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§16-1. Persons who may convey - Married persons - Legal entities. - A. Any person at least eighteen (18) years of age,...
§16-2. Witness not necessary. - No subscribing witness shall be necessary to the validity of...
§16-3. Attorney-in-fact. - Any instrument affecting real estate may be made by an...
§16-4. Necessity of writing and signing - Veterans' loans - Homestead - Joinder of husband and wife - Effect of record for 10 years. - A. No deed, mortgage, or conveyance of real estate or...
§16-5. Validation of conveyances. - All deeds, mortgages and contracts relating to real estate or...
§16-6. When husband or wife may convey homestead. - Where the title to the homestead is in the husband,...
§16-7. Husband or wife of incapacitated spouse may sell, convey, lease or mortgage homestead held in joint tenancy. - In case of a homestead held in joint tenancy, if...
§16-8. Verified petition to be filed. - The applicant shall present and file in the district court...
§16-9. Copy of petition to be served. - At least thirty (30) days before the hearing of the...
§16-9.1. Notice of sale - Orders. - Any sale provided for in this act shall be conducted...
§16-10. Order of sale to be entered of record. - If the court shall make the order authorizing the sale...
§16-11. Estoppel by receiving benefits. - Any person or corporation, having knowingly received and accepted the...
§16-11A. Constructive mortgage - Exemptions. - All contracts for deed for purchase and sale of real...
§16-12. Officers' deeds recorded. - Deeds executed by any sheriff or other officer, for real...
§16-13. Conveyance of separate property. - A. The husband or wife may convey, mortgage or make...
§16-14. Terms defined. - The words "land," "real estate" and "premises" when used herein...
§16-15. Necessity of acknowledgment and recording - Condition for judgment lien to be binding against third persons. - Except as hereinafter provided, no acknowledgment or recording shall be...
§16-16. Instruments filed for record as constructive notice. - Every conveyance of real property acknowledged or approved, certified and...
§16-16.1. Filing of special improvement district assessment in office of county clerk. - Within thirty (30) days after the effective date of this...
§16-17. After-acquired title. - All rights of a mortgagor or grantor in and to...
§16-18. Quitclaim conveys what. - A quitclaim deed, made in substantial compliance with the provisions...
§16-19. Warranty deed conveys what - Implied terms. - A warranty deed made in substantial compliance with the provisions...
§16-20. Power of attorney - Execution - Recording. - A power of attorney in fact for the conveyance of...
§16-21. Revocation of power of attorney. - No instrument containing a power of attorney for the conveyance,...
§16-22. Judgment for recovery of land - When effective against grantors. - In all cases where there is a recovery of land...
§16-23. Notice of suit to grantor. - In all cases where an action is brought against a...
§16-24. Defense by warrantor - Recovery by warrantee. - Where any grantor appears in any action to defend his...
§16-25. Failure to defend - Recovery. - If a warrantor or other person bound by a warranty...
§16-26. Acknowledgment before recording. - No deed, mortgage or other instrument affecting the real estate...
§16-27a. Instruments recorded for five (5) years valid notwithstanding defects - Evidence. - A. When any instrument shall have been recorded in the...
§16-28. Instruments to be printed or handwritten in English – Electronic filing. - A. No instrument affecting the title to real estate shall...
§16-29. Fee simple - Exception. - Every estate in land which shall be granted, conveyed or...
§16-30. Will recorded. - Any will, devising real estate or any interest therein, or...
§16-31. Judgment recorded. - Any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction...
§16-32. Minor may hold real estate - Estates to commence in future. - A minor may take and hold title to real estate,...
§16-33. Form of acknowledgment. - An acknowledgment by individuals of any instrument affecting real estate...
§16-34. Execution by mark. - When real estate is conveyed or encumbered by an instrument...
§16-35. Acknowledgment to be under seal - Before whom taken. - Every acknowledgment must be under seal of the officer taking...
§16-36. Legalizing acknowledgments heretofore taken. - In all cases where heretofore any county judge, register of...
§16-37. Foreign acknowledgments legalized. - All deeds, mortgages, oil and gas leases, powers of attorney...
§16-37a. Foreign acknowledgments validated. - All deeds, mortgages, releases, oil and gas leases, powers of...
§16-37b. Foreign execution and acknowledgments validated - Exceptions. - All deeds, mortgages, releases, oil and gas leases, powers of...
§16-38. Acknowledgments before deputy clerk of district court validated. - In all cases where heretofore any deputy clerk of the...
§16-39. Justice of the Peace - Acknowledgments validated. - In all cases where, prior to May 16th, 1913, any...
§16-39a. Record of deeds, mortgages, etc., where acknowledgment defective - Validation. - All deeds, mortgages, conveyances, or other instruments affecting the title...
§16-40. Form of warranty deed. - A warranty deed to real estate may be substantially in...
§16-41. Form of quitclaim deed. - A quitclaim deed to real estate may be substantially the...
§16-42. Form of sheriff's deed. - That from and after the passage of this act, a...
§16-43. Recording of instruments and judgments affecting real estate situated in more than one county. - When any instrument or judgment, affecting the title to or...
§16-53. Recorded signed documents - Rebuttable presumptions. - EVIDENTIARY EFFECT OF RECORDED DOCUMENT A. A recorded signed document...
§16-61. Definitions. - For the purposes of this act: (a) An interest in...
§16-62. Purchasers for value of real estate - Reliance upon status of title as reflected by county records and by decrees and judgements of courts. - (a) Any purchaser for value acquiring an interest in real...
§16-63. Notice of claim. - (a) The notice of claim required to be filed in...
§16-66. Purpose. - The Legislature deems that the needs of the society of...
§16-67. Claim and purchase of severed mineral interest through recorded affidavit of death and heirship. - A. After the date of death of a person who...
§16-68. Abolition of doctrine of constructive possession. - The doctrine of constructive possession is abolished only insofar as...
§16-71. Marketable record title defined. - Any person having the legal capacity to own land in...
§16-72. Title subject to certain interests and defects. - Such marketable record title shall be subject to: (a) All...
§16-73. Claims prior to date of root title as null and void. - Subject to matters stated in Section 2 hereof, such marketable...
§16-74. Filing of notice of claim - Disability or lack of knowledge - Thirty-year possession as deemed equivalent to filing notice. - (a) Any person claiming an interest in land may preserve...
§16-75. Contents and recording of notice - Sham legal process. - A. To be effective and to be entitled to be...
§16-76. Exceptions to application of act - Stray instruments - Root of title - Severed mineral interests. - A. Sections 71 through 80 of this title shall not...
§16-77. Operation of statutes of limitations or recording statutes unaffected. - Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to extend...
§16-78. Definitions. - (a) "Marketable record title" means a title of record as...
§16-79. Penalties for filing slanderous notices of claims - Quiet title action independent of criminal action. - A. No person shall use the privilege of filing notices...
§16-80. Construction. - This act shall be liberally construed to effect the legislative...
§16-82. Recording of affidavit - Rebuttable presumption. - An affidavit covering matters named in Section 83 of this...
§16-83. Matters to which affidavit may relate. - The affidavit may relate to the following matters: Age, sex,...
§16-84. Description of land - Recording fee - Indexing. - Every affidavit prescribed in Section 2 of this act shall...
§16-85. False statements - Penalties. - Any person who knowingly makes or causes to be made...
§16-86.1. Short title. - SHORT TITLE. Sections 1 through 7 of this act shall...
§16-86.2. Definitions. - DEFINITIONS. In the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act: (1)...
§16-86.3. Validity of electronic documents. - VALIDITY OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS. (a) If a law requires, as...
§16-86.4. Recording of documents. - RECORDING OF DOCUMENTS. (a) In this section, “paper document” means...
§16-86.5. Administration and standards. - ADMINISTRATION AND STANDARDS. (a) The Archives and Records Commission shall...
§16-86.6. Uniformity of application and construction. - UNIFORMITY OF APPLICATION AND CONSTRUCTION. In applying and construing the...
§16-86.7. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. - RELATION TO ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES IN GLOBAL AND NATIONAL COMMERCE ACT....
§16-87. Recordation of electronic documents in tangible form. - RECORDATION OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS IN TANGIBLE FORM. A. As used...
§16-91. Corporations may convey by attorney. - Corporations, as well as individuals, may make, acknowledge and deliver...
§16-92. Instrument by corporation valid. - Every instrument affecting real estate or authorizing the execution of...
§16-93. Manner of execution by corporation. - Every deed or other instrument affecting real estate made by...
§16-95. Acknowledgment by corporation - Form. - Every deed or other instrument affecting real estate, executed by...
§16-96. Mechanic's materialman's lien statement - Execution, attestation, seal or acknowledgement not required - Release. - Any lien statement authorized pursuant to the provisions of Sections...
§16-201. Citation. - This act may be cited as the Uniform Vendor and...
§16-202. Rights and duties of parties. - Any contract hereafter made in this state for the purchase...
§16-203. Uniform law. - This act shall be so interpreted as to effectuate its...