A title insurance company shall not engage in the business of guaranteeing the payment of the principal or the interest of notes, bonds, or other obligations secured by mortgages upon real property. A title insurance company shall not engage in the business of guaranteeing the completion of improvements in this state. Notwithstanding section 1735.01 of the Revised Code, a title guarantee and trust company may not guarantee the collection of interest and principal of mortgage loans.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 3953.09

  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Title insurance: means insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying owners of real property or others interested in real property against loss or damage suffered by reason of liens or encumbrances upon, defect in, or the unmarketability of the title to the real property, guaranteeing, warranting, or otherwise insuring by a title insurance company the correctness of searches relating to the title to real property, or doing any business in substance equivalent to any of the foregoing. See Ohio Code 3953.01
  • Title insurance company: means any of the following:

    (1) Any domestic title guaranty company and domestic title guarantee and trust company to the extent that they are engaged in the business of title insurance;

    (2) Any domestic company organized under this chapter for the purpose of insuring titles to real property;

    (3) Any title insurance company organized under the laws of another state or foreign government;

    (4) Any domestic or foreign company that has the powers and is authorized to insure titles to real estate within this state on December 12, 1967, and that meets the requirements of this chapter. See Ohio Code 3953.01

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