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One list is the grantor index, an alphabetic list of sellers (grantors). The other list is the grantee index, an alphabetic list of purchasers (grantees). [1] In a typical county in the United States, the index is kept by an official known as the County Recorder (or the Recorder of Deeds). Transfers are not necessarily listed in strict ...
The grantor is the party transferring away a property right, and the grantee is receiving a property right. In the case of a deed, the grantor would typically be the property seller, and the grantee the buyer. A mortgage grantor or mortgagor is the borrower of the loan since they are giving away certain property rights to the mortgagee, lender ...
A grantor/grantee title search attempts to locate records by searching the parties listed on a recorded instrument. One approach to conducting a full grantor/grantee title search starts by searching the grantor index in the County records and determining the name of the first recorded owner of title.
Only a few states require their recording offices to maintain this type of index. Among these states are Nebraska , North Dakota , Oklahoma , South Dakota , Utah and Wyoming . In addition, some other states permit recording offices to maintain tract indexes (for example, Kansas , Minnesota , Montana , Ohio , and Wisconsin ).
Portrait of Frederick Douglass in the D.C. Recorder of Deeds Building. Frederick Douglass was the first recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia.. Recorder of deeds or deeds registry is a government office tasked with maintaining public records and documents, especially records relating to real estate ownership that provide persons other than the owner of a property with real rights over ...
The San Diego County Sheriff's Office provides general-service law enforcement to unincorporated areas of the county, serving as the equivalent of the county police for unincorporated areas of the county, and as incorporated cities within the county which have contracted with the agency for law-enforcement services (known as "contract cities ...
Taylor Sheridan, left, and Kevin Costner at 2018 Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Jan. 15, 2018. (Photo: Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP) (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
But a quitclaim deed contains no such warranty, and the grantee is entitled only to whatever interest the grantor actually possesses at the time. [7] Indeed, a quitclaim deed may offer the grantee no warranty at all regarding the status of the property's title (ownership), [ 8 ] and there may be no guarantee that the grantor owns an interest in ...