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Ohio Rev Code § 2729.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.05 | Deed Is Prima-Facie Evidence of Record of Sale by Order of Court.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When real estate has been sold by a sheriff, executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, receiver, trustee, master commissioner, special master, or other person appointed or authorized by the court, and the record of the action in which such sale was made, or the papers or accounts filed by an executor, or his successor, of a will authorizing a sale of real estate, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion, the deed for such property made by such sheriff, executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, receiver, trustee, master commissioner, special master, or other person appointed or authorized by the court is prima-facie evidence of the legality and regularity of such sale, and of the correctness of the proceedings in the action or proceeding by which the property was sold.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.06 | County Auditor's Deed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The deeds made by the county auditor of lands sold at delinquent or forfeited tax sales are not prima-facie evidence of title in the purchaser of such lands, nor is there any presumption in favor of such tax deeds or sales when the records of the sale and the proceedings upon which it was based have been lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.07 | Restoration of Will or Title to Real Estate.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the record of a deed or other instrument conveying title to real estate, authorized or required to be recorded, or a will and the probate thereof, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion, and the original of such deed or other instrument, or will and the probate thereof, or a certified copy thereof, cannot be found, any person claiming title to such real estate or any interest under such will may bring an action in the court of common pleas of the county in which the loss occurred to establish the fact of the existence, contents, and record of such deed or other instrument, or will and probate thereof, prior to such loss or destruction, and the decree in the case shall be entered in the office where the original record existed.Any person having or claiming an interest in such real estate or being in possession thereof, as well as the parties to such lost deed or other instrument or their privies, and all persons interested under such will, may be made parties defendant in such suit. Service of summons shall be made in the same manner as in other suits concerning real estate.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.08 | Costs of Proceedings.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The costs of the proceedings mentioned in section 2729.07 of the Revised Code shall be the same as are provided by law for like services in civil cases, and shall be paid out of the county treasury on the order of the court.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.09 | Restoration of Road Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When an application is filed in the court of common pleas by the board of county commissioners, showing that the records of specified roads of the county were lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion and that copies thereof or of some of them are in existence, and praying that the verity of such copies as are produced be ascertained and declared by the court, said court shall require notice to be given by publication for six weeks upon such days, not less than once a week, and in such newspapers as it directs, of the filing and prayer of such application, that it will stand for hearing upon some day fixed by the court, and requiring all persons interested to appear on such day and show cause why the the application should not be granted. The court shall cause a copy of such publication to be served at each occupied house on premises abutting on such roads, upon any person dwelling therein, and on the owner of each lot or tract of land abutting on the roads, or his agent, if he is found in the county, at least one week before the day fixed for such hearing.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.10 | Proceedings for Restoration of Road Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Upon the day fixed therefor, and upon such days thereafter as the court of common pleas directs by entry on its journal, the court shall proceed to hear and determine whether the papers produced before it pursuant to an application by a board of county commissioners under section 2729.09 of the Revised Code, or any of them, are accurate or substantial copies of the lost or destroyed records, fairly and honestly made. In considering the accuracy of such copies, the court shall hear any evidence which in its judgment clarifies the matter without regard to the ordinary rules of evidence. As often as the court finds any of such papers to be accurate or substantial copies of such records, the court shall enter such finding upon its journal and direct transcripts of such copies to be made by such person as it selects. As often as any of such transcripts are completed to the satisfaction of the court, an entry of that fact must be made upon its journal. Thereupon the clerk of the court of common pleas shall certify on such transcript that it has been approved by the court, and deliver it to the board. Transcripts so certified prima facie have the same effect as the originals from which the copies were made.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.11 | Costs of Transcripts.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The costs of making the transcripts mentioned in section 2729.10 of the Revised Code shall be fixed and allowed by the court of common pleas. Other costs under sections 2729.11 to 2729.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be the same as fixed by law for similar services, and all costs for restoring lost road records shall be paid by the county, except as provided in section 2729.12 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.12 | Proceedings When Copies in Existence.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If at any time after the filing of an application as provided in section 2729.09 of the Revised Code, and before the final determination thereof, it appears to the court of common pleas that any person has in his possession or under his control papers purporting to be copies of a lost road record, or the originals from which they were made, and such person refuses to produce them to the court, the court shall issue a rule requiring such person to show cause why he does not produce such papers and enforce it by proceedings for contempt as in other cases. If the production of such papers is ordered by the court, the party ordered to produce them shall pay all the costs under this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.13 | County Roads.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|As to every county road the records of which have been lost or destroyed, and which records are not reproduced under sections 2729.09 to 2729.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the center of the road as fenced on April 12, 1884, is prima facie the true center, and the width of such road is prima facie sixty feet.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.14 | Replacement of Lost Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the record, or any part thereof, of the proceedings, judgment, or decree in an action or other proceeding of a court in this state, in which a final judgment has been rendered, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion, upon the application of a party interested therein, such court may grant an order authorizing such record or part thereof to be supplied or replaced:(A) By a certified copy of such original record, or part thereof, when it can be obtained;(B) By a certified copy of the record in the supreme court of such original record of any action or proceeding removed to that court which remains recorded therein;(C) By the original pleadings, entries, papers, and files in such action or proceeding, when they can be obtained;(D) By an agreement in writing signed by all the parties to such action or proceeding, or by their representatives or attorneys, that a substituted copy of such original record is substantially correct.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.15 | Restoring Lost or Destroyed Records of Judgments.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the record or any part thereof of the proceedings, judgment, or decree in an action or other proceeding of a court in this state in which the final judgment has been rendered, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion, and such loss cannot be supplied or replaced as provided in section 2729.14 of the Revised Code, any person interested therein may make a written application to the court to which such record belongs, setting forth its substance, which shall be verified in the manner provided for the verification of pleadings in a civil action. Thereupon summons shall issue and actual service or service by publication shall be made upon all persons interested in or affected by such original judgment or final entry, in the manner provided by law for the commencement of civil actions, except that parties may waive the issuing or service of summons and enter their appearance to such application.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.16 | Hearing of Application.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|On the hearing of a written application mentioned in section 2729.15 of the Revised Code, without further pleadings, if the court finds that the record of the proceedings, judgment, or decree was lost or destroyed and that it can by the evidence produced find the substance or effect thereof material to the preservation of the rights of the parties thereto, it shall make an order allowing a record. Such record shall recite the substance and effect of the lost or destroyed record, or part thereof, shall be recorded in the court, and shall have the same effect as the original record, so far as concerns the rights of the parties making the application, persons served with summons, persons entering their appearance, or persons claiming under them by a title acquired subsequently to the filing of the application.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.17 | Evidence on Hearing.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Upon the hearing of a written application as provided in section 2729.16 of the Revised Code, the court may admit in evidence any complete or partial abstract of the record mentioned in section 2729.15 of the Revised Code, docket entries, or indexes, and other written evidence of the contents or effect of such records, and published reports concerning the actions or proceeding mentioned in section 2729.15 of the Revised Code, when the court is of opinion that such abstracts, writings, and publications were fairly and honestly made before the loss of such records occurred.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.18 | Limitation of Time.

Effective: March 17, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 412 - 116th General Assembly|When a lost or destroyed judgment or order is one to which either party has a right to appeal on questions of law, the time intervening between the filing of the application mentioned in section 2729.15 of the Revised Code and the final order of the court on the application shall be excluded in computing the time within which such appeal may be taken.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.19 | Costs of Restoring Lost Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The costs to be taxed upon an application to restore lost or destroyed records mentioned in section 2729.14 of the Revised Code shall be the same as provided for like services in civil actions. Where the record is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, civil commotion, or other cause, the cost of replacing and restoring it, as provided in sections 2729.14 to 2729.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be paid out of the county treasury on the order of the court.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.20 | Order for Restoration.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the original papers and records mentioned in section 2729.14 of the Revised Code have been saved from destruction, riot, civil commotion, or other cause and the appearance dockets have been destroyed, and when such saved records should be recopied, the court of common pleas may order its clerk to restore such original papers upon the appearance docket, and may order the recopying of the records, the replacing of the appearance docket, indexes thereto, and such matters as it deems necessary. The costs thereof shall be the same as are provided for like services in civil actions, and shall be paid out of the county treasury, on the order of the court.
Ohio Rev Code § 2729.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records|Section 2729.21 | Remedies Cumulative.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Remedies and rules of evidence provided by sections 2729.07 to 2729.20, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are cumulative to those otherwise provided by law.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.01 | Mandamus Defined.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Mandamus is a writ, issued in the name of the state to an inferior tribunal, a corporation, board, or person, commanding the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.02 | Courts Authorized to Issue Writ - Contents.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The writ of mandamus may be allowed by the supreme court, the court of appeals, or the court of common pleas and shall be issued by the clerk of the court in which the application is made. Such writ may issue on the information of the party beneficially interested.Such writ shall contain a copy of the petition, verification, and order of allowance.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.03 | Writ Does Not Control Judicial Discretion.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The writ of mandamus may require an inferior tribunal to exercise its judgment, or proceed to the discharge of any of its functions, but it cannot control judicial discretion.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.04 | Application for Writ.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Application for the writ of mandamus must be by petition, in the name of the state on the relation of the person applying, and verified by affidavit. The court may require notice of it to be given to the defendant, or grant an order to show cause why it should not be allowed, or allow the writ without notice.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.05 | Adequacy of Law Remedy Bar to Writ.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The writ of mandamus must not be issued when there is a plain and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of the law.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.06 | Peremptory Writ in First Instance.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the right to require the performance of an act is clear and it is apparent that no valid excuse can be given for not doing it, a court, in the first instance, may allow a peremptory mandamus. In all other cases an alternative writ must first be issued on the allowance of the court, or a judge thereof.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.07 | Allowance of Writ Entered on Journal.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The allowance of the writ of mandamus, and an order that the defendant, immediately upon service, do the act required to be performed, or, when an alternative writ is allowed, that he do the act or show cause before the court, at a specified time and place, why he does not do the act, shall be entered on the journal.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.08 | Service of Writ.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The writ of mandamus shall be served upon the defendant personally, by copy, by the sheriff or by a person specially authorized by the court or judge issuing the writ. Such officer or person must report his proceedings therewith to the court. When the service is made by a person not an officer, the return must be verified by his affidavit.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.09 | Pleadings - Effect.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|On the return day of an alternative writ of mandamus, or such further day as the court allows, the defendant may answer as in a civil action. If the writ is allowed by a single judge, said defendant may demur.The plaintiff may demur to the answer or reply to new matter therein, and the defendant may demur to the reply, as in a civil action.The pleadings have the same effect, must be construed, may be amended, and issues of fact made by them must be tried, and further proceedings thereon had, in the same manner as in civil actions.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.10 | Peremptory Writ Allowed on Failure to Answer.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If no answer is made to an alternative writ of mandamus, a peremptory mandamus must be allowed against the defendant.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.11 | Recovery of Damages.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If judgment in a proceeding for a writ of mandamus is rendered for the plaintiff, the relator may recover the damages which he has sustained, to be ascertained by the court or a jury, or by a referee or master, as in a civil action, and costs. A peremptory mandamus shall also be granted to him without delay.Such recovery of damages against a defendant is a bar to any other action upon such cause of action.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.12 | Costs Against Relator.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If judgment in a proceeding for a writ of mandamus is rendered for the defendant, all costs shall be adjudged against the relator.
Ohio Rev Code § 2731.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2731 | Mandamus|Section 2731.13 | Failure to Obey Writ.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a peremptory mandamus has been directed to a public officer, body, or board commanding the performance of a public duty specially enjoined by law, and the court finds that such officer, or a member of such body or board, without just excuse, refused or neglected to perform the duty so enjoined, such court may impose a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars upon such officer or member. Such fine shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which the duty should have been performed, and its payment is a bar to an action for any forfeiture or fine incurred by such officer or member by reason of such refusal or neglect.