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MN Stat § 507.411 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.411 — Corporate Change Noted In Assignment, Satisfaction, Or Release.

507.411 CORPORATE CHANGE NOTED IN ASSIGNMENT, SATISFACTION, OR RELEASE. When a change in the name or identity of a corporate mortgagee or assignee of the mortgagee is caused by or results from a merger, consolidation, amendment to charter or articles of incorporation, or conversion of articles of incorporation or charter from federal to state, from state to federal, or from one form of entity to another, a mortgage assignment, satisfaction, or release that is otherwise recordable and that specifies in the body of the instrument the merger, consolidation, amendment, or conversion event causing the change in name or identity is in recordable form. The assignment, satisfaction, or release is entitled to be recorded in the office of the county recorder or filed with the registrar of titles, without further evidence of corporate merger, consolidation, amendment, or conversion. For purposes of assigning, satisfying, or releasing the mortgage, the assignment, satisfaction, or release is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in it with respect to the corporate merger, consolidation, amendment, or conversion, and the county recorder and the registrar of titles shall rely upon it to assign, satisfy, or release the mortgage. History:  1991 c 4 s 1; 1991 c 144 s 2; 1993 c 6 s 1; 1995 c 92 s 1
MN Stat § 507.412 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.412 — Satisfaction Or Release By Fewer Than All Mortgagees.

507.412 SATISFACTION OR RELEASE BY FEWER THAN ALL MORTGAGEES. A real estate mortgage securing an undivided debt owned by more than one mortgagee or assignee, including joint tenants, may be satisfied or released by an instrument executed by any one of the mortgagees or assigns unless the mortgage specifically states otherwise. The debt is presumed to be undivided unless the mortgage specifically states otherwise. This section does not affect the rights or liabilities of the holders of the debt secured by the mortgage as among themselves. Unless the mortgage specifically states otherwise, this section does not permit fewer than all of the holders of a mortgage to assign, amend, extend, or foreclose the mortgage, or to discharge the secured debt, as distinguished from satisfying or releasing the mortgage. History:   1992 c 463 s 2
MN Stat § 507.413 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.413 — Authority Of Mortgagee Designated As Nominee Or Agent.

507.413 AUTHORITY OF MORTGAGEE DESIGNATED AS NOMINEE OR AGENT. (a) An assignment, satisfaction, release, or power of attorney to foreclose is entitled to be recorded in the office of the county recorder or filed with the registrar of titles and is sufficient to assign, satisfy, release, or authorize the foreclosure of a mortgage if: (1) a mortgage is granted to a mortgagee as nominee or agent for a third party identified in the mortgage, and the third party's successors and assigns; (2) a subsequent assignment, satisfaction, release of the mortgage, or power of attorney to foreclose the mortgage, is executed by the mortgagee or the third party, its successors or assigns; and (3) the assignment, satisfaction, release, or power of attorney to foreclose is in recordable form. The county recorder and registrar of titles shall rely upon this assignment, satisfaction, release, or power of attorney to foreclose to assign, satisfy, release, or foreclose the mortgage. (b) This section applies to any mortgage, assignment, satisfaction, release, or power of attorney to foreclose executed, recorded, or filed before, on, or after August 1, 2004. History:   2004 c 153 s 2
MN Stat § 507.42 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.42 — Certain Deeds Validated.

507.42 CERTAIN DEEDS VALIDATED. All deeds for the conveyance of real estate made and executed by a personal representative of the estate of a deceased person, pursuant to the order of any court of this state exercising probate jurisdiction authorizing and directing the making and execution of such instrument, where the execution thereof was otherwise valid, and in which instrument the description of the property conveyed does not correspond with the description set forth in the order of the court authorizing and directing the making and execution of such instrument, the same are hereby validated and legalized, and such conveyances are hereby made valid as to the property described in the order of the court authorizing and directing the making and execution of such instrument. History:  1975 c 347 s 9; 1995 c 189 s 8; 1996 c 277 s 1
MN Stat § 507.421 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.421 — Estates And Trusts; Conveyances, Satisfactions, Grants, And Releases.

507.421 ESTATES AND TRUSTS; CONVEYANCES, SATISFACTIONS, GRANTS, AND RELEASES. Subdivision 1. Made to estate or trust. A conveyance or grant of an interest in real or personal property made to the estate of a decedent, to the estate of a ward or conservatee, to the ward's or conservatee's guardian or conservator, or to a trust, including a trust in the form of a pension or profit-sharing plan, that names the estate, the guardian, the conservator, or the trust as the grantee of the interest, is a valid and effective conveyance or grant to the personal representative, to the ward or conservatee, or to the trustee of the trust, in like manner and effect as if the personal representative, ward, conservatee, or trustee had been named the grantee of the conveyance or grant. Subd. 2. Made by estate or trust. A satisfaction, release, conveyance, or grant of an interest in real or personal property that is made by an estate, a guardian, a conservator, or trust described in subdivision 1, that names the estate, the guardian, the conservator, or trust as the holder or grantor of the interest, and that is executed by the personal representative, ward, conservatee, or trustee authorized to execute the instrument, is a valid and effective satisfaction, release, conveyance, or grant of the interest, in like manner and effect as if the personal representative, guardian, conservator, or trustee had been named the holder or the grantor in the satisfaction, release, conveyance, or grant. History:  1998 c 262 s 8; 1999 c 11 art 4 s 3
MN Stat § 507.422 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.422 — Certain County Conveyances Validated.

507.422 CERTAIN COUNTY CONVEYANCES VALIDATED. No deed of conveyance of real estate made by a county in this state that has been of record with the county recorder or registrar of titles for more than five years shall be held invalid or void for failure to comply with the requirements of section 373.01, subdivision 1, clause (4). History:   2002 c 403 s 3
MN Stat § 507.45 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.45 — Residential Real Estate Closings.

507.45 RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE CLOSINGS. Subdivision 1. By whom; fee authorized. Residential real estate closing services may be provided and a fee charged by a licensed attorney, real estate broker, real estate salesperson, and real estate closing agent. Subd. 2. Notice of closing agent's fee. No charge for closing services, except a charge disclosed under Regulation Z, Code of Federal Regulations, title 12, part 226, and except a charge for which an estimate has been given pursuant to the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and regulations thereunder, may be made by a closing agent unless the party to be charged is informed of the charge in writing at least five business days before the closing by or on behalf of the party charging for the closing services. Subd. 3. Requirements for real estate personnel. If the closing services are to be provided by a real estate broker, real estate salesperson, or real estate closing agent, the following regulations shall apply. (a) The written contract for closing services shall state in at least 10-point type that the real estate broker, real estate salesperson, or real estate closing agent has not and, under applicable state law, may not express opinions regarding the legal effect of the closing documents or of the closing itself. (b) No closing fee may be charged in connection with the transfer of the legal or equitable ownership of a property if a closing is performed without either a mortgagee's or owner's title insurance commitment or a legal opinion regarding the status of title. Subd. 4. Choice of closer; notice. (a) No real estate salesperson, broker, attorney, auctioneer, builder, title agent, financial institution, or other person making a mortgage loan may require a person to use any particular licensed attorney, real estate broker, real estate salesperson, or real estate closing agent in connection with a residential real estate closing. (b) All listing agreements must include a notice informing sellers of their rights under this subdivision. The notice must require the seller to indicate in writing whether it is acceptable to the seller to have the licensee arrange for closing services or whether the seller wishes to arrange for others to conduct the closing. The notice must also include the disclosure of any controlled business arrangement, as the term is defined in United States Code, title 12, section 1602, between the licensee and the real estate closing agent through which the licensee proposes to arrange closing services. History:  1988 c 695 s 6; 1989 c 217 s 22; 1989 c 347 s 42; 1991 c 113 s 1; 1993 c 309 s 28; 2001 c 208 s 26; 2014 c 198 art 4 s 24
MN Stat § 507.46 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.46 — Certificate Of Translation Of Documents In Foreign Languages.

507.46 CERTIFICATE OF TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENTS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. Subdivision 1. Form of certificate. A county recorder or registrar of titles shall accept for recording a document that is not prepared in the English language, but is otherwise in recordable form, if there is appended to the non-English language document a translation of the document into the English language and a certificate of translation in substantially the following form: CERTIFICATE OF TRANSLATION State of Minnesota  County of .  I certify that the attached English language document is a complete and accurate translation of the attached document from the ................ language.  .  Signature of translator  .  Typed or printed name  .  Street Address  .  City, State, and Zip Code  .  Telephone number  .  Subscribed and sworn to before me this ....... day of ....................., 20.....  .  Notary public Subd. 2. Certificate as evidence. Any certificate of translation recorded under subdivision 1, or a certified copy, is admissible as evidence in any action involving the instrument to which it relates or the title to the real estate affected by the instrument and is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in it. History:  2002 c 403 s 4; 2008 c 238 art 3 s 14
MN Stat § 507.47 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.47 — Creation Of Servitudes By Common Owner.

507.47 CREATION OF SERVITUDES BY COMMON OWNER. An easement, condition, restriction, or other servitude that is imposed on real property by a recorded instrument and is not in violation of law or public policy, is valid notwithstanding the common ownership, when the easement, condition, restriction, or other servitude is imposed, of any of the real property burdened or benefited by the easement, condition, restriction, or other servitude. A conveyance of all or any portion of the real property includes the benefits and burdens of all easements, conditions, restrictions, or other servitudes validated under this section, except as provided by sections 500.20 and 541.023. The common law doctrine of merger, and not this section, applies whenever, after ownership of any of the real property is severed, all of the real property burdened or benefited by an easement, condition, restriction, or other servitude again is owned by a common owner. History:   2001 c 50 s 1
MN Stat § 507.48 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.48 — Bona Fide Purchasers Protected.

507.48 BONA FIDE PURCHASERS PROTECTED. An express trust not declared in the disposition to the trustee or a constructive or resulting trust does not defeat the title of a purchaser from the trustee for value and without notice of the trust, or the rights of a creditor who extended credit to the trustee in reliance upon the trustee's apparent ownership of the trust property. History:   2015 c 5 art 12 s 9
MN Stat § 507.50 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 507 — Recording And Filing Conveyances|Section 507.50 — Affidavit Of Custodian In Real Property Transactions.

507.50 AFFIDAVIT OF CUSTODIAN IN REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS. Subdivision 1. Form of affidavit for custodianship. An affidavit of a custodian or of custodians of a custodianship in support of a real property transaction may be substantially in the following form:     ) ss.   .    .   Signature of Notary Public or Other Official   Notary Stamp or Seal   This instrument was drafted by:    .     .    Subd. 2.Effect. An affidavit by the custodian or custodians under subdivision 1 is proof that: (1) the custodianship described in the affidavit is a valid custodianship; (2) either the custodianship has not terminated or been revoked or, if the custodianship has terminated or been revoked, the conveyance described in the affidavit is made pursuant to the provisions of the custodianship; (3) the powers granted the custodian or custodians extend to the real property described in the affidavit or attachment to the affidavit; (4) no amendment to the custodianship has been made limiting the power of the custodian or custodians to sell, convey, pledge, mortgage, lease, or transfer title to the real property described in the affidavit or attachment to the affidavit, if any; (5) the requisite number of custodians have executed and delivered the instrument of conveyance described in the affidavit; and (6) any necessary court approval of the transaction has been obtained. The proof is conclusive as to any party relying on the affidavit, except a party dealing directly with the custodian or custodians who has actual knowledge of facts to the contrary. Subd. 3. Recording. An Affidavit of Custodian or Custodians under subdivision 1 may be recorded in the office of the county recorder for any county or in the office of the registrar of titles for any county with respect to registered land described in the affidavit, or in the Certificate of Custodianship or Custodianship Instrument referred to in the affidavit, and may be recorded as a separate document or combined with or attached to an original or certified copy of a Certificate of Custodianship or Custodianship Instrument, and recorded as one document. Subd. 4. Application. (a) Subdivisions 1 to 3 apply to custodianship instruments whenever created or executed. (b) Subdivisions 1 to 3 apply only to custodianships established under a federal law or under a statute of this or any other state. Subdivisions 1 to 3 do not apply to custodianships governed by chapter 527 or by the similar laws of another state. History:   2015 c 5 art 12 s 11
MN Stat § 508.01 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 508 — Registration Of Land|Section 508.01 — Registration.

508.01 REGISTRATION. Real estate in this state may be registered under the provisions of this chapter in the manner herein provided. History:  (8247) RL s 3370; 1905 c 305 s 1; 1909 c 183 s 2
MN Stat § 508.02 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 508 — Registration Of Land|Section 508.02 — Registered Land; Same Incidents As Unregistered; No Adverse Possession.

508.02 REGISTERED LAND; SAME INCIDENTS AS UNREGISTERED; NO ADVERSE POSSESSION. Registered land shall be subject to the same burdens and incidents which attach by law to unregistered land. This chapter shall not operate to relieve registered land or the owners thereof from any rights, duties, or obligations incident to or growing out of the marriage relation, or from liability to attachment on mesne process, or levy on execution, or from liability to any lien or charge of any description, created or established by law upon the land or the buildings situated thereon, or the interest of the owner in such land or buildings. It shall not operate to change the laws of descent or the rights of partition between cotenants, or the right to take the land by eminent domain. It shall not operate to relieve such land from liability to be taken or recovered by any assignee or receiver under any provision of law relative thereto, and shall not operate to change or affect any other rights, burdens, liabilities, or obligations created by law and applicable to unregistered land except as otherwise expressly provided herein. No title to registered land in derogation of that of the registered owner shall be acquired by prescription or by adverse possession, but the common law doctrine of practical location of boundaries applies to registered land whenever registered. Section 508.671 shall apply in a proceedings subsequent to establish a boundary by practical location for registered land. History:  (8248) RL s 3371; 1905 c 305 s 2; 2008 c 341 art 3 s 2
MN Stat § 508.03 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 508 — Registration Of Land|Section 508.03 — Application.

508.03 APPLICATION. An application for registration may be made by any of the following persons: (1) the person or persons who singly or collectively own the land; tenants in common shall join in the application; (2) the person or persons who singly or collectively have the power of disposing of the land; (3) infants and other persons under disability, by their guardian duly appointed by the proper court in this state; (4) a corporation, by its proper officer, or by an agent duly authorized by the board of directors; (5) any executor, administrator or personal representative duly appointed by the proper court in this state; (6) a municipal corporation, by its mayor and city clerk, in the case of a city, after a resolution passed by its city council so directing, and by the county auditor and chair of the county board, in the case of a county, after a resolution passed by its county board so directing; (7) any person may make application when, for at least 15 years, the land has been in the adverse possession of the applicant or those through whom the applicant claims title; (8) a partnership by one or more of its general partners; (9) the state of Minnesota, by the county auditor and chair of the county board of the county in which the land is located, at the direction of the county board of such county, in the case of lands forfeited to the state for taxes, and held by it in trust for its taxing districts, or otherwise. This provision is in addition to all other laws by which the state may register the title to land. History:  (8249) RL s 3372; 1905 c 305 s 3; 1909 c 110 s 1; 1939 c 100 s 1; 1941 c 378 s 1; 1977 c 21 s 1; 1983 c 92 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 508.04 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 508 — Registration Of Land|Section 508.04 — Titles Which May Be Registered.

508.04 TITLES WHICH MAY BE REGISTERED. Subdivision 1. At least fee simple. No lesser estate than a fee simple, except an appurtenant easement as defined in subdivision 2, and no mortgage, lien, or other charge upon land, shall be registered, unless the estate in fee simple therein is registered; but the fact that the estate or interest of the applicant is subject to any outstanding lesser estate or to a mortgage or other charge or lien shall not prevent its registration, and when a dock or harbor line has been established by federal authority, the estate and interest of a riparian proprietor in the submerged lands lying between the original shore line and such established dock line may be registered under this chapter, subject to the rights of the state of Minnesota in its sovereign capacity in the same, and such registration shall not in any manner affect or change the rights of the state with respect to such lands. Subd. 2. Exception for appurtenant easements. An appurtenant easement over unregistered land may be registered when the fee simple estate to which it is appurtenant has been registered or is registered concurrently with the registration of such easement. The word "land" in this chapter, except as contained in sections 508.37 and 508.47, subdivisions 2 to 7, shall include those appurtenant easements designated in this subdivision and all requirements for the registration of land shall also apply to the registration of such an appurtenant easement. Such an appurtenant easement shall remain in full force and effect after registration until the filing on the certificate of title of an order of the court terminating the easement. History:  (8250) RL s 3373; 1905 c 305 s 4; 1915 c 242 s 1; 1927 c 112 s 1; 1939 c 100 s 2; 1977 c 21 s 2
MN Stat § 508.05 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 500 - 515B — Property And Property Interests|Chapter 508 — Registration Of Land|Section 508.05 — Application, How Signed And Verified.

508.05 APPLICATION, HOW SIGNED AND VERIFIED. The application shall be in writing and signed and verified by the applicant, or by an agent thereunto lawfully authorized in writing. If the application is signed and verified by any agent, except an officer of a corporation, the authority of such agent shall be executed and acknowledged in the manner required for the execution and acknowledgment of a deed and recorded with the county recorder for the county wherein the land is situated before the filing of the application. If the application is made by a corporation, it shall be verified by some officer of the corporation. If the applicant is married, the spouse of the applicant may assent thereto in writing by a duly acknowledged endorsement thereon, or by a separate instrument duly acknowledged and filed with the application, but otherwise the spouse shall be made a defendant and served with summons. History:  (8251) RL s 3374; 1905 c 305 s 5; 1935 c 16 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444