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Blackacre, Whiteacre, Greenacre, Brownacre, and variations are the placeholder names used for fictitious estates in land.. The names are used by professors of law in common law jurisdictions, particularly in the area of real property and occasionally in contracts, to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of land.
Quaker Oats bought 19.11 acres (7.73 ha) of land in the Yukon Territory of Canada for the price of US$1000 and printed up 21 million deeds for one square inch (6.5 cm 2) of land. On advice of counsel, Quaker Oats set up and transferred the land to the Great Klondike Big Inch Land Company to make the company the registered owner and manager of ...
The Registry of Deeds has since 1708 dealt with the registration of wills, marriage settlements, title deeds, mortgage documents and other documentation concerning granting of title over land. It was originally set up to enforce the legislation regarding ownership of land by Catholics. A registered deed took precedence over an unregistered deed.
This is a deed "for which the grantor implies to have or have had an interest in the property but offers no warranties of title to the grantee." [2] Under common law, this type of deed technically created a use in the buyer who then gets the title. [3] Under the statute of uses, modern real property law disregards this subtle distinction.
A further exception is where the property is acquired under-value and only a fact and deed warrandice is granted under the disposition (covering (1), (2) and (3) below). Typically, when the Seller grants the disposition, the Seller therefore will warrant (i.e.: guarantee) the following four warranties: Absolute Good Title
Torrens title is a land registration and land transfer system in which a state creates and maintains a register of land holdings, which serves as the conclusive evidence (termed "indefeasibility") of title of the person recorded on the register as the proprietor (owner), and of all other interests recorded on the register.
A chain of title is the sequence of historical transfers of title to a property.It is a valuable tool to identify and document past owners of a property and serves as a property's historical ownership timeline.
A deed of trust refers to a type of legal instrument which is used to create a security interest in real property and real estate.In a deed of trust, a person who wishes to borrow money conveys legal title in real property to a trustee, who holds the property as security for a loan from the lender to the borrower.