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...One tenant in common, or coparcener, may recover from another tenant in common, or coparcener his share of rents and profits received by such tenant in common or coparcener from the estate, according to the justice and equity of the case. One coparcener may maintain an action of waste against another coparcener. No coparcener shall have any privileges over another coparcener, in any election, division, partition, or ...

...When two or more religious denominations, or other societies, or associations, have united in a corporation, and as such corporation acquire title to real estate in this state, and they subsequently agree to separate and form two or more corporations under the laws of this state, either corporation, after such separate organization, may file its petition for partition under section 5307.03 of the Revised Code of such...

...When two or more religious societies or congregations, by gift or purchase have acquired land upon which to erect a house of public worship, and other buildings for church or school purposes, and for a cemetery, in common, and either of such societies or congregations desires to abandon the joint use of such house of worship, or other erections, it may commence an action for the partition of the use of such common pr...

...If the court of common pleas finds that partition, in cases mentioned in section 5307.23 of the Revised Code, can be so made as to occasion no confusion or inconvenience to either party in the separate use of the common property, it may order the partition thereof. The judgment shall specify for what purpose partition of the use is made, and how and for what purpose the use of the premises allotted to each party are ...

...Having regard to the interest of the parties, the benefit each may derive from a partition, and according to equity, the court of common pleas shall tax the costs and expenses which accrue in the action, including reasonable counsel fees, which must be paid to plaintiff's counsel unless the court awards some part thereof to other counsel for services in the case for the common benefit of all the parties; and executio...

...As used in this chapter and Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code: (A) "Certificate of title" includes all memorials and notations noted under a certificate of title. (B) "Trust deed in the nature of a mortgage" is a mortgage and subject to the same rules as a mortgage. (C) "Probate court" has the same meaning as in section 2101.01 of the Revised Code. (D) "Registered land" means any land registered under this chapte...

...ers arising under sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The probate court shall have all the powers at law and in equity of a court of general jurisdiction as to such matters. In counties having three or more judges of the court of common pleas, such judges may select one or more from their own number who shall act as judges in land registration cases and matters. If the judges so selected are...

...To carry out sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the county recorder may administer oaths, issue subpoenas, summons, and other process, serve and cause notices to be served, enforce the attendance of and examine witnesses, compel the production of papers and evidence, order surveys and appoint competent surveyors to make them, and conduct hearings and make such orders as are appropriate and i...

... provision of this chapter or Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code to the contrary, and in accordance with the rules adopted by the county recorder under division (C) of this section, the recorder may perform any of the following functions by nonpaper means: (1) Transcribe 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; (2) Enter any me...

...The court of common pleas in each county shall appoint, subject to removal at any time by said court, one or more examiners of titles, who shall be officers of the court and competent attorneys at law with skill and experience in the examination of titles to real estate. Each examiner, before entering on the discharge of his duties, shall give a bond payable to this state for the use of whom it may concern, in an amo...

...The persons who, singly or collectively, claim to own and to be seized of, or to have the power of appointing or disposing of, the legal or equitable estate in fee in and to the whole of any parcel of land, may personally or through an attorney in fact, authorized by an instrument signed, acknowledged, and recorded as a deed, have their title to that estate in that land, or the whole title to that land, registere...

... purposes of this chapter and Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code, shall be treated as an estate in fee, and the possible reversion or remainder in fee under the leasehold shall be treated as the lesser estate. No parcel of land that lies partly in two or more counties shall be registered if one or more of the counties in which the parcel lies have abolished their land registration systems.

...No title derived from any tax sale or tax deed may be registered unless it appears that title under said tax sale or tax deed has been established and confirmed, or acquired, by a valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, or that the applicant and those from whom the applicant claims title have been in the actual, undisputed, and adverse possession of the land under such title for at least twenty...

...ate of transfer as provided in section 2113.61 of the Revised Code, or an affidavit accompanied by a certified copy of a death certificate and by an owner's duplicate of the relevant certificate of title. The affidavit shall certify that the owner of a survivorship tenancy interest in the title to a parcel or parcels of registered land has died and recite the names of the surviving tenants, the current residence addr...

...te" has the same meaning as in section 5162.21 of the Revised Code. "Medicaid estate recovery program" means the program instituted under section 5162.21 of the Revised Code. (B) The administrator of the medicaid estate recovery program shall prescribe a form on which a surviving tenant under a survivorship tenancy or such a surviving tenant's representative is to indicate both of the following: (1) Whether t...

...ctice under division (H)(9) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code. (G) Whether any other person to the knowledge or information of the applicant or owner or as shown by the records has or claims any interest in the lands, buildings, or improvements, either in law or equity, apparent or real, or in possession, remainder, reversion, expectancy, or otherwise; the name, place of residence, and post-office address of ea...

...If the application to register the title to land or to any interest in land is made by a married person, the spouse of that person shall signify the spouse's assent to the registration as prayed for by endorsement on the application acknowledged as a deed, or by a separate instrument so acknowledged and filed with the application. If the spouses are separated and living apart, or either one refuses to consent t...

...If the application to register the title to land or to any interest therein is made by a nonresident of the state, he shall, in his petition, or in a separate paper to be filed in the case, give the name, residence, and post-office address of someone residing in the state, upon whom, as his agent, service of notice can be made in relation to any matter arising under or in connection with said application, and agree t...

...publication as provided in section 5309.15 of the Revised Code. When the place of residence or post-office address of any person, whose residence or post-office address is required to be given, is unknown, it shall be so stated and alleged, if the applicant also alleges that upon diligent inquiry and research, stating of what such inquiry and research consisted, he has been unable to ascertain such residence or addre...

...After the filing of the application to register the title to land or to any interest therein and before registration, the land described in such application may be dealt with and instruments relating thereto may be recorded and indexed, in the same manner as if no such application had been filed. As soon as an application is disposed of, the clerk of the probate court or the clerk of the court of common pleas s...

...the notice provided for in section 5309.15 of the Revised Code. The examiner may require the applicant to file with him affidavits or other evidence relating to the title. Every report of an examiner shall be based upon a personal inspection and examination of the record or of a certified copy of the record of every instrument or proceeding affecting the title to said land for a period of at least seventy-five years ...

...vestigation authorized by section 5309.14 of the Revised Code, if, in the opinion of the examiner of titles, the applicant has a good title as alleged, and proper for registration, or if the applicant after an adverse opinion of the examiner elects to proceed further, the clerk of the probate court or the clerk of the court of common pleas shall, upon the filing of the examiner's report or the applicant's electi...

...of the notice set forth in section 5309.15 of the Revised Code shall be the third Saturday after the publication is completed. The probate court or the court of common pleas shall within seven days after the first publication of said notice in a newspaper, cause a copy of such published notice to be served on the defendants by registered letter, mailed by the clerk of the probate court or the clerk of the court of c...

...schedule of fees set forth in section 5310.15 of the Revised Code shall be determined by the court and paid as part of the costs in the case. Such guardian shall file an answer in the case and actively ascertain and protect, so far as is reasonably possible, the interests of all persons for whom he was appointed guardian for the suit and particularly represent, act for, and protect the interests and rights of all per...

... in the notice required by section 5309.15 of the Revised Code, may appear and file an answer or other pleas on or before the answer day, or within such further time as the probate court or the court of common pleas allows. Such answer shall state all objections to the application, shall set forth the interest claimed by the person who files it, and shall be signed and sworn to by him or by a person in his behalf . A...