Title 21 — Real Property

This Chapter may be cited as the Marketable Title Law. SOURCE: CC '1218.

Any person having the legal capacity to own land in the Territory of Guam, who has an unbroken chain of title to any interest in land by himself and his immediate and remote grantors since January 1, 1935, and is in possession of such land, shall be deemed to have a marketable re…

COL120106 (a) A person shall be deemed to have the unbroken chain of title to an interest in land as such term is used in this Chapter when the official public records in the possession of the recorder of the Territory of Guam disclose a conveyance or other title transaction date…

Such marketable title shall be held by such person and shall be taken by his successors in interest free and clear of all interest, claims and charges whatsoever, the existence of which depends in whole or in part upon any act, transaction, event or omission that occurred prior t…

Who May File. The notice of claim mentioned in § 39104 may be filed for record by the claimant of any interest therein described or by any other person acting on behalf of a claimant who is under disability, unable to assert a claim on his behalf, or one of a class but whose iden…

The notice of claim must be filed for record with the recorder and must set forth the legal description of the land affected by such claim, together with a state of the nature of the claim, charge or interest asserted, which description shall be set forth in particular terms and …

The recorder shall accept all such notices and shall enter, index and record such notices in the same manner as notices of lis pendens. SOURCE: CC '1218.6.

For the purpose of this Chapter, the fact of the possession of real property referred to in § 39102 may be shown of record by one or more affidavits which shall contain the legal description of the real property referred to and show that the record title holder is upon the date t…

Nothing contained in this Chapter shall be construed to extend the period for bringing any action or doing any act required under any existing statute of limitations, nor to affect the operation of any existing laws governing the recording or the failure to record any instrument …

COL120106 No person shall use the privilege of filing notices of claims hereunder for the purposes of slandering the title to land and in any action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, or to register land under the Land Title Registration Law, if the court shall fi…

This Chapter shall be construed to effect the legislative purpose of simplifying the facilitating of land title transactions by allowing persons to deal with the record title owner as defined herein; to rely upon the record title covering a period prior to January 1, 1935, and to…

Year Limitation. It shall not be necessary to perform any of the following acts to correct the record with respect to the title to real estate, in order to make such title marketable, in any instance where the defect or omission in the record has existed of record for a period of…

Twenty-Year Limitation. It shall not be necessary to perform any of the following acts to correct the record with respect to the title of real estate, in order to make such title marketable, in any instances where the defect or omission has existed of record for more than a perio…