Terms Used In Indiana Code 34-55-6-15

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Sheriff: means the sheriff of the county or another person authorized to perform sheriff's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
   Sec. 15. If the purchaser of real estate upon execution, who has paid the purchase money for the real estate, dies before a deed of conveyance is executed to the purchaser, the sheriff shall convey the real estate to the heirs or devisees of the deceased person.

[Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-1-39-11.]

As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.51.