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Ohio Rev Code § 5307.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5307 | Partition|Section 5307.20 | Powers of Foreign Guardian.

Effective: August 7, 2007|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 53 - 127th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 5307.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5307 | Partition|Section 5307.21 | Actions by One Coparcener Against Another.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 matter to be made or done, concerning lands which have descended.
Ohio Rev Code § 5307.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5307 | Partition|Section 5307.22 | Partition of Property Belonging to Religious Corporations.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When two or more religious denominations, or other societies, or associations, have united in a corporation, and as such corporation acquire title to real estate in this state, and they subsequently agree to separate and form two or more corporations under the laws of this state, either corporation, after such separate organization, may file its petition for partition under section 5307.03 of the Revised Code of such property so acquired and held.
Ohio Rev Code § 5307.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5307 | Partition|Section 5307.23 | Partition of Property Belonging to Religious Societies.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When two or more religious societies or congregations, by gift or purchase have acquired land upon which to erect a house of public worship, and other buildings for church or school purposes, and for a cemetery, in common, and either of such societies or congregations desires to abandon the joint use of such house of worship, or other erections, it may commence an action for the partition of the use of such common property, except the cemetery, which may continue to be used in common.
Ohio Rev Code § 5307.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5307 | Partition|Section 5307.24 | Effect of Partition of Religious Property.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the court of common pleas finds that partition, in cases mentioned in section 5307.23 of the Revised Code, can be so made as to occasion no confusion or inconvenience to either 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 therewith.
Ohio Rev Code § 5307.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5307 | Partition|Section 5307.25 | Costs and Expenses to Be Equitably Taxed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 execution may issue therefor as in other cases.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.01 | Registration of Land Title Definitions.

Effective: March 30, 1999|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 83 - 122nd General Assembly|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 chapter and Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code.(E) "Housing accommodations" and "restrictive covenant" have the same meanings as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.02 | Jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas and the Probate Court.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 may select one or more from their own number who shall act as judges in land registration cases and matters. If the judges so selected are unable to perform the duties on account of interest, absence, or other disability, or in case of emergency, any other judge of the court of common pleas for the same county may perform them. The court of common pleas in any county may appoint one or more deputy clerks to assist the clerk in attending to land registration cases and matters. Such court may inquire into the condition of the title to all interests in land, legal or equitable, or any lien, charge, or encumbrance thereon, and make all orders, judgments, and decrees necessary to settle, as against all persons known and unknown, in being or unborn, such title, or interest, and all liens and encumbrances existing therein, and their order and preference, and remove clouds from such title and forever quiet and settle the title.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.03 | Powers of the County Recorder.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 in accordance with such sections.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.04 | Examiners of Titles - Qualifications, Bond, Duties.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The court of common pleas in each county shall appoint, subject to removal at any time by said court, one or more examiners of titles, who shall be officers of the court and competent attorneys at law with skill and experience in the examination of titles to real estate. Each examiner, before entering on the discharge of his duties, shall give a bond payable to this state for the use of whom it may concern, in an amount and with such sureties as are approved by a judge of said court, but in no case less than one thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the honest and faithful performance of his duties and the faithful accounting for and turning 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 exercise all powers and perform all duties of masters of chancery. No examiner of titles shall in any way represent any party in interest in any matters in any way relating to proceedings to register title to land, or any interest therein, or lien or charge thereon, or in any suit or proceeding relating to registered land.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.05 | Persons Permitted to Have Title to Land Registered.

Effective: February 1, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 279 - 124th General Assembly|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, registered in the county where the land is situated. A corporation may apply by its agent or attorney, authorized by vote of its board of directors, and any person under disability may apply by the person's legal guardian or trustee. All persons in whose behalf the application is made shall be named as the applicants or plaintiffs, except in cases mentioned in section 5309.66 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.06 | Estates or Interests Which May Be Registered - Procedure.

Effective: March 30, 1999|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 83 - 122nd General Assembly|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 or uses, springing or shifting uses, or other future estate, interest, or limitation, whether vested or contingent, is subject to any private easement or other estate or interest of any kind, or is subject to any mortgage, lien, or charge, each lesser estate, private easement, other estate or interest, mortgage, lien, or charge shall be noted on the certificate of title and duplicate of the certificate of title, except taxes not due, leases for less than three years, and restrictive covenants described in division (B) of section 5309.24 of the Revised Code. The title to the estate so registered and certified shall be subject only to the lesser estates, private easements, other estates or interests, mortgages, liens, and charges so noted, except as provided in section 5309.28 of the Revised Code. A perpetual leasehold, for purposes of this chapter and Chapter 5310. of the Revised Code, shall be treated as an estate in fee, and the possible reversion or remainder in fee under the leasehold shall be treated as the lesser estate.No parcel of land that lies partly in two or more counties shall be registered if one or more of the counties in which the parcel lies have abolished their land registration systems.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.07 | Tax Deed Entitled to Be Registered.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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-one years and have paid all taxes and assessments legally levied thereon for at least ten successive years next preceding the filing of the application.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.08 | Application to Register Title.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Application to register the title to land or to any interest therein shall be made by petition, as in the commencement of a civil action, filed in the probate court or court of common pleas of the county in which the land is situated. When the application is filed, the clerk of the probate court or the clerk of the court of common pleas shall forthwith file in the office of the county recorder of said county and in the office of the recorder of each county in which any part of the land lies a memorandum stating that application for registration has been filed, the date and place of filing, and a copy of the description of the land contained in the application. Such memorandum shall be recorded and indexed by the recorder.The applicant may include in his application all lands in the county owned by him in fee, but when more than one distinct parcel of land is included, each separate parcel shall be separately described and numbered and the allegations and statements of fact made in reference to it as provided in section 5309.09 of the Revised Code. A public or private way, when the applicant owns the fee subject thereto, shall not be regarded as separating land into parcels.If more than one person joins in the application, each person must have 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.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.081 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.081 | Death of Survivorship Tenant Transfer of Interest.

Effective: August 19, 1992|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 280 - 119th General Assembly|When an interest in title to registered land is vested in two or more persons as a survivorship tenancy and one of the survivorship tenants dies, the interest of the decedent shall be transferred by presenting to the county auditor and filing with the county recorder either a certificate of transfer as provided in section 2113.61 of the Revised Code, or an affidavit accompanied by a certified copy of a death certificate and by an owner's duplicate of the relevant certificate of title. The affidavit shall certify that the owner of a survivorship tenancy interest in the title to a parcel or parcels of registered land has died and recite the names of the surviving tenants, the current residence address of each surviving tenant, the date of death of the decedent, a description of the land, and the number of the certificate of title where the land is registered. The county recorder shall register the title in the surviving tenants, upon a new folium in the register of titles; enter all memorials, notations, and memoranda to which the land is subject at the time of transfer; and issue a new certificate of title to the surviving tenants setting forth all of the information as to each required to be shown pursuant to section 5309.40 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.082 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.082 | Survivorship Tenant Medicaid Estate Recovery Form.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|(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 both of the following:(1) Whether the deceased survivorship tenant was either of the following:(a) A decedent subject to the medicaid estate recovery program;(b) The spouse of a decedent subject to the medicaid estate recovery program.(2) Whether the registered land under a survivorship tenancy was part of the estate of a decedent subject to the medicaid estate recovery program.(C) A county recorder shall obtain a properly completed form prescribed under division (B) of this section from the surviving tenant under a survivorship tenancy or the surviving tenant's representative and send a copy of the form to the administrator of the medicaid estate recovery program before registering the title in the surviving tenants under section 5309.081 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.10 | Assent by Spouse.

Effective: February 1, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 279 - 124th General Assembly|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 to the application of the other, the assent of the nonapplicant spouse is not necessary, and in that case the nonapplicant spouse shall be treated and named as a party defendant to the application.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.11 | Application by Nonresident.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 that such service on such agent shall have the same effect as if made on the applicant or owner personally within the state. Upon the death, removal, or incapacity of such agent for service, such nonresident shall appoint another in his stead and in default thereof the application may be dismissed.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.12 | Parties.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The applicant desiring to register the title to land or to any interest therein shall be regarded as plaintiff and all other persons named in the application and to be affected by the decree shall by name be entered in the caption of the petition and treated as defendants, and all persons not so named, whether mentioned in the application or not, shall be included and considered as defendants under the designation, which shall appear in the caption of the petition, "all other persons, if any, having any right or interest in or lien upon the lands, or any part thereof, described herein."When the names of any persons or heirs or devisees of a deceased person, necessary or proper to be made parties defendant to an application, are unknown to the applicant after diligent inquiry and research, the character and extent of which shall be stated, or if the applicant is unable to ascertain whether a person who is a necessary party is living or dead, or if dead whether he died testate or intestate, the applicant shall so state and allege in his application or any amendment thereof and such persons and their heirs or devisees shall thereupon be included and considered as defendants to such application under the term and designation, "all other persons, if any, having any right or interest in or lien upon land or any part thereof described herein," or under the designation, "unknown heirs, and devisees of __________" as the case may require, and notified by publication as provided in section 5309.15 of the Revised Code. When the place of residence or post-office address of any person, whose residence or post-office address is required to be given, is unknown, it shall be so stated and alleged, if the applicant also alleges that upon diligent inquiry and research, stating of what such inquiry and research consisted, he has been unable to ascertain such residence or address. Thereupon such person shall be notified by publication as provided in such section, as one whose residence and post-office address are unknown.If any person named as a defendant is known by the plaintiff to be under disability of any kind, that fact and the nature thereof, and the name, place of residence, and post-office address of the guardian or trustee of such person shall be stated in the application or an amendment thereof, or 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.
Ohio Rev Code § 5309.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5309 | Registration of Land Titles|Section 5309.13 | Record and Index of Applications.

Effective: January 30, 2014|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 72 - 130th General Assembly|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 shall make a memorandum stating the disposition of the case and shall send it to the county recorder, who shall record it in the official records.