§ 34-4-23. Expiration of recorded instruments affecting real estate.
Any recorded contract or other instrument, other than housing restrictions as set forth in § 34-39.1-3, and conservation restrictions and preservation restrictions as set forth in §§ 34-39-3 and 34-39-4, which has created or shall create a right or obligation (other than an option) to purchase or sell real estate shall cease to be notice to any person or to put any person on inquiry with respect thereto unless, within ninety (90) days after the date therein provided for the delivery of the deed, or if no date is therein provided, then within ninety (90) days after the date therein provided for the payment of the final payment or instalment of the purchase price, or if no delivery date or payment date is therein provided, then within ninety (90) days after the date of the recording of the contract or other instrument, an action or proceeding shall have been commenced to enforce the contract or other instrument and a notice of the pendency of the action, containing a reference to the contract or other instrument and the book and page of the recording thereof and a description of the real estate sufficient to identify it, shall have been duly recorded. The ninety (90) day period provided for in this section shall not be extended by any disability, absence from the state, acknowledgement, or new promise not of record, payment after maturity, or for any other cause with the exception that the ninety (90) day period may be extended by agreement of all the parties to the contract or other instrument at the time of the execution of the contract or other instrument.
History of Section.P.L. 1965, ch. 133, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 213, § 1; P.L. 1987, ch. 480, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 368, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 464, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 34-4 - Estates in Real Property
Section 34-4-1. - Presumed death from absence of life tenant.
Section 34-4-2. - Grant for life with remainder to heirs in fee.
Section 34-4-2.1. - Reservation of life estate with enhanced powers.
Section 34-4-3. - Purported grant of estate greater than owned by grantor.
Section 34-4-4. - Expectant estates not dependent on precedent estates.
Section 34-4-5. - Bar of estates tail preserved — Defeat of expectancies provided for by grantor.
Section 34-4-6. - Trustee of timber land subject to life estate.
Section 34-4-9. - Management of proceeds of sale — Supervision by court.
Section 34-4-10. - Construction of amendment to § 34-4-9.
Section 34-4-11. - Conveyance of contingent, executory, and future interests.
Section 34-4-12. - Rights against lessee in remainderman taking precedent estate by merger.
Section 34-4-13. - Rights of entry not defeated by descent or discontinuance.
Section 34-4-14. - Liability of lands for debts of tenant in tail.
Section 34-4-15. - Conveyance of fee simple by tenant in tail.
Section 34-4-16. - Conveyance by life tenant and remainderman in tail.
Section 34-4-17. - Barring of equitable estates tail.
Section 34-4-18. - Right of grantee of equitable estate tail to conveyance of legal interest.
Section 34-4-19. - Limitation of possibilities of reverter and rights of entry.
Section 34-4-20. - Possibilities of reverter and rights of entry exempt from limitation.
Section 34-4-21. - Limitation of restrictive covenants.
Section 34-4-22. - Expiration of recorded options affecting real estate.
Section 34-4-23. - Expiration of recorded instruments affecting real estate.
Section 34-4-25. - Invalidity of certain restrictive covenants.
Section 34-4-26. - Expiration of recorded rights affecting real estate.
Section 34-4-27. - Title to real estate — Trusts.
Section 34-4-28. - Title to real estate — Trusts — Conveyance to named trust.