North Dakota Code 47-19.1-02 – Definitions
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Terms Used In North Dakota Code 47-19.1-02
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
1. A person is deemed to have the unbroken chain of title to an interest in real estate when the records of the county recorder disclose a conveyance or other title transaction of record twenty years or more which purports to create the interest in that person or that person’s immediate or remote grantors, with nothing appearing of record purporting to divest that purported interest.
2. Title transaction means any transaction affecting title to real estate, including by will or descent from any person who held title of record at death, title by a decree or order of any court, title by tax deed or by trustee‘s, referee’s, guardian‘s, executor‘s, or sheriff’s deed, as well as by direct conveyance or reservation.