Kansas Statutes 58-3403. Marketable record title; unbroken chain of title
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 58-3403
- Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, organization or other association. See Kansas Statutes 58-3402
- Records: includes probate and other official public records, as well as records in the office of the register of deeds. See Kansas Statutes 58-3402
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Title transaction: means any transaction affecting title to any interest in land, including title by will, descent, tax deed, mineral deed, lease or reservation; by trustee's, referee's, guardian's, conservator's, executor's, administrator's, master in chancery's or sheriff's deed; by decree of any court; or by warranty deed, quitclaim deed or mortgage. See Kansas Statutes 58-3402
Any person who has the legal capacity to own land in this state and who has an unbroken chain of title of record to any interest in land for 25 years or more shall be deemed to have a marketable record title to that interest, subject only to the exceptions and conditions stated in this act. A person shall be deemed to have an unbroken chain of title when the official public records disclose a conveyance or other title transaction, of record not less than 25 years at the time the marketability is to be determined, which purports to create an interest in land, either in the person claiming the interest or in some other person from whom, by one or more conveyances or other title transactions of record, the purported interest has become vested in the person claiming the interest and, in either case, with nothing appearing of record purporting to divest the claimant of the interest.