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AR Code § 18-12-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 2 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|§ 18-12-206. Manner of making acknowledgment — Proof of deed or instrument — Proof of identity of grantor or witness

 (a) The acknowledgment of deeds and instruments of writing for the conveyance of real estate, or whereby such real estate is to be affected in law or equity, shall be by the grantor appearing in person before a court or officer having the authority by law to take the acknowledgment and stating that he or she had executed the deed or instrument for the consideration and purposes therein mentioned and set forth.  (b) When a deed or instrument referred to in subsection (a) of this section is to be proved, it shall be done by one (1) or more of the subscribing witnesses personally appearing before the proper court or officer and stating on oath that he or she saw the grantor subscribe the deed or instrument of writing or that the grantor acknowledged in his or her presence that he or she had subscribed and executed the deed or instrument for the purposes and consideration therein mentioned, and that he or she had subscribed the deed or instrument as a witness at the request of the grantor.  (c) If any grantor has not acknowledged the execution of a deed or instrument referred to in subsection (a) of this section and the subscribing witnesses are dead or cannot be had, then the deed or instrument may be proved by the evidence of the handwriting of the grantor and of at least one (1) of the subscribing witnesses. This evidence shall consist of the deposition of two (2) or more disinterested persons, swearing to each signature.  (d)  (1) When any grantor in any deed or instrument that conveys real estate or whereby any real estate may be affected in law or equity, or any witness to any like instrument, shall present himself or herself before any court or other officer for the purpose of acknowledging or proving the execution of the deed or instrument, if the grantor or witness shall be personally unknown to the court or officer, his or her identity and his or her being the person he or she purports to be on the face of such instrument of writing shall be proved to the court or officer.  (2) Proof may be made by witnesses known to the court or officer or by the affidavit of the grantor or witness if the court or officer shall be satisfied therewith. The proof or affidavit shall also be endorsed on the deed or instrument of writing.
AR Code § 18-12-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 2 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|§ 18-12-209. Recorded deed or written instrument affecting real estate

 (a) Every deed or instrument in writing which conveys or affects real estate and which is acknowledged or proved and certified as prescribed by this act may, together with the certificate of acknowledgment, proof, or relinquishment of dower, be recorded by the recorder of the county where such land to be conveyed or affected thereby is located, and when so recorded may be read in evidence in any court in this state without further proof of execution.  (b) If it appears at any time that any deed or instrument duly acknowledged or proved and recorded as prescribed by this act is lost or not within the power and control of the party wishing to use the deed or instrument, the record thereof, or a transcript of the record certified by the recorder, may be read in evidence without further proof of execution.  (c) Neither the certificate of acknowledgment nor the probate of any such deed or instrument, nor the record or transcript thereof, shall be conclusive, but it may be rebutted.
AR Code § 18-12-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 3 - Fee Tail|§ 18-12-301. Considered life estate

 In cases when, by common law, any person may become seized in fee tail of any lands or tenements, by virtue of any devise, gift, grant, or other conveyance, the person, instead of being, or becoming, seized thereof in fee tail, shall be adjudged to be, and become, seized thereof for his or her natural life only. The remainder shall pass in fee simple absolute to the person to whom the estate tail would first pass according to the course of the common law by virtue of the devise, gift, grant, or conveyance.
AR Code § 18-12-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 3 - Fee Tail|§ 18-12-302. Dissolution

 (a)  (1) Any estate which under the common law would be deemed an estate tail or a fee tail estate or any estate created by reason of a conveyance to a grantee or grantees and the heirs of his or her body or to other contingent remaindermen may be dissolved by the grantor creating such an estate and all life tenants and all of the other persons then living who might be remaindermen in event of the death of the life tenant or tenants executing a conveyance of the fee.  (2) The conveyance shall vest in the grantee the fee simple title to the lands therein conveyed.    (b) The method of extinguishing the estates mentioned in subsection (a) of this section shall apply equally to those estates now in existence and to those which may hereafter come into existence.  (c) The rights and privileges provided by this section are permissive and cumulative to the rights and remedies now existing under the laws of this state.
AR Code § 18-12-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 3 - Fee Tail|§ 18-12-303. Rule in Shelley's Case abolished

 (a)  (1) The Rule in Shelley's Case is abolished and shall not be recognized by any court of this state.  (2) This section is intended to annul the application or effect of the Rule in Shelley's Case on any instrument or interest in real property.    (b) When any instrument prepared or executed after July 16, 2003, conveys an interest in any real property to be given to the heirs or issue of any person in words which, under the rule of construction known as the “Rule in Shelley's Case” would have operated to give to that person an interest in fee simple, those words shall operate as words of purchase and not of limitation.
AR Code § 18-12-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 4 - Husband and Wife|§ 18-12-401. Deed between spouses

 (a) A deed of conveyance of real property located in this state executed after the passage of this act by an individual to his or her spouse shall convey to the grantee named in the deed the entire interest of the grantor in the property conveyed, or the interest specified in the deed, as if the spousal relation did not exist between the parties to the deed.  (b)  (1) All deeds of conveyance of real property in this state executed before the passage of this act by an individual to his or her spouse shall convey to the respective grantees in the deeds the full and entire interests of the respective grantors in the deeds, or the interests specified in the deeds respectively, as if the spousal relation had not existed between the parties to the deeds.  (2) This subsection does not apply to a deed that has been construed by a court of competent jurisdiction.    (c) The word “deed” as used in this section includes instruments of writing affecting, or purporting to affect, the title to real property, either by way of conveyance or encumbrance.  (d) The purpose of this section is to empower an individual to contract with his or her spouse in regard to real property in the same manner and to the same effect as if the spousal relation did not exist between the parties to the deed.
AR Code § 18-12-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 4 - Husband and Wife|§ 18-12-402. Relinquishment of dower or curtesy in spouse's land

 A married person may relinquish dower or curtesy in any of the real estate of a spouse by joining with the spouse in the deed of conveyance thereof, or by a separate instrument executed to spouse's grantee or anyone claiming title under the spouse, and acknowledging it in the manner prescribed by law.
AR Code § 18-12-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 4 - Husband and Wife|§ 18-12-403. Conveyance, etc., of homestead

 No conveyance, mortgage, or other instrument affecting the homestead of any married person shall be of any validity, except for taxes, laborers' and mechanics' liens, and purchase money, unless his or her spouse joins in the execution of the instrument, or conveys by separate document, and acknowledges it.
AR Code § 18-12-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 4 - Husband and Wife|§ 18-12-404. Conveyance of interest of husband with mental illness and guardian appointed — Relinquishment of dower

 In all cases under § 20-47-103 whereunder a husband is duly adjudged to be with mental illness and a guardian appointed and wherein the guardian makes a sale of the husband's interest in any of the real estate belonging to his ward, and the wife of the husband with mental illness is entitled to dower, it shall be sufficient to pass the dower interest of the wife, if she shall duly join in the petition of the guardian for the sale, and by separate instrument, duly acknowledged, convey all her interest in the lands.
AR Code § 18-12-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 5 - Power of Attorney|§ 18-12-501. Acknowledgment and recording

 (a) Every letter of attorney, containing a power to convey any real estate as agent or attorney for the owner thereof or to execute as agent or attorney for another any deed or instrument in writing, that shall convey any real estate, or whereby any real estate shall be affected in law or equity, shall be acknowledged or proved and certified and recorded with any deed that the agent or attorney shall make in virtue of the letter of attorney.  (b) Letters of attorney shall be proved or acknowledged before the same courts or officers that are authorized by this act to take probate of deeds conveying real estate.
AR Code § 18-12-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 5 - Power of Attorney|§ 18-12-502. Revocation

 (a)  (1) No letter of attorney, duly acknowledged or proved and certified as prescribed by this act, shall be revoked but by the maker of the letter of attorney or his or her legal representatives.  (2) The revocation shall be in writing acknowledged or proved before the proper court or officer and filed for record in the county or counties where the letter of attorney was intended to operate.    (b) All such letters of attorney shall be revoked and deemed void from the time of filing revocations for record.
AR Code § 18-12-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 5 - Power of Attorney|§ 18-12-503. Relinquishment of dower, curtesy, and homestead rights

 (a) By joining with his or her spouse in the execution of power of attorney, or by separate instrument, a married person may appoint an agent or attorney in fact and authorize him or her, for and in the person's name and stead, to relinquish all rights and possibility of dower, curtesy, and homestead to a spouse's grantee, lessee, or mortgagee in any lands, oil, gas, mineral, or timber and to execute for the person such relinquishment of dower, curtesy, and homestead in any oil and gas lease or assignment thereof, mineral deed, timber deed, royalty contract, mortgage, or contract for the sale of any land, timber, or minerals, or any interest therein, owned by a spouse and conveyed by the spouse to the grantee.  (b)  (1) The act of an agent or attorney in fact, when authorized by properly executed and recorded power of attorney, in so relinquishing dower, curtesy, and homestead of a married person by joining in any deed, lease, conveyance of minerals, royalty contract, or other contract for the sale of any lands or lease of any lands for developing its minerals, or any interest therein, or the assignment of any oil and gas lease or interest therein shall be as effectual and binding as if the instrument or instruments had been executed in the first instance by the married person.  (2) The relinquishment by the attorney in fact may be by separate instrument or by the attorney in fact joining with the spouse in the execution of one (1) or more conveyances.
AR Code § 18-12-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 6 - Miscellaneous Conveyances|§ 18-12-601. After-acquired title

 If any person shall convey any real estate by deed purporting to convey it in fee simple absolute, or any less estate, and shall not at the time of the conveyance have the legal estate in the lands, but shall afterwards acquire it, then the legal or equitable estate afterwards acquired shall immediately pass to the grantee and the conveyance shall be as valid as if the legal or equitable estate had been in the grantor at the time of the conveyance.
AR Code § 18-12-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 6 - Miscellaneous Conveyances|§ 18-12-602. Land in adverse possession

 Any person claiming title to any real estate, notwithstanding there may be an adverse possession thereof, may sell and convey his or her interest in the same manner and with like effect as if he or she were in the actual possession of the real estate.
AR Code § 18-12-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 6 - Miscellaneous Conveyances|§ 18-12-603. Grants to two or more as tenancy in common

 Every interest in real estate granted or devised to two (2) or more persons, other than executors and trustees as such, shall be in tenancy in common unless expressly declared in the grant or devise to be a joint tenancy.
AR Code § 18-12-604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 6 - Miscellaneous Conveyances|§ 18-12-604. Deed to trustee or agent

 (a)  (1) The appearance of the words “trustee”, “as trustee”, or “agent” following the names of the grantee in any deed of conveyance of land executed, without other language showing a trust, shall not be deemed to give notice to, or put on inquiry, any person dealing with the land that a trust or agency exists or that there are other beneficiaries of the conveyance except the grantee named therein.  (2) The conveyance shall vest the title to the land in the grantee.    (b) A conveyance of land by the grantee, whether followed by the words “trustee”, “as trustee”, or “agent” or not, shall vest title in his or her grantee free from any claims of all persons or corporations.
AR Code § 18-12-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 6 - Miscellaneous Conveyances|§ 18-12-605. Deeds of administrators, executors, guardians, commissioners, and sheriffs

 (a)  (1) All deeds of conveyance made by an administrator, an executor, a guardian, or a commissioner, deeds of real estate sold under an execution made and executed by a sheriff, and deeds made and executed by a trustee or an attorney pursuant to a foreclosure of a deed of trust or mortgage, duly made and executed, acknowledged, and recorded, as now required by law and purporting to convey real estate, shall vest in the grantee and his or her heirs and assigns a good and valid title, both in law and in equity.  (2)  (A) The deeds shall be evidence of the facts recited in the deeds and of the legality and regularity of the sale of the real estate so conveyed.  (B) However, the deeds do not warrant title to a subsequent grantee, and any subsequent grantee may not assert or claim any warranty of title deriving from the deeds.      (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a deed made under subdivision (a)(1) of this section from warranting title by express use of warranty language.  (c) Every deed so made, executed, acknowledged, and recorded, or a certified copy of the deed, under the seal of the recorder of the proper county shall be received in evidence in any court in this state without further proof of its execution.
AR Code § 18-12-606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 6 - Miscellaneous Conveyances|§ 18-12-606. Deed or patent by Governor

 (a) In all cases in which, by the laws of this state, the Governor is required to execute any deed of conveyance or patent for any lands sold or granted by the state, the deed of conveyance or patent, when executed by the Governor and countersigned by the Secretary of State, and when the seal of the state shall be affixed thereto, shall convey all the right and title of the state in and to the lands to the purchaser.  (b)  (1) The deed may be recorded in the office of the recorder of the proper county and shall have the same effect as evidence.  (2) A duly certified transcript of the deed or patent taken from the record thereof shall have the same effect as evidence in all the courts in this state as if the deed or patent had been acknowledged and recorded under the existing laws of this state.
AR Code § 18-12-607 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 6 - Miscellaneous Conveyances|§ 18-12-607. Sales of real estate by defunct corporations ratified

 (a) All sales of real estate which was the property of any corporation organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, when the corporation has expired or ceased to exist, either by limitations, judgment of court, forfeiture of its charter, legislative act, or by surrender of charter, are ratified and declared to be binding and to pass to the purchaser at the sales all the right, title, and interest the corporation has in the real estate at the time of its dissolution and to pass to the purchaser all the right, title, and interest in the State of Arkansas, as trustee, as now provided by law.  (b)  (1) The deed of conveyance shall have been executed by the proper officers of the corporation at the time of its dissolution or, in the event of their death, absence from the state, or inability to act, the resident stockholders of the corporation shall have a right to select a president and secretary for the purpose of executing and delivering the deed of conveyance.  (2) When so executed, the deed shall have the same force and effect as if executed by the proper officers of the corporation prior to the dissolution thereof.
AR Code § 18-12-609 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 6 - Miscellaneous Conveyances|§ 18-12-609. Marketability of real property sold at tax sales

 (a) The title to any real property located within the State of Arkansas based upon a deed resulting from a delinquent tax sale is marketable if:  (1) The tax deed has been of record for more than fifteen (15) years;  (2) Any taxes due have been paid by the tax deed grantee or the heirs or successors of the tax deed grantee for more than fifteen (15) years;  (3) No claim of adverse possession of the real property has been asserted or filed of record since the recording of the tax deed; and  (4) The taxes for which the tax deed was issued had not been paid before the tax deed was executed and delivered to the tax deed grantee.    (b) This section shall not be subject to the additional time to challenge a tax deed given to minors, persons suffering a mental incapacity, or persons serving in the United States Armed Forces during a time of war under § 26-37-203(b).  (c)  (1) Nothing in this section shall preclude a judicial action to confirm a tax sale or quiet the title to any real property located within this state prior to the time that the title to the real property is considered marketable under subsection (a) of this section.  (2) A judicial action to confirm the tax sale or quiet title to real property located in this state eliminates any additional time to redeem the real property or challenge a tax deed under § 26-37-203 or § 26-37-305.    (d) This section shall not apply to a tax sale of a severed mineral interest.
AR Code § 18-12-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 7 - Disbursement of Funds as Part of Real Estate Closing and Settlement Services Act|§ 18-12-701. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Disbursement of Funds as Part of Real Estate Closing and Settlement Services Act”.
AR Code § 18-12-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 7 - Disbursement of Funds as Part of Real Estate Closing and Settlement Services Act|§ 18-12-702. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Available for immediate withdrawal as a matter of right” means the following:  (A) For any item or draft, when the item or draft has been submitted for collection and payment received; and  (B) For any deposited item or draft, when final settlement has occurred;    (2) “Closing and settlement services” means those services which benefit the parties to the sale, lease, encumbrance, mortgage, or creation of a secured interest in and to real property, and the receipt and disbursement of money in connection with any sale, lease, encumbrance, mortgage, or deed of trust; and  (3) “Financial institution” means an entity that is authorized under the laws of this state, another state, or the United States of America to make loans and receive deposits and has its deposits insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.
AR Code § 18-12-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 12 - Conveyances|Subchapter 7 - Disbursement of Funds as Part of Real Estate Closing and Settlement Services Act|§ 18-12-703. Closing and settlement services — Disbursement of funds — Penalties

 (a)  (1) No person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity that provides closing and settlement services for a real estate transaction shall disburse funds as a part of such services until those funds have been received and are available for immediate withdrawal as a matter of right from the financial institution in which the funds have been deposited.  (2) However, the person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity providing closing and settlement services may advance funds, not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500), on behalf of interested parties for the transaction, to pay incidental fees and charges pertaining to the closing and settlement of the transaction.    (b) Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity who knowingly and willfully violates the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.  (c) In addition to the criminal penalty imposed by this section, the prosecuting attorneys of this state shall have the authority to file a petition in circuit court in any county in which a violation of the provisions of this subchapter occurred, for civil enforcement of the provisions of this subchapter by seeking an injunction prohibiting any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity from disbursing funds in violation of this subchapter.
AR Code § 18-14-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 14 - Arkansas Time-Share Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 18-14-101. Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Time-Share Act”.