Ohio § 5301.48 Unbroken chain of title of record

Ohio Statutes

§ 5301.48 — Unbroken chain of title of record

Ohio § 5301.48

Title 53Real Property

Ch. 5301Conveyances; Encumbrances

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5301.48 (2026).

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Any person having the legal capacity to own land in this state, who has an unbroken chain of title of record to any interest in land for forty years or more, has a marketable record title to such interest as defined in section5301.47of the Revised Code, subject to the matters stated in section5301.49of the Revised Code. A person has such an unbroken chain of title when the official public records disclose a conveyance or other title transaction, of record not less than forty years at the time the marketability is to be determined, which said conveyance or other title transaction purports to create such interest, either in:

(A)The person claiming such interest; or

(B)Some other person from whom, by one or more conveyances or other title transactions of record, such purported interest h

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Any person having the legal capacity to own land in this state, who has an unbroken chain of title of record to any interest in land for forty years or more, has a marketable record title to such interest as defined in section5301.47of the Revised Code, subject to the matters stated in section5301.49of the Revised Code.

A person has such an unbroken chain of title when the official public records disclose a conveyance or other title transaction, of record not less than forty years at the time the marketability is to be determined, which said conveyance or other title transaction purports to create such interest, either in:

(A) The person claiming such interest; or

(B) Some other person from whom, by one or more conveyances or other title transactions of record, such purported interest has become vested in the person claiming such interest; with nothing appearing of record, in either case, purporting to divest such claimant of such purported interest.