” or “agent”, or the words “as trustee”,...
Section 47-21. - Deeds of land by persons ousted of possession, void. - Any conveyance or lease, for any term, of any building,...
Section 47-23. - Termination of parol leases for nonpayment of rent. - Section 47-23 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7107; P.A. 76-95,...
Section 47-23b to 47-23f, 47-24. - Security deposit refunds. Tenant not liable for rent while premises are untenantable. - Sections 47-23b to 47-23f, inclusive, and 47-24 are repealed. (1949,...
Section 47-24b. - Covenant that leased property is fit for habitation. - Section 47-24b is repealed. (1969, P.A. 390; P.A. 76-95, S....
Section 47-24d. - Tenant's waiver of rights, when valid. - Section 47-24d is repealed. (P.A. 73-238; P.A. 76-95, S. 26,...
Section 47-25. - Right to light not gained by adverse possession. - No occupant of real estate may acquire, by adverse occupation,...
Section 47-26. - No right to railroad, railway or canal land by adverse possession. - If the owner or occupant of any land adjoining any...
Section 47-27. - Title by adverse possession by or against railroad or street railway corporation, against nonprofit land-holding organization or against investor-owned water company. - (a) No length of possession, use or occupancy of land...
Section 47-28. - Admissibility of award of arbitrators as evidence. - No award of arbitrators, made since May 20, 1841, purporting...
Section 47-29. - Right of entry on land by assignee of reversion. - When, after an estate in real estate has been created...
Section 47-30. - Ejectment. Set-off of defendant's improvements. - Final judgment shall not be rendered, in any action to...
Section 47-31. - Action to settle title or claim interest in real or personal property. - (a) An action may be brought by any person claiming...
Section 47-31a. - Petition to invalidate land record that was falsely filed or amended. - (a) A person, as defined in section 42a-1-201, who has...
Section 47-32. - Several defendants may be joined. - In any action to quiet title to real estate or...
Section 47-33. - Action to settle title to land belonging to estate of deceased person. - (a) In any action brought to quiet the title to...
Section 47-33a. - Action on agreement to sell real estate. - (a) No interest in real property existing under an executory...
Section 47-33b. - Marketable record title. Definitions. - As used in sections 47-33b to 47-33l, inclusive: (a) “Marketable...
Section 47-33c. - Chain of title for not less than forty years creates marketable record title. - Any person having the legal capacity to own land in...
Section 47-33d. - Interests to which title is subject. - Such marketable record title is subject to: (1) All interests...
Section 47-33e. - Prior interests void. - Subject to the matters stated in section 47-33d, such marketable...
Section 47-33f. - Notice of claim filed within forty-year period. - (a) Any person claiming an interest of any kind in...
Section 47-33g. - Contents of notice. Recording. Indexing. - (a) To be effective and to be entitled to recordation,...
Section 47-33h. - Excepted interests. - Sections 47-33b to 47-33l, inclusive, shall not be applied to...
Section 47-33i. - Other statutes not affected. - Nothing contained in sections 47-33b to 47-33l, inclusive, shall be...
Section 47-33j. - Notice not to be recorded to slander title. Damages. - No person may use the privilege of recording notices under...
Section 47-33k. - Construction. - Sections 47-33b to 47-33l, inclusive, shall be liberally construed to...
Section 47-33l. - Forty-year period extended, when. - If the forty-year period specified in sections 47-33b to 47-33k,...
Section 47-33m. - Short title: Dormant Mineral Interests Act. - Sections 47-33m to 47-33t, inclusive, may be cited as the...
Section 47-33n. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Statement of policy. - (a) The public policy of this state is to enable...
Section 47-33o. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Definitions. - As used in sections 47-33m to 47-33t, inclusive: (1) “Mineral...
Section 47-33p. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Exclusions. - (a) Sections 47-33m to 47-33t, inclusive, do not apply to:...
Section 47-33q. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Termination of dormant mineral interest. - (a) The owner of the fee simple title to any...
Section 47-33r. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Preservation of mineral interest by notice. - (a) Any person claiming any kind of mineral interest may...
Section 47-33s. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Effect of termination of mineral interest. - A court order or decree terminating a mineral interest, when...
Section 47-33t. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Savings and transitional provisions. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in sections 47-33m to 47-33t,...
Section 47-34. - Bounds between proprietors reestablished by Superior Court. - When the boundaries of lands between adjoining proprietors have been...
Section 47-34a. - Unlawful destruction, disturbance or removal of surveyor's marker or monument. - (a) Any person who knowingly injures, destroys, disturbs or removes...
Section 47-35. - Tobacco poles deemed to be part of tobacco-curing structure. - Tobacco poles used in any structure utilized for the curing...
Section 47-36. - Federal claim or judgment to be recorded. - If the United States of America, or any official or...