If an action is brought to recover any loss or damage occasioned solely by the registration of the land, or solely by the registration of any other person as the owner thereof, or if the action be brought for the recovery of any loss or damage occasioned solely by the omission, mistake or misfeasance of the registrar or the registrar's deputy, or of any examiner or of any court administrator, or of a deputy of the court administrator or examiner, in the performance of their respective duties, the commissioner of management and budget, in the commissioner's official capacity, shall be the sole defendant. If the action is brought to recover for any loss or damage occasioned either wholly, or in part, by the fraud or wrongful act of some person other than the officers herein named, or to recover for any loss or damage caused jointly by the fraud or wrongful act, and by the omission, mistake or misfeasance of the officers above named, or any of them, and of some other person, the commissioner of management and budget, in the commissioner's official capacity, and the other person shall be joined as defendants in it. In any action where there are defendants other than the commissioner of management and budget, no execution shall issue against the commissioner until execution against all other defendants against whom judgment has been recovered has been returned unsatisfied, either in whole or in part. An officer returning the execution shall certify on it that the amount still due upon the execution cannot be collected from them. The court, being satisfied as to the truth of the return, shall then order the commissioner of management and budget to pay the amount due upon the execution out of the general fund. The attorney general or, at the request of either the attorney general or the board of county commissioners of the county in which the land or a major part of it lies, the county attorney of that county shall defend the commissioner of management and budget in all these actions.
1982 c 396 s 68; 1986 c 444; 1Sp1986 c 3 art 1 s 82; 1Sp1989 c 1 art 11 s 11; 2003 c 112 art 2 s 50; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests
Chapter 508A — Registration Of Land Without Court Proceedings
Section 508A.01 — Registration; Purpose; Definition.
Section 508A.02 — Registered, Unregistered Land Subject To Same Incidents.
Section 508A.03 — Application.
Section 508A.04 — Titles Which May Be Registered.
Section 508A.05 — Applications; How Signed And Verified.
Section 508A.06 — Contents Of Application; Claimants' Rights, Privileges.
Section 508A.07 — Nonresident Applicant; Agent.
Section 508A.08 — Application; Land Included.
Section 508A.10 — Application To Examiner; Powers Of Examiner.
Section 508A.11 — Application Filed With Recorder; Abstract To Examiner; Fee.
Section 508A.12 — Examiner Of Titles; Deputies.
Section 508A.13 — Examiner's Reports.
Section 508A.14 — County Surveyor.
Section 508A.17 — Limitation On Actions.
Section 508A.21 — Cpt Application Withdrawal; Conversion To Full Registration.
Section 508A.22 — Examiner's Directive; Fees.
Section 508A.24 — Registration Runs With Land.
Section 508A.25 — Rights Of Person Holding Cpt.
Section 508A.30 — Registrar Of Titles.
Section 508A.31 — Registrar's Bond.
Section 508A.32 — Under Control Of Court; Affixing Seal.
Section 508A.321 — Appeal From Registrar's Decisions.
Section 508A.34 — Cpts; Entering And Binding.
Section 508A.349 — Official Signature Of Registrar Of Titles.
Section 508A.35 — Forms Of Cpt.
Section 508A.351 — Common Interest Community Certificate.
Section 508A.36 — Certificates And Copies As Evidence.
Section 508A.37 — Tract Indexes; Reception Books; Forms Of Records.
Section 508A.38 — Forms Of Records Adopted.
Section 508A.381 — Official Records; Compilation, Maintenance, And Storage Of Information.
Section 508A.39 — Notices After Registration; Service.
Section 508A.40 — Copy Of Cpt To Be Furnished To Owner.
Section 508A.421 — Exchange Cpt.
Section 508A.422 — Combined Certificate.
Section 508A.43 — Effective Date Of Cpt.
Section 508A.46 — Plats Of Registered Land.
Section 508A.47 — Registered Lands; Transfer, Surveys.
Section 508A.48 — Filed Instrument Affecting Title Is Notice.
Section 508A.49 — Interest Less Than Fee; Noticed By Memorial.
Section 508A.491 — Transfer Statement For Contract For Deed.
Section 508A.50 — Instruments To Have Name And Address.
Section 508A.51 — Voluntary Instrument.
Section 508A.52 — Conveyance; Cancellation Of Old And Issuance Of New Cpt.
Section 508A.53 — Transfer And Payment Of Taxes.
Section 508A.55 — Registration Of Mortgage; Memorial Entered On Cpt.
Section 508A.56 — Assignment And Discharge Of Mortgage.
Section 508A.57 — Foreclosure; Notice.
Section 508A.58 — Registration After Foreclosure; New Cpt.
Section 508A.59 — Registration Of Judgment Or Final Decree.
Section 508A.61 — Trust, Other Limited Deeds; New Trustee; Corporate Dissolution.
Section 508A.62 — Trustee's Conveyance.
Section 508A.63 — Registration Of Instruments Creating Liens; Judgments.
Section 508A.64 — Attachments; Liens.
Section 508A.65 — Plaintiff's Attorney; Name And Address Endorsed; Notice.
Section 508A.66 — Officer's Certificate For Registrar To Cancel; Lis Pendens.
Section 508A.67 — Acquiring Title By Action; New Cpt.
Section 508A.68 — Death Of Owner; Issuance Of New Cpts.
Section 508A.69 — Jurisdiction Of Court Not Impaired.
Section 508A.70 — Subsequent Adverse Claim, How Registered; Costs.
Section 508A.71 — Alterations; Court, Examiner's Order; New Certificate.
Section 508A.72 — Agency; Power To Be Registered.
Section 508A.73 — Eminent Domain; Reversion; Vacation.
Section 508A.76 — Registrar's Liability.
Section 508A.77 — Parties Defendant; Judgment; Execution.
Section 508A.78 — Liability Of Fund.
Section 508A.79 — Limitation Of Action.
Section 508A.80 — Fraudulent Instrument Or Entry; Penalty.
Section 508A.82 — Registrar Of Titles' Fees.
Section 508A.836 — Disposal Of Certain Affidavits.
Section 508A.84 — Instruments Of Encumbrance; Disposal.
Section 508A.85 — Changeover From Cpt To Certificate Of Title.