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...The commissioner or commissioners shall set off to a widow her dower in the estate under section 5307.17 of the Revised Code. In the performance of that duty, the commissioner or commissioners shall be governed by, and the proceedings shall conform to, sections 5305.01 to 5305.22 of the Revised Code.

...ing proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to provide. The guardian of a minor or incompetent person, on behalf of the guardian's ward, may perform any act, matter, or thing respecting the partition of an estate which such ward could do under sections 5307.01 to 5307.25 of the Revised Code, if the ward were of ag...

...A person appointed according to the laws of any other state or country to take charge of the estate of an incompetent person not a resident of this state, upon being authorized in this state to take charge of such estate situated therein, may act in the partition of the estate the same as the guardian of an incompetent person is authorized to do by section 5307.19 of the Revised Code.

...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 ...

...ion 5307.03 of the Revised Code of such property so acquired and held.

...the partition of the use of such common property, except the cemetery, which may continue to be used in common.

...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 to be occupied. In no case shall such property, or any part thereof be occupied for any other purpose than the erection of a house of worship, and other erections connected therewi...

...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...

...Concurrent jurisdiction, except as otherwise provided, is hereby conferred upon the court of common pleas and the probate court in all maters 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 ...

...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...

...(A) Notwithstanding any 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 ...

...g over all papers, documents, money, or property which may come into his possession by virtue of his appointment. Such bond shall be filed with the clerk of the court of common pleas and recorded and shall then be deposited with the county treasurer who shall receipt to the clerk therefor by indorsement on the record of such bond. Said examiners may administer oaths, take testimony and other evidence, and generally e...

...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...

...No estate less than a fee simple and no mortgage, lien, or charge of any kind shall be registered unless the fee in possession, remainder, or reversion or other character of fee in and to the land has been registered first or is registered at the same time. If the estate of the applicant is subject to any outstanding lesser estate, including life estates, estates for years, conditional limitations, executory devises ...

...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...

...e a common and like interest in all the property included therein. If any separate parcel of land lies partly in two or more counties, the application may be filed in the probate court or the court of common pleas of any of such counties and the title registered in each county in which any part of such parcel of land lies, under the decree obtained in the court in which such application is filed.

...viving tenants setting forth all of the information as to each required to be shown pursuant to section 5309.40 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section: "Estate" 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 b...

...er 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 each person of that nature and the nature of the apparent or real interest so he...

...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...

...r reason given for the omission of such information. The probate court or the court of common pleas may order an application to be amended in any particular, not inconsistent with sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, but all amendments shall be in writing signed and sworn to the same as the original.

...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...

...Immediately after the filing of the application to register the title to land or to any interest therein, the probate court or the court of common pleas shall enter an order referring it to one of the examiners of titles, who shall search the records and investigate all facts stated and all allegations made in the petition, or otherwise brought to his notice. Such examiner shall investigate particularly whether the l...