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...ate back so as to be operative from the time of filing the original conveyance in the county recorder's office.

...t is made by a separate instrument, the omission in the assignment, release, or cancellation of any part of the description does not invalidate that instrument.

...d as of a date forty years prior to the time when marketability is being determined. The effective date of the "root of title" is the date on which it is recorded. (F) "Title transaction" means any transaction affecting title to any interest in land, including title by will or descent, title by tax deed, or by trustee's, assignee's, guardian's, executor's, administrator's, or sheriff's deed, or decree of any court, ...

...person claiming such interest; or (B) Some other person from whom, by one or more conveyances or other title transactions of record, such purported interest has become vested in the person claiming such interest; with nothing appearing of record, in either case, purporting to divest such claimant of such purported interest.

...hich has been extinguished prior to the time of the recording by the operation of section 5301.50 of the Revised Code; (E) The exceptions stated in section 5301.53 of the Revised Code.

...ds upon any act, transaction, event, or omission that occurred prior to the effective date of the root of title. All such interests, claims, or charges, however denominated, whether legal or equitable, present or future, whether such interests, claims, or charges are asserted by a person sui juris or under a disability, whether such person is within or without the state, whether such person is natural or corporate, o...

...t be established or is uncertain at the time of filing the notice of claim for record. (B) If the same record owner of any possessory interest in land has been in possession of the land continuously for a period of forty years or more, during which period no title transaction with respect to such interest appears of record in his chain of title, and no notice has been filed by him on his behalf as provided in divisi...

...knowledge of the relevant facts or is competent to testify concerning them in court. (B) The notice shall be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of the county or counties where the land described in it is situated. The county recorder of each county shall accept all such notices presented that describe land situated within the county, and shall enter and record them in the official records of ...

...1.56 of the Revised Code; (B) Any easement or interest in the nature of an easement created or held for any railroad or public utility purpose; (C) Any easement or interest in the nature of an easement, the existence of which is clearly observable by physical evidence of its use; (D) Any easement or interest in the nature of an easement, or any rights granted, excepted, or reserved by the instrument creating such ...

... Revised Code, shall be construed to extend the period for the bringing of an action or for the doing of any other required act under any statutes of limitations, nor, except as provided in sections 5301.47 to 5301.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to affect the operation of any statutes governing the effect of the recording or the failure to record any instrument affecting land.

...Sections 5301.47 to 5301.56, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be liberally construed to effect the legislative purpose of simplifying and facilitating land title transactions by allowing persons to rely on a record chain of title as described in section 5301.48 of the Revised Code, subject only to such limitations as appear in section 5301.49 of the Revised Code.

... subject to the interest if the requirements established in division (E) of this section are satisfied and none of the following applies: (1) The mineral interest is in coal, or in mining or other rights pertinent to or exercisable in connection with an interest in coal, as described in division (E) of section 5301.53 of the Revised Code. However, if a mineral interest includes both coal and other minerals tha...

...removal of any improvement or fixture from such real property without the consent of the mortgagee, vendor under the land contract, or other person authorized to give such consent.

...For the purpose of ensuring adequate access of solar energy collection devices to sunlight, any person may grant a solar access easement. Such easements shall be in writing and shall be subject to the same conveyance and recording requirements as other easements. Any instrument that grants a solar access easement shall include: (A) A description of the real property burdened and benefited by the solar access easeme...

...f the areas that are appropriate at the time of creation of the conservation easement to achieve one or more of those purposes; and that includes appropriate provisions for the holder to enter the property subject to the easement at reasonable times to ensure compliance with its provisions. (B) "Agriculture" means those activities occurring on land devoted exclusively to agricultural use, as defined in section 5713....

...the Revised Code or that constitutes a homestead when the easement is granted. All conservation easements and agricultural easements shall be executed and recorded in the same manner as other instruments conveying interests in land.

...rporation may acquire conservation easements in the name of the state, the district, or the county, township, or municipal corporation in the same manner as other interests in land may be acquired under section 307.02, 307.18, 505.10, 505.261, 511.23, 717.01, 940.06, 1501.01, 1545.11, 6101.15, or 6119.111 of the Revised Code. Each officer, board, or authority acquiring a conservation easement shall name an appropriat...

...questions and concerns. If a meeting is timely requested under division (A)(2) of this section, the director shall not undertake the proposed acquisition or extinguishment until after the meeting has been concluded. The director, upon the director's own initiative and prior to the purchase of an agricultural easement under division (A)(1) of this section or the extinguishment of such an easement, may hold an informa...

... section 5713.30 of the Revised Code or entering into contracts to lease or rent the land or interests in land so held to persons or governmental entities who will use the land predominantly in agriculture.

...ate or lack of benefit to a particular dominant estate. Conservation easements are assignable to another entity authorized to hold conservation easements. Nothing in sections 5301.67 to 5301.70 of the Revised Code affects the enforceability of any article of dedication, restriction, easement, covenant, or condition that does not meet the requirements of those sections. The terms of a conservation easement may be en...

...is authorized to receive remuneration from a tenant under an agricultural lease agreement, and has entered into, or has actual or constructive knowledge of, an agricultural lease agreement. (4) "Tenant" means the person entitled under an agricultural lease agreement to use real property for agricultural purposes to the exclusion of all others. (B)(1) Notwithstanding anything in Chapter 1335. of the Revised Code, ...

...ronmental covenant is created. (C) "Common interest community" means a condominium, a cooperative, or other real property with respect to which a person, by virtue of the person's ownership of a parcel of real property, is obligated to pay property taxes or insurance premiums or to pay for maintenance or improvement of other real property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest community....

...real property that is the subject of an environmental covenant, may be a holder. An environmental covenant may identify more than one holder. (B) The interest of a holder is an interest in real property. However, a right of an agency under sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code or under an environmental covenant, other than a right as a holder, is not an interest in real property.

...ents for periodic reporting describing compliance with the environmental covenant; (2) A brief narrative description of contamination on the property and its remedy, including the contaminants of concern, the pathways of exposure, limits on exposure, and the location and extent of the contamination; (3) Limitations on amendment or termination of the environmental covenant in addition to those established in section...

...(A) A copy of an environmental covenant shall be provided to all of the following in a manner required by the applicable agency: (1) Each person that signed the environmental covenant; (2) Each person holding a recorded interest in the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant; (3) Each person in possession of the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant; (4) Each unit of loca...