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...(A) A deed, mortgage, land contract as referred to in division (A) (21) of section 317.08 of the Revised Code, or lease of any interest in real property and a memorandum of trust as described in division (A) of section 5301.255 of the Revised Code shall be signed by the grantor, mortgagor, vendor, or lessor in the case of a deed, mortgage, land contract, or lease or shall be signed by the trustee in the case of...

...A recorded grant, reservation, or agreement creating an easement or a recorded lease of any interest in real property shall contain a reference by volume and page to the record of the deed or other recorded instrument under which the grantor claims title, but the omission of such reference shall not affect the validity of the same.

...(A) As used in this section, "agency" means every organized body, office, or agency established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of state government. (B) Any instrument by which the state or an agency of the state acquires an interest in real property, including any deed, transfer, grant, reservation, agreement creating an easement, or lease, shall identify the agency for whose use and benef...

...The use of terms of inheritance or succession are not necessary to create a fee simple estate, and every grant, conveyance, or mortgage of lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall convey or mortgage the entire interest which the grantor could lawfully grant, convey, or mortgage, unless it clearly appears by the deed, mortgage, or instrument that the grantor intended to convey or mortgage a less estate.

..."Trustees," "as trustee," or "agent," or words of similar import, following the name grantee in any deed of conveyance or mortgage of land executed and recorded, without other language showing a trust or expressly limiting the grantee's or mortgagee's powers, or for whose benefit the same is made, or other recorded instrument showing such trust and its terms, do not give notice to or put upon inquiry any person deali...

...A deed, mortgage, or lease of any interest of a married person in real property shall be signed, acknowledged, and certified as provided in section 5301.01 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Discriminatory restrictive covenants in deeds limiting the transfer or lease of real property to individuals against whom discrimination is prohibited by division (H)(1) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code are void. If an attorney, in preparing a deed, discovers a discriminatory covenant that is void under this section, the attorney may omit the discriminatory restrictive covenant from the new deed with immuni...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Environmental covenant" means (a) A servitude that imposes activity and use limitations on real property and meets the requirements of section 5301.82 of the Revised Code; (b) A conservation easement or agricultural easement as defined in section 5301.67 of the Revised Code. (2) "Transfer" means the sale, gift, conveyance, assignment, inheritance, or other transfer of an ow...

...All deeds, mortgages, powers of attorney, and other instruments of writing for the conveyance or encumbrance of lands, tenements, or hereditaments situated within this state, executed and acknowledged, or proved, in any other state, territory, or country in conformity with the laws of such state, territory, or country, or in conformity with the laws of this state, are as valid as if executed within this state, in con...

...(A) As used in this section, "real property instrument" means a deed, mortgage, and installment contract, lease, memorandum of trust, power of attorney, or any instrument accepted by the county recorder under section 317.08 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) When a real property instrument is delivered to and accepted by the county recorder of the county in which the real property is situated, and is signed and acknowledge...

... No instrument conveying real property, or any interest in real property, and of record in the office of the county recorder of the county within this state in which that real property is situated shall be considered defective nor shall the validity of that conveyance be affected because of any of the following: (A) The dower interest of the spouse of any grantor was not specifically released, but that spouse exec...

... (A) No covenant, condition, or restriction set forth in a deed, and no rule, regulation, bylaw, or other governing document or agreement of a homeowners, neighborhood, civic, or other association, shall prohibit or be construed to prohibit any of the following: (1) The placement on any property of a flagpole that is to be used for the purpose of displaying the flag of the United States, the flag of the state as de...

...Sections 5301.01 to 5301.45 of the Revised Code do not affect the validity of any lease of lands appropriated by congress for the support of schools or for ministerial purposes for any term not exceeding ten years or of any other lands for any term not exceeding three years or require that lease to be acknowledged or recorded.

...In recognition that such leases and licenses create an interest in real estate, all leases, licenses, and assignments thereof, or of any interest therein, given or made concerning lands or tenements in this state, by which any right is granted to operate or to sink or drill wells thereon for natural gas and petroleum or either, or pertaining thereto, shall be filed for record and recorded in such lease record without...

...The plaintiff in an action to cancel a lease or license mentioned in section 5301.09 of the Revised Code, or in any way involving it, in order to finally adjudicate and determine all questions involving such lease or license in such action, need only make those persons defendants, so far as such lease or license is involved, who claim thereunder and are in actual and open possession, and those who then appear of reco...

...The lessee of a building which, without fault or neglect on his part, is destroyed or so injured as to be unfit for occupancy, is not liable to pay rent to the lessor or owner thereof, after such destruction or injury, unless otherwise expressly provided by written agreement or covenant. The lessee thereupon must surrender possession of such premises.

...When real estate is sold at tax sale, and the purchaser has received a deed therefor, and it has been placed upon the tax duplicate in his name, or those claiming under him, who openly and notoriously claim the title and ownership to such property, and pay the taxes thereon, as against any title acquired by deed executed after such tax sale, such facts are prima-facie evidence of the possession of such real estate b...

...All conveyances of real estate, or any interest therein, sold on behalf of the state shall be drafted by the director of administrative services, executed in the name of the state, signed by the governor, countersigned by the secretary of state, and sealed with the great seal of the state. The director of administrative services thereupon must record such conveyance in books to be kept by the director of administrati...

...When a title deed, recorded by the director of administrative services as required by section 5301.13 of the Revised Code, or recorded in the office of the secretary of state, the record of which is required to be kept in the office of the director of administrative services, has been lost or destroyed by accident, without having been recorded in the county recorder's office, on demand and tender of the fees therefor...

...When a deed executed for land purchase from the state is lost or destroyed, or when a person who has an interest in such land, by the use of diligence cannot find it, and no record exists from which a certified copy can be made to supply the evidence of such deed, or when a certificate of the purchase of land sold at a land office of this state, or any other contract, bond, or memorandum evidencing a purchase of land...

...When the purchaser of land from the state dies before a deed is made, and the lands pass to another by descent or devise, and the title still remains in him, or when the person to whom the lands have so passed has conveyed them or his interest therein to another person, by deed of general warranty or quitclaim, upon the proof of such facts being made to him and the attorney general, the governor shall execute the dee...

...When, from satisfactory evidence, it appears to the governor and attorney general that an error has occurred in a deed executed and delivered in the name of the state, or in the certificate of any public officer, upon which, if correct, a conveyance would be required from the state, the governor shall correct such error by the execution of a correct title deed, according to the intent and object of the original purch...

...All deeds executed under sections 5301.15, 5301.16, and 5301.17 of the Revised Code must recite the facts, as ascertained by the governor and attorney general, upon the proof of which they are executed, and shall be recorded in the office of the director of administrative services.

...When lands or tenements are mortgaged to the state to secure the payment of money due the state, and the money so secured, together with the legal interest due thereon, is paid to the treasurer of state, or other person authorized to receive it, the governor shall sign and deliver to the mortgagor, his heirs, or assigns, a deed of release of the real estate so mortgaged.

... When a conveyance of lands or tenements made to the state contains a condition that the real estate so conveyed shall revert to the grantor on the payment of a certain sum of money, or on the performance of other conditions, and the money, with legal interest thereon, from the time it was due or payable, is paid to the treasurer of state, or other person authorized to receive it, or the other conditions stated in su...