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...(A) Every memorial, notation, or cancellation of such memorial or notation, made on any certificate of title or duplicate thereof that is kept by paper means shall be signed by the county recorder or the recorder's authorized deputy or clerk. (B) If a county recorder maintains registered land records by nonpaper means in the manner authorized by section 5309.031 of the Revised Code, the signature and seal of t...

...No petition, order, affidavit, certificate, registration, or other proceeding under sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be invalid by reason of any informality, mistake, or technical irregularity therein not affecting the substantial justice of the proceedings, or the substantial rights of any party in interest.

...If any person, whether grantor, grantee, mortgagor, mortgagee, lessor, lessee, or other person in interest, dies after the execution of any instrument affecting land and before registration thereof, the registration of such instrument may be proceeded with in accordance with sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and shall be valid notwithstanding such death.

...No title to registered real property in derogation of that of the registered owner shall be acquired by prescription or adverse possession.

...All charges upon registered land, or any interest in such land may be enforced as provided by law, except as provided by sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Voluntary transfer or encumbrance of a registered estate or any interest therein shall be made only as prescribed by sections 5309.02 to 5310.21 of the Revised Code, and by entry on the register of land titles. No estate, legal or equitable, in registered land, shall pass by a mere assignment or delivery of a duplicate certificate of title or other instrument. This section does not apply upon implementation of a res...

...No statutory or other lien except taxes and assessments, lawfully levied, and liens, claims, or rights arising or existing under the laws or constitution of the United States prior to October 4, 1933, shall affect the title to registered land, until after such lien is noted upon the registered certificate of title.

...All notices required under sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be served in the same manner as required by law for service of summons or like notices. In any suit or proceeding for registering land, or any interest therein, or lien thereon, or in relation to registered land, or any interest in, or lien or charge on such registered land, parties may waive notice and enter appearance as ...

...All books, blanks, papers, and other things necessary for administering this chapter and Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code, including, but not limited to, equipment, machines, and materials related to the registered land functions of a county recorder and the maintenance of registered land records by nonpaper means under division (A) of section 5309.031 of the Revised Code, shall be furnished by the board of county ...

...No record, instrument, paper, or other document required by this chapter or Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code to be filed or kept in the office of the county recorder, including, but not limited to, any registered land record maintained by nonpaper means under division (A) of section 5309.031 of the Revised Code, shall be taken or otherwise caused to be removed from the recorder's office except by a subpoena duces ...

... Except for registered land records maintained by nonpaper means under division (A) of section 5309.031 of the Revised Code, which shall be governed by the rules adopted under division (C) of that section, the court of appeals in any appellate district may prescribe rules of practice and procedure for the guidance of each county recorder, and the conduct of proceedings in the probate courts or courts of common pleas...

...No county recorder or deputy, while in office, shall directly or indirectly accept any employment, or be interested in fees arising from such employment, as attorney, agent, or otherwise, from an applicant to register land, or other person connected with or concerned in the registration of land, or any lien, or charge thereon, or other matter in any way connected with the registration of land.

...Every transferee, mortgagee, lessee, and encumbrancer of registered land or any part thereof, or any interest therein, holds his title or lien subject to the interests and estates, mortgages, encumbrances, and all liens and memorials which have been entered upon the registered certificate of title prior to such transfer of the land or mortgage, lease, or encumbrance thereof, unless it is expressly otherwise provide...

...The original certificate of title in the register of titles, any copy of it certified under the signature of the county recorder, and the owner's duplicate of the original certificate of title shall be received as evidence in all the courts of the state and shall be conclusive as to all matters contained in it, except as provided in this chapter or Chapter 5309. of the Revised Code. All subsequent certificates of...

...The county recorder and the probate court and the court of common pleas on the application of any party in interest, in any matter, suit, or proceeding in any way relating to registered land, or to any estate or interest therein, or lien or charge thereon, may compel by punishment as for a contempt the production and delivery to said recorder or courts of any duplicate or owner's certificate of title, duplicate or or...

...Upon the original registration of land, the clerk of the probate court or the clerk of the court of common pleas shall be paid one-tenth of one per cent of the assessed value of the land, on the basis of the last assessment for general taxation, for the purposes of an assurance fund.

...All money received by the clerk of the probate court or the clerk of the court of common pleas under section 5310.05 of the Revised Code shall be paid at least once a month to the treasurer of state, who shall, with the advice and approval of the secretary of state and the auditor of state, invest, reinvest, and keep invested such funds in bonds and securities of the United States, or of this state, or of any c...

...A person who, without negligence on the person's part, sustains loss or damage or is deprived of land or of any interest in land, after the original registration of land, by the registration of another person as owner of the land or of any interest in the land, through fraud, or in consequence of any error, omission, mistake, or misdescription in any certificate of title or in any entry or memorandum in the regi...

...If the action provided for in section 5310.07 of the Revised Code is brought to recover for loss or damage, or for deprivation of land or of any interest therein which arises wholly through any actionable fraud, negligence, omission, mistake, or misfeasance of the county recorder or his deputies, or of any examiner of titles, in the performance of executive or ministerial duties, or of any of the assistants or clerks...

...In all actions provided for in section 5310.07 of the Revised Code in which there are defendants other than the treasurer of state, and damages have been recovered, no final judgment may be entered against the treasurer of state until execution against the other defendants is returned unsatisfied in whole or in part, and the officer returning the execution certifies that the amount still due upon the execution cannot...

...The attorney general shall appear and defend all actions provided for in section 5310.07 of the Revised Code. If the funds in the assurance fund at any time are insufficient to pay any judgment in full, the balance unpaid shall draw interest at the legal rate of interest, and be paid with such interest out of the first funds coming into the fund.

...The assurance fund provided for in section 5310.05 of the Revised Code shall not be liable in any action to pay for any loss, damage, or deprivation occasioned by a breach of trust, whether express, implied, or constructive, by any registered owner who is a trustee. Final judgment shall not be entered against the treasurer of state in any action to recover from the assurance fund more than the fair market value of t...

... As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking 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 ...

...In every case in which payment has been made from the assurance fund provided for in section 5310.05 of the Revised Code by the treasurer of state, the state shall be subrogated to all rights of the plaintiff against any other parties or securities, and the treasurer of state and attorney general shall enforce such rights in behalf of the state. Amounts so recovered by the state shall be paid into the treasury of the...

...The income of the assurance fund provided for in section 5310.05 of the Revised Code shall be added to the principal and invested, until such fund amounts to three hundred thousand dollars, and thereafter the income of such fund shall be used to defray the expense of the administration of sections 5309.02 to 5310.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, instead of being added to the fund and accumulated.