Ohio Code 5302.07 – Limited warranty deed form
A deed in substance following the form set forth in this section, when duly executed in accordance with Chapter 5301 of the Revised Code, has the force and effect of a deed in fee simple to the grantee, the grantee’s heirs, assigns, and successors, to the grantee’s and the grantee’s heirs’, assigns’, and successors’ own use, with covenants on the part of the grantor with the grantee, the grantee’s heirs, assigns, and successors, that, at the time of the delivery of that deed the premises were free from all encumbrances made by the grantor, and that the grantor does warrant and will defend the same to the grantee and the grantee’s heirs, assigns, and successors, forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by, through, or under the grantor, but against none other.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5302.07
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Dower: A widow
- Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
- Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
“LIMITED WARRANTY DEED
__________ (marital status), of ____________ County, _____________ for valuable consideration paid, grant(s), with limited warranty covenants, to ___________, whose tax-mailing address is ___________, the following real property:
(description of land or interest therein and encumbrances, reservations, and exceptions, if any)
Prior Instrument Reference: Volume _____, Page _____
___________, wife (husband) of said grantor, releases to said grantee all rights of dower therein.
Executed this _______________ day of __________________
______________________________
(Signature of Grantor)
(Execution in accordance with Chapter 5301 of the Revised Code)”