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16 OK Stat § 16-12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-12. Officers' deeds recorded.

|Deeds executed by any sheriff or other officer, for real estate sold under execution, order of sale, or pursuant to any order or decree of court, shall be executed, acknowledged and recorded in the manner and with like effect as other deeds. |R.L.1910, § 1151.
16 OK Stat § 16-13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-13. Conveyance of separate property.

|A. The husband or wife may convey, mortgage or make any contract relating to any real estate, other than the homestead, belonging to him or her, as the case may be, without being joined by the other in such conveyance, mortgage or contract. |B. In the event a recorded conveyance of nonhomestead property has been executed by a married grantor without being joined by his or her spouse, said conveyance shall still be considered a valid conveyance of marketable title if one of the following instruments is placed of record:1. An affidavit executed by the nonjoining spouse stating that the property conveyed was nonhomestead property; or2. A conveyance executed by the nonjoining spouse, with or without others, relinquishing any claim to an interest in the property to the same grantee, or to a successor or successors in interest, with a recitation that the property was nonhomestead property.R.L.1910, § 1152. Amended by Laws 2019, c. 97, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
16 OK Stat § 16-14 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-14. Terms defined.

|The words "land," "real estate" and "premises" when used herein or in any instrument relating to real property, are synonyms and shall be deemed to mean the same thing, and unless otherwise qualified, to include lands, tenements and hereditaments; and the word "appurtenances" unless otherwise qualified shall mean all improvements and every right of whatever character pertaining to the premises described. |R.L.1910, § 1153.
16 OK Stat § 16-15 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-15. Necessity of acknowledgment and recording - Condition for judgment lien to be binding against third persons.

|Except as hereinafter provided, no acknowledgment or recording shall be necessary to the validity of any deed, mortgage, or contract relating to real estate as between the parties thereto; but no deed, mortgage, contract, bond, lease, or other instrument relating to real estate other than a lease for a period not exceeding one (1) year and accompanied by actual possession, shall be valid as against third persons unless acknowledged and recorded as herein provided. No judgment lien shall be binding against third persons unless the judgment lienholder has filed his judgment in the office of the county clerk as provided by and in accordance with Section 706 of Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |R.L. 1910, § 1154; Laws 1992, c. 119, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1992; Laws 1993, c. 351, § 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
16 OK Stat § 16-16 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-16. Instruments filed for record as constructive notice.

|Every conveyance of real property acknowledged or approved, certified and recorded as prescribed by law from the time it is filed with the register of deeds for record is constructive notice of the contents thereof to subsequent purchasers, mortgagees, encumbrancers or creditors. |R.L.1910, § 1155.
16 OK Stat § 16-16.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-16.1. Filing of special improvement district assessment in office of county clerk.

|Within thirty (30) days after the effective date of this act or after the formation of a new special improvement, protection, or conservancy district, the clerks and secretaries of all such districts shall record in the office of the county clerk of the county in which any part of the district is located a certified copy of the ordinance, resolution, or order of the court creating the district, and a plat of all parcels or tracts of land included in said district. If thereafter the boundaries of the district are enlarged or diminished by the creating authority, the clerk shall record a certified copy of the ordinance, resolution, or order of the court so enacted in the office of the county clerk within thirty (30) days after said enactment. The county clerk shall record the plat of the special district at such fees as provided by law for recording plats, and indicate the land affected on the numerical index. Liens for assessments levied thereafter by any such district shall not attach to the lands within the district until such ordinance, resolution, or order of the court is recorded. Provided that nothing herein shall be construed as affecting any liens or assessments existing prior to the effective date of this act. |Added by Laws 1980, c. 255, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1980.
16 OK Stat § 16-17 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-17. After-acquired title.

|All rights of a mortgagor or grantor in and to the premises described in the instrument and existing at the time or subsequently accruing, shall accrue to the benefit of the mortgagee or grantee, and be covered by his mortgage or conveyed by his deed, as the case may be. |R.L.1910, § 1160.
16 OK Stat § 16-18 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-18. Quitclaim conveys what.

|A quitclaim deed, made in substantial compliance with the provisions of this chapter, shall convey all the right, title and interest of the maker thereof in and to the premises therein described. |R.L.1910, § 1161.
16 OK Stat § 16-19 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-19. Warranty deed conveys what - Implied terms.

|A warranty deed made in substantial compliance with the provisions of this chapter, shall convey to the grantee, his heirs or assigns, the whole interest of the grantor in the premises described, and shall be deemed a covenant on the part of the grantor, that at the time of making the deed he is legally seized of an indefeasible estate in fee simple of the premises and has good right and full power to convey the same; that the same is clear of all encumbrances and liens, and that he warrants to the grantee, his heirs and assigns, the quiet and peaceable possession thereof, and will defend the title thereto against all persons who may lawfully claim the same, and the covenants and warranty shall be obligatory and binding upon any such grantor, his heirs and personal representatives as if written at length in such deed. |R.L.1910, § 1162.
16 OK Stat § 16-20 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-20. Power of attorney - Execution - Recording.

|A power of attorney in fact for the conveyance of real estate or any interest therein, or for the execution or release of any mortgage therefor, shall be executed, acknowledged and recorded in the manner required by this chapter for the execution, acknowledgment and recording of deeds and mortgages, and shall be recorded in the county where the land is situated, and no deed, mortgage or release of a mortgage executed by an attorney in fact shall be received for record or recorded until the power under which the same is executed has been duly filed for record in the same office; and the recording of any deed, mortgage or release of mortgage shall be of no effect for any purpose until the power under which it is executed has been duly filed for record in the same office. Provided that any power of attorney promulgated by any agency of the Government of the United States shall be deemed sufficiently recorded for purposes of this section if the promulgation thereof shall have been published in the Federal Registry of the Government of the United States and any instrument executed pursuant to said power of attorney recites the specific reference to said publication. |R.L.1910, § 1163; Laws 1977, c. 69, § 1, emerg. eff. May 23, 1977.
16 OK Stat § 16-21 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-21. Revocation of power of attorney.

|No instrument containing a power of attorney for the conveyance, mortgage, or lease of any estate or interest in real property which has been recorded, is to be deemed revoked as to third parties by any act of the person by whom it was executed, unless the instrument containing such revocation is also recorded in the same office in which the instrument containing the power of attorney was recorded. |R.L.1910, § 1164.
16 OK Stat § 16-22 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-22. Judgment for recovery of land - When effective against grantors.

|In all cases where there is a recovery of land or any interest therein, adverse to any warranty deed thereto, the judgment by which such recovery is had shall not be effective, or become the basis of an action, against previous grantors, other than those who are parties thereto, or have been notified in writing of the pendency thereof twenty (20) days before such judgment is entered. |R.L.1910, § 1165.
16 OK Stat § 16-23 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-23. Notice of suit to grantor.

|In all cases where an action is brought against a grantee to recover real estate conveyed to him by warranty deed he must notify the grantor, or person bound by the warranty, that such suit has been brought, at least twenty (20) days before the day of trial, which notice shall be in writing and shall request such grantor or other person to defend against such action; and in case of failure to give such notice there shall be no further liability upon such warranty, except when it is clearly shown that it was impossible to make service of such notice. |R.L.1910, § 1166.
16 OK Stat § 16-24 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-24. Defense by warrantor - Recovery by warrantee.

|Where any grantor appears in any action to defend his warranty or fails to appear after due notice, the court shall determine all the rights of all the parties, and in case the recovery is adverse to the warranty, the warrantee shall recover of the warrantor the price of the land paid for the conveyance at the time of the warranty, the value of all improvements lost, if any, and all sums necessarily expended, including a reasonable attorney fee, and interest at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum on all sums so paid from the time of payment. |R.L.1910, § 1167.
16 OK Stat § 16-25 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-25. Failure to defend - Recovery.

|If a warrantor or other person bound by a warranty shall fail to appear and defend after due notice as above provided the warrantee may defend the action and recover in a separate suit all sums expended the same as he might do in the same suit, as provided in this act. |R.L.1910, § 1168.
16 OK Stat § 16-26 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-26. Acknowledgment before recording.

|No deed, mortgage or other instrument affecting the real estate shall be received for record or recorded unless executed and acknowledged in substantial compliance with this chapter; and the recording of any such instrument not so executed and acknowledged shall not be effective for any purpose. |R.L.1910, § 1169.
16 OK Stat § 16-27a (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-27a. Instruments recorded for five (5) years valid notwithstanding defects - Evidence.

|A. When any instrument shall have been recorded in the office of the county clerk in the proper county for the period of five (5) years, and the instrument contains any of the following defects: |1. It has not been signed by the proper representative of a legal entity;2. The representative is not authorized to execute the instrument on behalf of the legal entity;3. A power of attorney has not been filed of record for an attorney in fact executing the instrument;4. The seal of the legal entity has not been impressed on such instrument or the record does not show such seal;5. The instrument is not acknowledged;6. A deed or conveyance does not bear endorsement of approval by the appropriate governmental planning authority having jurisdiction; or7. Any defect in the execution, acknowledgment, recording or certificate of recording the same,such instrument shall, from and after the expiration of five (5) years from the filing thereof for record, be valid as though such instrument had, in the first instance, been in all respects duly executed, acknowledged, approved by the appropriate planning authority having jurisdiction, and certified. Such instrument or the record thereof or a duly-authenticated copy thereof shall be competent evidence without requiring the original to be produced or accounted for to the same extent that written instruments, duly executed and acknowledged, or the record thereof, are competent. However, nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any rights acquired by grantees, assignees or encumbrancers subsequent to the filing of such instrument for record and prior to the expiration of five (5) years from the filing of such instrument for record.B. This section shall apply to instruments recorded before or after November 1, 1995. However, with respect to those recorded before such date, the five-year period specified above shall not expire until one (1) year after the effective date of this act.Added by Laws 1941, p. 56, § 1. Amended by Laws 1947, p. 81, § 1; Laws 1988, c. 168, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1988; Laws 1995, c. 232, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.
16 OK Stat § 16-28 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-28. Instruments to be printed or handwritten in English – Electronic filing.

|A. No instrument affecting the title to real estate shall be filed for record or recorded unless plainly printed, typed, or handwritten or partly printed, partly typed, or partly handwritten, and the instrument is an original or a certified copy of an original instrument, clearly legible in the English language. |B. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall not prevent the filing of documents electronically pursuant to the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act.R.L. 1910, § 1171. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 195, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1996; Laws 1997, c. 1, § 1, emerg. eff. Feb. 18, 1997; Laws 1997, c. 233, § 1, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 2008, c. 295, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
16 OK Stat § 16-29 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-29. Fee simple - Exception.

|Every estate in land which shall be granted, conveyed or demised by deed or will shall be deemed an estate in fee simple and of inheritance, unless limited by express words. |R.L.1910, § 1175.
16 OK Stat § 16-30 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-30. Will recorded.

|Any will, devising real estate or any interest therein, or a copy thereof, together with a copy of the probate thereof, all duly certified by the county judge, may be filed and recorded in the office of the register of deeds, with like effect as a deed duly executed and acknowledged. |R.L.1910, § 1176.
16 OK Stat § 16-31 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-31. Judgment recorded.

|Any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction finding and adjudging the rights of any party to real estate or any interest therein, duly certified, may be filed for record and recorded in the office of the register of deeds, with like effect as a deed duly executed and acknowledged. |R.L.1910, § 1177.
16 OK Stat § 16-32 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-32. Minor may hold real estate - Estates to commence in future.

|A minor may take and hold title to real estate, and an estate of freehold or inheritance may be made to commence in the future by express provisions of the deed, and without at the same time creating any intervening estate. |R.L.1910, § 1178.
16 OK Stat § 16-33 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-33. Form of acknowledgment.

|An acknowledgment by individuals of any instrument affecting real estate shall be in substantially a form as provided for in the Uniform Law on Notarial Acts or in substantially the following form: |State of Oklahoma, )) ss.__________ County. )Before me, ____ in and for this state, on this ____ day of ____, ________ personally appeared ________ to me known to be the identical person(s) who executed the within and foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that ____ executed the same as ____ free and voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth.R.L.1910, § 1179. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 189, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 1999, c. 104, § 1, emerg. eff. April 19, 1999.
16 OK Stat § 16-34 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-34. Execution by mark.

|When real estate is conveyed or encumbered by an instrument in writing by a person who cannot write his or her name, the person shall execute the same by a mark, and the person’s name shall be written near the mark by one of two persons who saw the mark made, who shall write their names on the instrument as witnesses. In case the instrument is acknowledged, then the officer taking the acknowledgment shall, in addition to the other necessary recitals in the acknowledgment, state that the grantor executed the instrument, by inserting in the form of acknowledgment provided in Section 33 of this title by individuals after the words "foregoing instrument" the words "by the person’s mark, in my presence and in the presence of ____ and ____ as witnesses". |R.L.1910, § 1180. Amended by Laws 1999, c. 104, § 2, emerg. eff. April 19, 1999.
16 OK Stat § 16-35 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-35. Acknowledgment to be under seal - Before whom taken.

|Every acknowledgment must be under seal of the officer taking the same; and when taken in this state, it may be taken before any notary public, county clerk, clerk of the district court, clerk of the county court, or county judge; and when taken elsewhere in the United States, or United States possessions, or Canada (including Newfoundland), it may be taken before any notary public, clerk of a court of record, or commissioner of deeds duly appointed by the Governor of the state for the county, state or territory where the same is taken; and when taken in any other foreign country, it may be taken before any court of record or clerk of such court, or before any Consul of the United States, provided, that acknowledgments relating to military business of the state may be taken before an officer in charge of any summary Court-Martial appointed under the provisions of Section 157, Title 44, Oklahoma Statutes, 1941, a certified copy of whose appointment is placed of record in the office of the Secretary of State by the Adjutant General. |R.L.1910, § 1181. Amended by Laws 1913, c. 226, p. 604, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1913; Laws 1935, p. 200, § 1, emerg. eff. March 23, 1935; Laws 1945, p. 41, § 1, emerg. eff. April 16, 1945.
16 OK Stat § 16-36 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-36. Legalizing acknowledgments heretofore taken.

|In all cases where heretofore any county judge, register of deeds, United States commissioner, or United States court commissioner has taken acknowledgment of deeds or other conveyances of real estate in their respective counties, that the same be and are hereby legalized and made valid and binding; and such action shall have the same force and effect as if taken before some officer heretofore empowered by the statute to take acknowledgments. |R.L.1910, § 1182.
16 OK Stat § 16-37 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-37. Foreign acknowledgments legalized.

|All deeds, mortgages, oil and gas leases, powers of attorney and other instruments of writing for the conveyance or encumbrance of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments situated within this state, heretofore executed and acknowledged or proved in any state, territory, District of Columbia or country in conformity with the law of such state, territory, District of Columbia or country, shall be as valid as if executed within this state in conformity with the provisions of the laws of this state. Provided this act shall not validate any acknowledgemts fraudulently obtained. |Added by Laws 1929, c. 12, p. 11, § 1.
16 OK Stat § 16-37a (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-37a. Foreign acknowledgments validated.

|All deeds, mortgages, releases, oil and gas leases, powers of attorney and other instruments of writing for the conveyance or encumbrance of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments situated within this state, heretofore executed and acknowledged or proved in any state, territory, District of Columbia or foreign country in conformity with the law of such state, territory, District of Columbia or foreign country, shall be as valid as to execution and acknowledgment thereof, only, as if executed and acknowledged within this state in conformity with the provisions of the laws of this state. Provided this act shall not validate any execution or acknowledgment fraudulently obtained. |Laws 1941, p. 56, § 1.
16 OK Stat § 16-37b (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-37b. Foreign execution and acknowledgments validated - Exceptions.

|All deeds, mortgages, releases, oil and gas leases, powers of attorney and other instruments of writing for the conveyance or encumbrance of any lands, tenements or hereditaments situated within this state, now of record or hereafter recorded which are executed and acknowledged or proved in any state, territory, District of Columbia or foreign country, in conformity with the law of such state, territory, District of Columbia or foreign country, or in conformity with the Federal Statutes, shall be as valid as to execution and acknowledgment thereof, only, as if executed and acknowledged within this state in conformity with the provisions of the laws of this state. Provided this act shall not validate any deed, mortgage, releases, oil and gas leases, powers of attorney, and other instruments of writing for the conveyance of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, the validity of which is in litigation upon the effective date of this act. Provided this act shall not validate any execution or acknowledgment fraudulently obtained. |Laws 1949, p. 112, § 1; Laws 1963, c. 74, § 1, emerg. eff. May 21, 1963.
16 OK Stat § 16-38 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-38. Acknowledgments before deputy clerk of district court validated.

|In all cases where heretofore any deputy clerk of the district court has taken acknowledgments of deeds, or other conveyances of real estate, in their respective counties, the same are hereby legalized and made binding, and such action shall have the same force and effect as if taken before some officer heretofore empowered by the statute to take acknowledgments. |Laws 1915, c. 270, § 1.
16 OK Stat § 16-39 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-39. Justice of the Peace - Acknowledgments validated.

|In all cases where, prior to May 16th, 1913, any Justice of the Peace has taken acknowledgments of deeds or other conveyances of real estate affecting and relating to real estate located in a county or counties other than the county in which such Justice of the Peace resided, such acknowledgments are hereby legalized and made binding, and such acknowledgments shall have the same force and effect as if taken before some Justice of the Peace, a resident of the county in which the land sought to be deeded or conveyed was situated. |Laws 1923, c. 153, p. 253, § 1.