Any contract hereafter made in this state for the purchase and sale of realty shall be interpreted as including an agreement that the parties shall have the following rights and duties, unless the contract expressly provides otherwise;
(a) if, when neither the legal title nor the possession of the subject matter of the contract has been transferred, all or a material part thereof is destroyed without fault of this purchaser or is taken by eminent domain, the vendor cannot enforce the contract, and the purchaser is entitled to recover any portion of the price that he has paid; or
(b) if, when either the legal title or the possession of the subject matter of the contract has been transferred, all or any part thereof is destroyed without fault of the vendor or is taken by eminent domain, the purchaser is not thereby relieved from a duty to pay the price, nor is he entitled to recover any portion thereof that he has paid.
Laws 1965, c. 92, § 2.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§16-1. Persons who may convey - Married persons - Legal entities.
§16-5. Validation of conveyances.
§16-6. When husband or wife may convey homestead.
§16-8. Verified petition to be filed.
§16-9. Copy of petition to be served.
§16-9.1. Notice of sale - Orders.
§16-10. Order of sale to be entered of record.
§16-11. Estoppel by receiving benefits.
§16-11A. Constructive mortgage - Exemptions.
§16-12. Officers' deeds recorded.
§16-13. Conveyance of separate property.
§16-16. Instruments filed for record as constructive notice.
§16-16.1. Filing of special improvement district assessment in office of county clerk.
§16-18. Quitclaim conveys what.
§16-19. Warranty deed conveys what - Implied terms.
§16-20. Power of attorney - Execution - Recording.
§16-21. Revocation of power of attorney.
§16-22. Judgment for recovery of land - When effective against grantors.
§16-23. Notice of suit to grantor.
§16-24. Defense by warrantor - Recovery by warrantee.
§16-25. Failure to defend - Recovery.
§16-26. Acknowledgment before recording.
§16-27a. Instruments recorded for five (5) years valid notwithstanding defects - Evidence.
§16-28. Instruments to be printed or handwritten in English – Electronic filing.
§16-29. Fee simple - Exception.
§16-32. Minor may hold real estate - Estates to commence in future.
§16-33. Form of acknowledgment.
§16-35. Acknowledgment to be under seal - Before whom taken.
§16-36. Legalizing acknowledgments heretofore taken.
§16-37. Foreign acknowledgments legalized.
§16-37a. Foreign acknowledgments validated.
§16-37b. Foreign execution and acknowledgments validated - Exceptions.
§16-38. Acknowledgments before deputy clerk of district court validated.
§16-39. Justice of the Peace - Acknowledgments validated.
§16-39a. Record of deeds, mortgages, etc., where acknowledgment defective - Validation.
§16-40. Form of warranty deed.
§16-41. Form of quitclaim deed.
§16-42. Form of sheriff's deed.
§16-53. Recorded signed documents - Rebuttable presumptions.
§16-68. Abolition of doctrine of constructive possession.
§16-71. Marketable record title defined.
§16-72. Title subject to certain interests and defects.
§16-73. Claims prior to date of root title as null and void.
§16-75. Contents and recording of notice - Sham legal process.
§16-77. Operation of statutes of limitations or recording statutes unaffected.
§16-82. Recording of affidavit - Rebuttable presumption.
§16-83. Matters to which affidavit may relate.
§16-84. Description of land - Recording fee - Indexing.
§16-85. False statements - Penalties.
§16-86.3. Validity of electronic documents.
§16-86.4. Recording of documents.
§16-86.5. Administration and standards.
§16-86.6. Uniformity of application and construction.
§16-86.7. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
§16-87. Recordation of electronic documents in tangible form.
§16-91. Corporations may convey by attorney.
§16-92. Instrument by corporation valid.
§16-93. Manner of execution by corporation.
§16-95. Acknowledgment by corporation - Form.