Chapter 1 Statute of Frauds; Writing Requirements
Chapter 2 Recording Process
Chapter 2.5 Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
Chapter 3 Effect of Recording
Chapter 4 Priority of Recorded Transactions
Chapter 5 Residential Real Estate Sales Disclosure
Chapter 6 Psychologically Affected Properties
Chapter 7 Adverse Possession
Chapter 8 Tax Sale Surplus Disclosure
Chapter 10 Conveyances in Which the Grantor and Another Are Named as Grantees
Chapter 12 Deed Restrictions Regarding Industrialized Residential Structures
Chapter 13 Display of Political Signs on Property Subject to Restrictive Covenants or Homeowners Association Rules
Chapter 14 Transfer Fee Covenants
Chapter 15 Discriminatory Restrictive Covenants
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Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 32 > Article 21 - Conveyance Procedures for Real Property

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • agent: means a real estate agent or other person acting on behalf of the owner or transferee of real estate or acting as a limited agent. See Indiana Code 32-21-6-1
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • buyer: means a transferee in a transaction described in section 1 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 32-21-5-2
  • closing: means a transfer of an interest described in section 1 of this chapter by a deed, installment sales contract, or lease. See Indiana Code 32-21-5-3
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • conveyance: means :

    Indiana Code 32-21-3-1

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • disclosure form: refers to a disclosure form prepared under section 8 of this chapter or a disclosure form that meets the requirements of section 8 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 32-21-5-5
  • discriminatory restrictive covenant: means any restrictive covenant on real property which, if enforced, would violate:

    Indiana Code 32-21-15-1

  • documents: means an electronic record (as defined in IC 26-2-8-102) or information that is:

    Indiana Code 32-21-2.5-1

  • electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Indiana Code 32-21-2.5-2
  • electronic document: means a document that is received by a county recorder in an electronic form. See Indiana Code 32-21-2.5-3
  • electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. See Indiana Code 32-21-2.5-4
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • grantor: has the meaning set forth in IC 32-17-1-1. See Indiana Code 32-21-3-2
  • homeowners association: means a corporation or another entity that:

    Indiana Code 32-21-2-1.2

  • industrialized residential structure: means a structure that is:

    Indiana Code 32-21-12-1

  • instrument: means :

    Indiana Code 32-21-2-1.5

  • issuer: means any issuer of obligations that is referred to in IC 5-1-1-1(b). See Indiana Code 5-1-14-1.2
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • limited agent: means an agent who, with the written and informed consent of all parties to a real estate transaction, is engaged by both the seller and buyer or both the landlord and tenant. See Indiana Code 32-21-6-2
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • obligations: has the meaning set forth in IC 5-1-3-1(2). See Indiana Code 5-1-14-1.5
  • owner: means the owner of residential real estate that is for sale, exchange, lease with an option to buy, or sale under an installment contract. See Indiana Code 32-21-5-6
  • person: includes a person who may be married; and

    Indiana Code 32-21-10-1

  • person: means an individual, a corporation, a business trust, an estate, a trust, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint venture, a public corporation, a government or a governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Indiana Code 32-21-2.5-5
  • persons: includes persons who may be married to each other. See Indiana Code 32-21-10-1
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • proof: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 32-21-3-2.5
  • psychologically affected property: includes real estate or a dwelling that is for sale, rent, or lease and to which one (1) or more of the following facts or a reasonable suspicion of facts apply:

    Indiana Code 32-21-6-3

  • real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
  • rules: refers to any of the following:

    Indiana Code 32-21-13-2

  • state: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Indiana Code 32-21-2.5-6
  • Tenancy by the entirety: A type of joint tenancy between husband and wife that is recognized in some States. Neither party can sever the joint tenancy relationship; when a spouse dies, the survivor acquires full title to the property.
  • Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
  • tract: means an area of land that is:

    Indiana Code 32-21-2-2

  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • transfer: means the transfer of an interest in real property located in Indiana by:

    Indiana Code 32-21-14-1

  • transfer fee: means a fee or charge that:

    Indiana Code 32-21-14-2

  • transfer fee covenant: means a declaration or covenant, however denominated and regardless of whether it is recorded, that:

    Indiana Code 32-21-14-3

  • transferee: means a purchaser, tenant, lessee, prospective purchaser, prospective tenant, or prospective lessee of the real estate or dwelling. See Indiana Code 32-21-6-4