Oklahoma Statutes
Title 16. Conveyances
§16-80. Construction.

This act 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 1 of this act, subject only to such limitations as appear in Section 2 of this act.

Laws 1963, c. 31, § 10.

Structure Oklahoma Statutes

Oklahoma Statutes

Title 16. Conveyances

§16-1. Persons who may convey - Married persons - Legal entities.

§16-2. Witness not necessary.

§16-3. Attorney-in-fact.

§16-4. Necessity of writing and signing - Veterans' loans - Homestead - Joinder of husband and wife - Effect of record for 10 years.

§16-5. Validation of conveyances.

§16-6. When husband or wife may convey homestead.

§16-7. Husband or wife of incapacitated spouse may sell, convey, lease or mortgage homestead held in joint tenancy.

§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.

§16-14. Terms defined.

§16-15. Necessity of acknowledgment and recording - Condition for judgment lien to be binding against third persons.

§16-16. Instruments filed for record as constructive notice.

§16-16.1. Filing of special improvement district assessment in office of county clerk.

§16-17. After-acquired title.

§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.

§16-30. Will recorded.

§16-31. Judgment recorded.

§16-32. Minor may hold real estate - Estates to commence in future.

§16-33. Form of acknowledgment.

§16-34. Execution by mark.

§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.

§16-43. Recording of instruments and judgments affecting real estate situated in more than one county.

§16-53. Recorded signed documents - Rebuttable presumptions.

§16-61. Definitions.

§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.

§16-63. Notice of claim.

§16-66. Purpose.

§16-67. Claim and purchase of severed mineral interest through recorded affidavit of death and heirship.

§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.

§16-74. Filing of notice of claim - Disability or lack of knowledge - Thirty-year possession as deemed equivalent to filing notice.

§16-75. Contents and recording of notice - Sham legal process.

§16-76. Exceptions to application of act - Stray instruments - Root of title - Severed mineral interests.

§16-77. Operation of statutes of limitations or recording statutes unaffected.

§16-78. Definitions.

§16-79. Penalties for filing slanderous notices of claims - Quiet title action independent of criminal action.

§16-80. Construction.

§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.

§16-86.1. Short title.

§16-86.2. Definitions.

§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.

§16-96. Mechanic's materialman's lien statement - Execution, attestation, seal or acknowledgement not required - Release.

§16-201. Citation.

§16-202. Rights and duties of parties.

§16-203. Uniform law.