Colorado § 38-36-148 Registered land may be conveyed or encumbered

Colorado Statutes

§ 38-36-148 — Registered land may be conveyed or encumbered

Colorado § 38-36-148

Title 38Property -

Art.Torrens Title Registration Act

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 38-36-148 (2026).

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The owner of
registered land may convey, mortgage, lease, charge, or otherwise encumber,
dispose of, or deal with the same as fully as if it had not been registered. He may
use forms of deeds, trust deeds, mortgages, and leases or voluntary instruments
like those now in use and sufficient in law for the purpose intended. But no
voluntary instrument of conveyance, except a will and a lease for a term not
exceeding three years, purporting to convey or affect registered land, shall take
effect as a conveyance or bind the land but shall operate only as a contract
between the parties and as evidence of the authority to the registrar of titles to
make registration. The act of registration shall be the operative act to convey or
affect the land.

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The owner of
registered land may convey, mortgage, lease, charge, or otherwise encumber,
dispose of, or deal with the same as fully as if it had not been registered. He may
use forms of deeds, trust deeds, mortgages, and leases or voluntary instruments
like those now in use and sufficient in law for the purpose intended. But no
voluntary instrument of conveyance, except a will and a lease for a term not
exceeding three years, purporting to convey or affect registered land, shall take
effect as a conveyance or bind the land but shall operate only as a contract
between the parties and as evidence of the authority to the registrar of titles to
make registration. The act of registration shall be the operative act to convey or
affect the land.