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...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...

...en brought under such sections, and all liens, encumbrances, and charges upon such land shall be made only subject to such sections. If any involuntary interest in registered land has come into existence by executory devise, executory limitation, or otherwise since the issuing of any certificate of title, the registered owner or the person claiming such interest may apply to the court by petition, to which all perso...

...y 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 recorder's office, it may be w...

...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...

...onstructive, of any unregistered trust, lien, claim, demand, or interest. The knowledge that any unregistered trust, lien, claim, demand, or interest is in existence shall not of itself be imputed to such transferee as fraud. No unregistered estate, interest, power, right, claim, contract, or trust shall prevail against the title of a registered owner taken bona fide for valuable consideration or of any person bona ...

...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...

...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...

... executors, or holder of an involuntary lien or charge against the interest of any such heir or devisee or their heirs or devisees, or an heir, devisee, administrator, or executor of a deceased heir or devisee of such heir or devisee of a deceased registered owner, may at any time after the expiration of thirty days from such owner's death, if he died intestate, or from the probate of such owner's will and the electi...

... 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 common ...

...e, sum of money, or any other charge or lien, in favor of any encumbrancer or lien holder, the encumberer shall execute an instrument of encumbrance. Every mortgage deed and instrument of encumbrance shall contain a pertinent description of the land and an accurate statement of the interest intended to be mortgaged, charged, or encumbered, and when registered shall operate as a lien or charge upon and bind the land c...

...r 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 same is so...

...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...

...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 record and the volume and page where recorded, with the exact time of such recording. The recorder shall deliver such instrument after such record and notation to the party named ...