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...le in whole or in part as stated in his application, and proper for registration, then to the extent of the title so found a decree of confirmation and registration shall be entered, which shall have the effect of a decree in rem and, subject only to the exceptions stated in section 5309.28 of the Revised Code, shall bind the land and all interests and rights therein and liens and charges thereon. After the expiratio...

...urt, shall make and keep indexes of all applications and of all decrees of registration. (B) On and after March 30, 1999, a decree of registration in a land registration case shall not set forth pursuant to division (A) of this section any restrictive covenant that appears to apply to the land or any part of the land, if any inclusion of the restrictive covenant in a transfer, rental, or lease of housing accommodat...

...for the uncanceled certificates. If an application includes land lying in more than one county, the court shall cause the part lying in each county to be platted and described separately by metes and bounds or other definite description in the decree of registration; the clerk shall send to the recorder for each county a copy of the decree containing a plat and description of the land within that county; and the rec...

...upon it subsequent to the filing of the application, shall be subject to and shown by such order or decree of the probate court or the court of common pleas. Subsequent certificates relating to the same land shall be in like form, but shall be entitled "Transfer from No. ______" (the number of the last previous certificate relating to the same land), and also "Originally registered" (date, volume, and page of registr...

...If two or more persons are registered owners as tenants in common, or otherwise, of undivided interests in land, one owner's duplicate certificate of title may be issued for the whole land, or the owner of a separate or undivided interest may, upon the return and cancellation or proper notation upon the outstanding certificate, have a separate registration of his interest and a duplicate certificate of title issued ...

...d in the county recorder's office; (2) Taxes and assessments levied by the United States, this state, or any taxing district of this state; (3) Any highway, public way, or private way laid out or acquired by law or otherwise, unless the certificate of title states that the nonexistence of the way or the boundaries of the way, if any boundaries exist, have been determined by the court; (4) Any lease for a term not ...

...On and after the effective date of this section, no county recorder shall do any of the following: (A) Transcribe or bind in the register of titles and, if applicable, file a certified copy of a decree of registration sent by the clerk of a probate court pursuant to section 5309.25 of the Revised Code, if the decree sets forth any restrictive covenant that appears to apply to the land involved and any inclusion of t...

...The obtaining of a decree of registration and receiving a certificate of title is an agreement running with the land that the land shall, unless the owner complies with the provisions of section 5309.68 of the Revised Code or unless a resolution of abolition is implemented under section 5310.38 of the Revised Code, remain registered land and be subject to sections 5309.02 to 5310.21 of the Revised Code. Such agreemen...

...l take from the owner of any registered property, right, interest, lien, or charge, in every case in which it is practicable to do so, the owner's receipt or signature card, giving the residence and post-office address, for the certificate of title, or whatever paper is issued or delivered to or filed by the owner, signed by the owner in person and witnessed. If the receipt or signature card is signed in the rec...

...If a duplicate certificate of title is lost or destroyed, the owner, together with other persons having knowledge of the circumstances, may make affidavit before the county recorder, stating the facts of the case, the names and residences of the registered owners, and such other matters that the recorder requires. If the recorder is satisfied as to the truth of such affidavit, and the bona fides of the transaction, h...

...The county recorder shall keep books to be known as "records of surveys of registered land," in which the recorder shall accurately copy each survey ordered by the probate court or the court of common pleas in the original or any subsequent registration. The volume and page of such book where such survey is recorded shall be entered on the register of land titles on each certificate of title to said land thereafter i...

...(A) The county recorder shall keep tract indexes if the board of county commissioners orders the recorder to do so and provides the proper records for those indexes. In those indexes, the recorder shall enter the lands registered in the numerical order of the townships, ranges, and sections, or original surveys, and, in the case of subdivisions, the blocks and lots in the subdivisions; the name of the owners; and a r...

...Except in case of fraud, and except as provided in sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, no person taking a transfer of registered land, or any interest therein, or of any charge upon such land, from the registered owner, need inquire into the circumstances under which, or the consideration for which such owner or any previous registered owner was registered. Such transferee shall not be affect...

...Deeds and other instruments relating to registered land, which create or declare trusts, or contain unusual or exceptional covenants, restrictions, or conditions, or create unusual or exceptional interests, may, upon the demand of a party in interest and the payment of the proper fees, be recorded by the county recorder in books to be kept for that purpose in his office and known as the "record of trusts and excepti...

...Subject to division (E) of section 5309.281 of the Revised Code, if a memorial or notation has been entered as permitted by this chapter and Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code, the county recorder shall carry the memorial or notation forward upon all certificates of title until those certificates are canceled in some manner authorized by this chapter or Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code.

...er shall examine the county treasurer's tax duplicates and issue a certificate as to the taxes and special assessments shown thereon to be a lien upon the premises registered in said certificate of title. Such certificate as to taxes and special assessment shall show in whose name the premises are listed for taxation, the total sum due for taxes and special assessments, and what general taxes are a lien, as such ite...

...Each county recorder shall keep an entry book in which the recorder shall enter and number in the order of their reception all deeds and other voluntary instruments, all involuntary instruments, and copies of writs or other papers that are filed with the recorder and that relate to registered land. Except as provided in section 5309.281 of the Revised Code, the recorder shall note in the entry book the year, month, ...

...All duplicate certificates of title and all instruments and memorandums in any way affecting the title to registered land, surrendered to the county recorder for cancellation, and all other instruments, notices, and papers required or permitted under sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to be filed with the recorder, shall be filed under their proper file numbers of other designation and caref...

...A registered owner in fee of real property, in order to transfer the owner's whole interest in the property or in any part of the property or to transfer any undivided interest in the property shall execute to the intended transferee a deed or instrument of conveyance that, in case of transfer of the whole of the property, may be on the duplicate certificate of title. The deed or instrument of conveyance may be in an...

...In all cases in which a certificate of title, or any other instrument or memorandum affecting registered land, is wholly canceled, it shall be retained by the county recorder and filed in his office under its proper file number and carefully preserved. In all cases where part of the land described in a certificate of title is transferred, the county recorder shall issue a new certificate of title to the trans...

...No new certificate of title shall be entered or issued upon any transfer of registered land which does not divest the title in fee from the registered owner or some one of the registered owners. When a registered owner desires to transfer to another a lesser estate than the fee, as an estate for life, for years, or other term, or any other kind of lesser estate than a fee, he may do so by executing to the transferee ...

...If the county recorder is in doubt upon any question, or if any person in interest does not agree as to the proper memorandum to be made in pursuance of any deed, mortgage, or other voluntary instrument presented for registration, the question may, on the certificate of the recorder stating the question upon which the recorder is in doubt or upon which the person in interest does not agree, be referred to the court o...

...cree of registration under the original application, any subsequent registration which is procured by the presentation of a forged duplicate certificate, or of a forged deed or other instrument, shall be void. In case of the loss or theft of an owner's duplicate certificate, notice shall be sent by the owner, or by a person in his behalf, to the recorder of the county in which the land lies, as soon as the loss or th...

...ct thereunder, if he died testate, make application to the probate court or the court of common pleas for registration of the title of the deceased in such heirs and devisees according to their respective rights and interests. The application shall be sworn to and shall set forth the lands of which such registered owner died seized, giving reference to the certificate therefor, whether he left a will, and if so a cop...

...ower may have such title registered, by application to and order of the probate court or the court of common pleas made after notice to all persons in interest to be given by the clerk of said court by registered mail or otherwise as the court directs.