Public Records

Question 0

An interest in real property against the will of the owner, but without action my owner, according to Apparation, natural process, or adverse possession.

Accession, foreclosure, eminent domain, adverse possession

Answer 0

Involuntary alienation

Question 1

This is the most common way to transfer ownership of land. Owner undertakes of his or her free will and may be accomplished in the following ways.

Sale, gift, dedication, Grant

Answer 1

Voluntary alienation

Question 2

When a person dies with a will(testate), The property is transferred to his heirs (the devisee’s) as indicated in the will via.

Answer 2

Devise

Question 3

When a person dies without a will (intestate), his property descends to natural heirs or next of kin as provided for by state law via

Answer 3

Descent

Question 4

Provides constructive notice so that the public is able to determine who holds interest in any piece of property. Allows property owners to defend their state, right, or interest against third parties claiming a subsequent interest. Requires the knowledge meant of an authorized official, usually a Notory public.

Answer 4

Recording a document

Question 5

______Includes what someone personally saw, heard, read or observed.

Answer 5

ACTUAL NOTICE (aka actual knowledge)

Question 6

________ holds that everyone has ____ notice the recorded documents. Even if someone didn’t know about a particular recorded document, they could’ve found it by searching the public record.

Answer 6

Constructive notice (aka legal notice)

Question 7

A person has___ ____when there is an indication of a claim or other situation that would alert of reasonable person to further inquire about the title. Someone who does not find a claim against property through failure to look may still be held to have ____ ____of a claim.

Answer 7

Inquiry notice

Question 8

2 grantees figuratively race each other to the recorders office, and whoever the records a deed first as title to the property (assuming there is no notice). This notice rule only protect subsequent good-faith purchasers. If gift recipients don’t record their deeds, they may lose their interest in the land.

Answer 8

Race/ Notice Rules

Question 9

Documents involving creation, transfer, or encumbrance of an estate can be filed here.
A recording fee and an acknowledgement are required to record any document.

Answer 9

Public recorder’s office

Question 10

Also called grantor index, list all documents alphabetically by grantor’s last name

Answer 10

A direct index

Question 11

Also called grantee Index, list all documents by grantees last name.

Answer 11

Reverse index

Question 12

Lists recorded mortgage is, and whether or not they have been satisfied, by the property owner’s last name.

Answer 12

Mortgage index

Question 13

Also called a tax index, lists documents under tax parcel number of the property, the scooping together all recorded documents affecting that piece of property.

Answer 13

Sectional index

Question 14

The gaining of title to land by its addition to real estate already owned, through human actions a natural process.

Answer 14

Accession

Question 15

The gradual addition to dry land by forces of nature, as when tides deposits water-born sediment on the shoreline property.

Answer 15

Accretion

Question 16

The solid material deposited along the shoreline by accretion.

Answer 16

Alluvion

Question 17

A natural process in which Lanas removed from one person’s property and deposited onto another’s.

Answer 17

Avulsion

Question 18

An instrument convene public lands of an individual.

Answer 18

Land patent

Question 19

The gradual receding of water from Shoreline, exposing more of the waterbed. The exposed landmass becomes part of your property

Answer 19

Reliction

Question 20

Refers to someone who has died and left a will.

Answer 20

Testate

Question 21

Refers to someone who has died and has not left a will.

Answer 21

Intestate