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...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...

... partially canceling the same, and the reasons therefor, stating the number of the new certificate for the transferred land. The county recorder shall maintain as active the transferor's registered and duplicate certificates for the residue of the land not transferred without issuing a new certificate to the transferor for the residue.

...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...

...No new certificate of title shall be entered, and no memorandum shall be made upon the register of any certificate of title by the county recorder in pursuance of any deed or other voluntary instrument, unless the owner's duplicate certificate is presented with such instrument, except in cases expressly provided for in sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or upon the order of the probate court...

...ther officer purporting to transfer or create a lien or charge upon any interest of such devisee or heir in such registered land or to authorize the same to be done, shall have any effect in law or equity to accomplish such purpose until the title of such heir or devisee is registered as provided in this section. An involuntary lien, charge, or lis pendens against the interest of a relict, heir, or devisee in the lan...

... will of a deceased registered owner of real property, or any right or interest therein, empowers the executor to sell, encumber or otherwise deal with such property, right, or interest, such executor need not be registered as the owner thereof; but any person who acquires title by virtue of the execution of such power may have such title registered, by application to and order of the probate court or the court of co...

...the last secured debt or obligation. Thereafter, as to subsequent bona fide purchasers, mortgagees, and other persons dealing with such land for value, the lien of such mortgage shall expire. The mortgage creditor, may, at any time within one year next preceding the expiration of such period of twenty-one years, refile in the county recorder's office the mortgage or a sworn copy thereof, together with an affidavit th...

...rance, or other instrument intended to create a lien upon or charge against registered land, as provided in section 5309.47 of the Revised Code, is filed in the county recorder's office, and the owner's duplicate certificate of title is produced, and it appears to the recorder that the person intending to create the lien or charge set forth in such instrument, has such right, and that the person in whose favor the sa...

...When any mortgage, lease, or other instrument affecting registered land, or any interest therein, is in duplicate, triplicate, or more parts, only one of the parts need be filed and kept in the county recorder's office, but the recorder shall note upon the register whether such instrument is in duplicate, triplicate, or more parts, and shall mark upon such other parts "mortgagee's duplicate," "lessor's duplicate," "l...

...The county recorder, upon the written request of a lessee, mortgagee, or encumbrancer, and payment of the proper fees, shall record the instrument filed in his office in volumes to be known respectively as "records of liens on registered land" and "record of leases on registered land," and shall note on such instrument and on the volume and folium of the register containing the certificate of title the fact of such r...

... the register in which the instrument creating the charge is registered, and in case of assignment by separate instrument, upon the original instrument. The recorder shall endorse on the instrument of assignment the exact time of filing and the volume and folium of the register in which the assignment is registered. If the original instrument of encumbrance, or one of the duplicates of the instrument, is recorde...

...When any registered mortgage, encumbrance, lien, charge, or lesser estate, vested, contingent, expectant, or inchoate, is satisfied, released, extinguished, or terminated, in any manner in whole or in part, the mortgagee, encumbrancer, assignee, owner of lesser estate, or his legal representative , holder of lien, or other person authorized to discharge or release such encumbrance, shall forthwith file with the count...

...No judgment or decree or order of a court shall be a lien upon or affect registered land, or any interest therein, until a certificate under the hand and official seal of the clerk of the court in which the case is entered, or of record, stating the date and purport of the judgment, decree, or order, or other action taken by the court, giving the number of the case, the full names of the parties, plaintiff and ...

...Whenever any transcript from the docket of a judge of a county court or mayor, or other officer or tribunal which may render judgments, is filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas for a lien, the party, or his agent or attorney, filing such transcript shall notify the clerk whether the land upon which the lien is sought is registered. If such land is registered, in addition to the fee required fo...

...ch land. No lien shall attach to or be created upon any registered land by reason of such attachment, levy, or seizure, or other action taken, until the filing of such certificate with the recorder and his notation thereof on the last registered certificate of title, any notice thereof, actual or constructive, to the contrary notwithstanding.

...Whenever a sheriff or other officer seizes or levies upon any registered land by virtue of an execution, order of attachment, or other writ issued to him from a county other than the county in which the land is situated, such sheriff shall forthwith file with the county recorder a certified copy of the writ, and the things such sheriff has done under such writ, and the return made by him as such sheriff thereon, whic...

...Whenever any attested account to obtain a mechanic's, material supplier's, or laborer's lien is filed in the office of the county recorder by which a lien is sought to be obtained upon any registered land, the county recorder shall forthwith make notation and enter a memorial thereof upon the folium of the register where the last certificate of title to the land is registered, stating the name of the claimant, amoun...

...No suit, action, or proceeding, pending in any court, affecting registered land or any interest therein or charge upon such land is lis pendens, or notice to any person dealing with such land, until a certificate of the pendency of such suit, bill, or proceeding, under the hand and official seal of the clerk of the court in which it is pending, is filed with the county recorder, and a memorial thereof entered by him ...

...The holder of any certificate of sale of registered land, or any interest therein, for any tax, assessment, or imposition, shall forthwith present such certificate to the county recorder, who shall thereupon enter upon the registered certificate of title of the land a memorial thereof, stating the amount and day of sale, the date of presentation, and shall enter upon the certificate of sale the date of presentation a...

...A tax deed of registered land, or an interest therein, issued in pursuance of any sale for a tax, assessment, or other imposition, shall have only the effect of an agreement for the transfer of the title upon the register. Before any person dealing with such land is affected by such tax deed such deed must be filed in the county recorder's office and a memorial of such filing be made by the recorder on the registered...

...In any suit or proceeding in any of the courts of record in this state in which registered land may be partitioned or sold, or the title to any part thereof, or to any interest in, or lien or charge upon such land may be transferred or affected by the orders or judgment of the court, no confirmation of such partition, sale, or transfer shall be made by the court, or decree settling or affecting title entered, until t...

...On the confirmation of the report of commissioners setting off registered lands in proceedings for partition, the parties to whom the lands are allotted shall cause a certified copy of the judgment or decree to be filed with the county recorder. Thereupon the recorder shall transfer such lands upon the register and issue new certificates of title to the respective allottees. Title in severalty shall not vest until su...

...m of the partition upon the instrument creating such lien or other interest before a new certificate of title shall issue to the allottee.