title conveyance

  • 41cloud on title — An outstanding claim or encumbrance which, if valid, would affect or impair the title of the owner of a particular estate, and on its face has that effect, but can be shown by extrinsic proof to be invalid or inapplicable to the estate in… …

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  • 42color of title — The appearance but not the reality in title. 27 Am J1st Improv § 11; that which gives the semblance or appearance of title, but is not title in fact that which, on its face, professes to pass title, but fails to do so because of a want of title… …

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  • 43worthier title doctrine — /wsrdiyar taytal/ At common law where testator undertook to devise to an heir exactly same interest in land as such heir would take by descent, descent was regarded as the worthier title and heir took by descent rather than by devise. Jones v.… …

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  • 44chain of title — The successive conveyances and devolutions of title, commencing with the patent from the government or some other source and ending with the conveyance or devolution to the person claiming title presently. Capper v Poulsen, 321 Ill 480, 482, 152… …

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  • 45deed of conveyance — noun a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it he signed the deed he kept the title to his car in the glove compartment • Syn: ↑deed, ↑title • Topics: ↑law,… …

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  • 46paper title — noun : a title to real property appearing on the face of a recorded instrument or of a conveyance or document used chiefly of a title that is defective …

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  • 47unity of title — n. Receiving an interest in property through the same conveyance or instrument. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …

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  • 48transfer of title — index conveyance Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 49root of title — The conveyance or instrument which begins the chain of a land title …

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  • 50ordinary conveyance — A voluntary deed as distinguished from a divesting of title by judgment of a court or a transfer directed by the court …

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