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2. Grant deed - Wikipedia

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   Understanding liens and encumbrances is important in real estate transactions. Grant deeds play a pivotal role in providing transparency about these potential obstacles and safeguarding the interests of both buyers and sellers. [1] The types of deeds that are now used to transfer real property are a relatively modern invention.

3. Recording (real estate) - Wikipedia

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   The names of these offices are usually the "Recorder of Deeds" or something similar. State statutes also prescribe the following elements: What instruments are entitled to be recorded, usually deeds, mortgages (whether or not in the form of deeds of trust), leases (usually longer term varieties), easements, and court orders. There is generally ...

4. Married Women's Property Acts in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The Married Women's Property Acts are laws enacted by the individual states of the United States beginning in 1839, usually under that name and sometimes, especially when extending the provisions of a Married Women's Property Act, under names describing a specific provision, such as the Married Women's Earnings Act.

5. Deed - Wikipedia

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   A deed is a legal document that is signed and delivered, especially concerning the ownership of property or legal rights. Specifically, in common law, a deed is any legal instrument in writing which passes, affirms or confirms an interest, right, or property and that is signed, attested, delivered, and in some jurisdictions, sealed.

6. Deed of trust (real estate) - Wikipedia

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   Transactions involving deeds of trust are normally structured, at least in theory, so that the lender/beneficiary gives the borrower/trustor the money to buy the property; the borrower/trustor tenders the money to the seller; the seller executes a grant deed giving the property to the borrower/trustor; and the borrower/trustor immediately executes a deed of trust giving the property to the ...

7. Gift (law) - Wikipedia

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   A gift, in the law of property, is the voluntary and immediate transfer of property from one person (the donor or grantor) to another (the donee or grantee) without consideration. There are several type of gifts in property law, most notably inter vivos gifts which are made in the donor's lifetime and causa mortis (deathbed) gifts which are ...

8. Merger doctrine (property law) - Wikipedia

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   The merger also refers to the doctrine whereby "a fee simple estate, once fragmented into present and future interests, can thereafter be reconstituted. 'Merger is the absorption of a lesser estate by a greater estate, and takes place when two distinct estates of greater and lesser rank meet in the same person or class of persons at the same time without any intermediate estate.' "[1 ...

9. Transfer deed - Wikipedia

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   A transfer deed is a document used in conveyancing in England and Wales to transfer real property from its legal owner to another party. Sometimes referred to as a transfer and formerly a conveyance or assignment (if a transfer of an existing Leasehold title). Several different forms of transfer are used, depending on the circumstances of the ...