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Ohio Rev Code § 5302.222 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5302 | Statutory Forms of Land Conveyance|Section 5302.222 | Transfer of Deceased's Real Property; Recording; Affidavit of Confirmation.

Effective: January 30, 2014|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly|(A) The transfer of a deceased owner's real property or interest in real property as designated in a transfer on death designation affidavit provided in section 5302.22 of the Revised Code shall be recorded by presenting to the county auditor of the county in which the real property is located and filing with the county recorder of that county an affidavit of confirmation executed by any transfer on death beneficiary to whom the transfer is made. The affidavit of confirmation shall be verified before a person authorized to administer oaths and shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the death certificate for the deceased owner. The affidavit of confirmation shall contain all of the following information: (1) The name and address of each transfer on death beneficiary who survived the deceased owner or that is in existence on the date of death of the deceased owner. If a named beneficiary was designated as a transfer on death beneficiary solely in that person's capacity as a trustee of a trust and that trustee subsequently has been replaced by a successor trustee, the affidavit of confirmation shall include the name and address of the successor trustee and shall be accompanied by a copy of the recorded successor trustee affidavit described in section 5302.171 of the Revised Code.(2) The date of death of the deceased owner;(3) A description of the subject real property or interest in real property;(4) The name of each transfer on death beneficiary who has not survived the deceased owner or that is not in existence on the date of death of the deceased owner.(B) The affidavit of confirmation shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the death certificate for each transfer on death beneficiary who has not survived the deceased owner.(C) The county recorder shall record in the official records any affidavit of confirmation filed under this section.(D) Upon the death of any individual holding real property or an interest in real property that is the subject of a transfer on death designation affidavit as provided in section 5302.22 of the Revised Code, if the title to the real property is registered pursuant to Chapter 5309. of the Revised Code, the procedure for the transfer of the interest of the deceased owner to the transfer on death beneficiary or beneficiaries designated in the affidavit shall be pursuant to section 5309.081 of the Revised Code.(E) Any person who knowingly makes any false statement in an affidavit of confirmation is guilty of falsification under division (A)(6) of section 2921.13 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5302.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5302 | Statutory Forms of Land Conveyance|Section 5302.24 | Affect of Revised Code Sections 5302.22, 5302.222, and 5302.23.

Effective: March 14, 2017|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 232 - 131st General Assembly|Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B)(12) and (C) of section 5302.23 of the Revised Code, sections 5302.22, 5302.222, and 5302.23 of the Revised Code do not affect any deed that was executed and recorded prior to December 28, 2009, or any transfer on death beneficiary designation made, pursuant to section 5302.22 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to that date. If that deed or designation is valid on the day prior to that date, the deed or designation continues to be valid on and after that date. A grantee of that deed need not execute a transfer on death designation affidavit that designates the same transfer on death beneficiary or beneficiaries as in the deed unless the grantee chooses to do so.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.01 | Action to Quiet Title.

Effective: March 31, 1973|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 390 - 109th General Assembly|An action may be brought by a person in possession of real property, by himself or tenant, against any person who claims an interest therein adverse to him, for the purpose of determining such adverse interest. Such action may be brought also by a person out of possession, having, or claiming to have, an interest in remainder or reversion in real property, against any person who claims to have an interest therein, adverse to him, for the purpose of determining the interests of the parties therein.Whenever the state or any agency or political subdivision thereof has, or appears to have, an interest in real property adverse to the person in possession claiming the right thereto, the state or such agency or such political subdivision may be made a party in any action brought under this section.The clerk of the court shall cause to be recorded in the deed records of each county in which any part of the real property lies, a certified copy of the judgment or decree determining the interests of the parties. The usual fees of the clerk and recorder shall be taxed as part of the costs of the case.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.02 | Vendee May Recoup.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In actions to recover the purchase money of real estate by vendor against vendee, the vendee, notwithstanding his continued possession, may by way of counterclaim set up any breach of the covenants of title acquired by him from the plaintiff, and make any person claiming an adverse interest therein a party to the action. Upon the hearing, he may recoup against the plaintiff's demand the present worth of any existing lien or encumbrance thereon. If the adverse interest of the claimant is an estate in reversion or remainder, or contingent upon a future event, with his assent, the court of common pleas may order the vendee to surrender possession to his vendor upon the repayment of so much of the purchase money as has been paid, with interest, or direct the payment of the purchase money claimed in the action, upon the plaintiff's giving bond in double its amount with two or more sureties to be approved by the court, for the payment thereof with interest, if by reason of the defect the defendant or his privies are subsequently evicted.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.03 | Petition in Action for Land.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In an action for the recovery of real property, it is sufficient if the plaintiff states in his petition that he has a legal estate therein and is entitled to the possession thereof, describing it with such certainty as to identify the property, and that the defendant unlawfully keeps him out of the possession. It is not necessary to state how the plaintiff's estate or ownership is derived.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.04 | Answer to Action for Land.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In an action for the recovery of real property, it is sufficient if in his answer the defendant denies generally the title alleged in the petition, or that he withholds the possession. If he denies the title only, possession by him shall be taken as admitted. When he does not defend for the whole premises, the answer shall describe the particular part for which defense is made. The defendant also may set forth in his answer other grounds of defense and counterclaim, as in any other form of action.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.05 | Petition by Tenant Against Cotenant.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In an action by a tenant in common of real property against a cotenant, the plaintiff must state, in addition to what is required in section 5303.03 of the Revised Code, that the defendant either denied the plaintiff's right, or did some act amounting to such denial.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.06 | Recovery When Right Terminates During the Action.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In an action for the recovery of real property, when the plaintiff shows a right to recover at the time the action was begun, but during its pendency his right has terminated, the verdict and judgment must be according to the fact, and the plaintiff may recover for the withholding of the property.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.07 | Occupying Claimant Law.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In an action for the recovery of real property the parties may avail themselves of the benefit of sections 5303.08 to 5303.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.08 | Cases in Which Occupying Claimant Is Paid for Improvements.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A person who, without fraud or collusion on his part, obtained title to and is in the quiet possession of lands or tenements, claiming to own them, shall not be evicted or turned out of possession by any person who sets up and proves an adverse and better title, until the occupying claimant, or his heirs, is paid the value of lasting improvements made by the occupying claimant on the land, or by the person under whom he holds, before the commencement of suit on the adverse claim by which such eviction may be effected, unless the occupying claimant refuses to pay to the party establishing a better title the value of the lands without such improvements, on demand by him or his heirs, when such occupying claimant holds:(A) Under a plain and connected title, in law or equity, derived from the records of a public office;(B) By deed, devise, descent, contract, bond, or agreement, from and under a person claiming a plain and connected title, in law or equity, derived from the records of a public office, or by deed authenticated and recorded;(C) Under sale on execution against a person claiming a plain and connected title, in law or equity, derived from the records of a public office, or by deed authenticated and recorded;(D) Under a sale for taxes authorized by the laws of this state;(E) Under a sale and conveyance made by executors, administrators, or guardians, or by any other person, in pursuance of an order or decree of court, where lands are directed to be sold.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.09 | Title Under a Sale for Taxes.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In cases of lands sold for taxes the title by which the successful claimant succeeds against the occupying claimant is an adverse and better title under section 5303.08 of the Revised Code, whether it is the title under which the taxes were due and for which the land was sold, or any other title or claim. The occupying claimant holding possession of land sold for taxes, having the deed of a county auditor therefor, or a certificate of such sale from a county treasurer, or claiming under the person who holds such deed or certificate, has sufficient title to the land to demand the value of improvements under such section.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.10 | Entry of Claim Against Occupying Claimant.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The court rendering judgment against the occupying claimant in any case provided for in sections 5303.08 to 5303.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, at the request of either party, shall cause a journal entry thereof to be made, and the action shall then proceed as other civil actions.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.11 | Conduct of Case.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|For the trial of a question of fact remaining undisposed of, a jury shall be impaneled and sworn, and shall at once proceed to view the premises in question. After viewing the premises, the jury shall return to the courthouse and the trial shall proceed. After hearing the testimony produced by either party, the jury shall determine the rights of the parties under the direction of the court. From such view and the testimony, the jury shall ascertain and find in its verdict the reasonable value of permanent and valuable improvements made on the land previous to the occupying claimant's receipt of actual notice of the adverse claim of the plaintiff, the damages the land has sustained by waste, including the value of timber or other valuable material removed or destroyed, and the net annual value, rents, and profits of the land accruing after the occupying claimant received notice of claim by service of summons. The jury shall find the value of the land at the time the judgment was rendered with the improvements thereon, and its value without the improvements or damages sustained by waste, including the removal or destruction of the timber or other valuable material, and return its verdict in open court.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.12 | Setting Verdict Aside.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If either party is aggrieved by an assessment or valuation made by a jury under section 5303.11 of the Revised Code, he may apply to the court during the term at which the trial was had, by a motion to set aside the verdict, assessment, and valuation, and, upon good cause shown, it may set aside such assessment, valuation, and verdict, order a new valuation and another jury to be drawn, which shall proceed as provided in such section. Either party may challenge jurors as in other civil actions. If more than three witnesses are examined by either party on the same point in the same case, the judge may tax the costs of such additional witnesses to the party calling them.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.13 | Judgment and Execution on Verdict for Plaintiff.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If, under section 5303.11 of the Revised Code, the jury reports a sum in favor of the plaintiff in ejectment on the assessment and valuation of the valuable and lasting improvements, the assessment of damages for waste, and the net annual value of the rents and profits, the court shall render a judgment therefor, without pleadings, and issue execution thereon as in other cases. In such case, or in cases in which no such excess is reported, such plaintiff is barred from having or maintaining an action for mesne profits.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.14 | Proceedings if Verdict Is for Occupying Claimant.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If, under section 5303.11 of the Revised Code, the jury reports a sum in favor of the occupying claimant, on the assessment and valuation of the valuable and lasting improvements, deducting therefrom the damages, sustained by waste, together with the net annual value of the rents and profits which the defendant received after commencement of the action, the successful claimant, or his heirs, or, if they are minors, their guardians, may demand of the occupying claimant the value of the land without the improvements so assessed and tender a deed of it to him, or pay him the sum so allowed by the jury in his favor, within such reasonable time as the court allows.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.15 | Writ of Possession.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the successful claimant, his heirs, or their guardians, elect to, and do pay to the occupying claimant, the sum reported in his favor by the jury, within the time allowed therefor, then a writ of possession shall issue in favor of him, his heirs, or their guardians.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.16 | Election by Successful Claimant to Receive Value of Land.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the successful claimant, his heirs, or their guardians, elect to receive the value of the land without the improvements assessed under section 5303.11 of the Revised Code, to be paid by the occupying claimant, and tender a general warranty deed of the land conveying such adverse or better title, within the time allowed by the court for the payment of the money, and the occupying claimant refuses or neglects to pay it to him, his heirs, or their guardians within such time, a writ of possession shall be issued in favor of the successful claimant, his heirs, or their guardians.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.17 | Action by Occupying Claimant After Election.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When an application is made for the value of improvements to land, the occupying claimant or his heirs shall not be evicted from the possession of such land except as provided in sections 5303.15 and 5303.16 of the Revised Code. When an election has been made by the successful claimant, his heirs, or their guardians, to surrender the land, if the occupying claimant or his heirs, within the time allowed, pay into court its value, without improvements, thereafter they may bring suit in the courts which gave judgment of eviction, and obtain judgment for the title to the land, if it was not previously conveyed to such occupant.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.18 | Authority to Convey.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When two or more persons who own an interest in land become bound in writing for the sale and conveyance thereof, and one dies before the land is conveyed, the survivors, by petition against the purchaser, and the heirs or devisees of such deceased party, may be authorized to complete such contract.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.19 | Petition to Convey Land.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The petition provided for in section 5303.18 of the Revised Code must set forth the names of all the contracting parties, describe the lands contracted for, state the time the contract was made, that it has been fully performed by the purchaser, and have a copy of the contract annexed.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.20 | Judgment and Deed to Convey Land.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the court finds the allegations of the petition provided for in section 5303.18 of the Revised Code to be true, it may make an order authorizing the survivors to complete the contract by conveying the land. The deed shall recite the order, and shall convey as complete and perfect a title, and have the same effect, as if executed by all the owners.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.21 | Sale of Entailed and Other Estates.

Effective: October 14, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 115 - 115th General Assembly|(A) In an action by the tenant in tail or for life, or in an action by the grantee or devisee of a qualified or conditional fee, or of any other qualified, conditional, or determinable interest, or in an action by a person claiming under such tenant, grantee, or devisee, or in an action by the trustee or beneficiaries, if the estate is held in trust, courts of common pleas may, subject to division (B) of this section, authorize the sale of any estate, whether it was created by will, deed, or contract, or came by descent, when satisfied that such sale would be for the benefit of the person holding the first and present estate, interest, or use, and do no substantial injury to the heirs in tail, or others in expectancy, succession, reversion, or remainder. This division does not extend to estates in dower.(B) If an estate is held in trust and if the trustee is authorized by the trust instrument to sell real property, a court of common pleas shall not authorize the sale of the estate pursuant to division (A) of this section unless the trustee consents to the sale.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.211 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.211 | Estate Held in Trust Sale or Lease.

Effective: August 10, 1965|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 25 - 106th General Assembly|Where the estate sought to be sold or leased is held in trust under the jurisdiction of a probate court, an action may be brought by the trustee in the probate court of the county in which he was appointed or in which the estate subject to sale or lease or any part thereof is situated; and the sale or lease of such estate may be authorized by such court which shall have the same jurisdiction and power as is provided for courts of common pleas in sections 5303.21 to 5303.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code.If the action is brought in a county other than that in which the estate or a part thereof is situated, a certified transcript of the record of all proceedings had therein shall be filed with and recorded by the probate court of each county in which such estate or any part thereof is situated.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.22 | Petition and Defendants.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The petition for a sale of an estate described in section 5303.21 of the Revised Code shall contain a description of such estate, a clear statement of the interest of the plaintiff therein, and a copy of the will, deed, or other instrument of writing by which the estate is created. All persons in being who are interested in the estate, or who may, by the terms of the will, deed, other instrument creating the entailment or other estate, thereafter become interested therein as heir, reversioner, or otherwise, shall be made parties to the action. If the names or residence of persons who should be made parties are unknown to the plaintiff, that fact shall be verified by affidavit of the plaintiff, whereupon the sale may be ordered.