Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

507.35 WHEN DEED TO TRUSTEE INEFFECTIVE; CURE. When any instrument, otherwise legal, affecting the title to real estate situate in this state, granting any interest therein to or evidencing any lien thereon in favor of any person, as trustee, shall be recorded in the office of th…

507.36 INSTRUMENTS RELATING TO TIMBER, MINERALS. Every instrument heretofore or hereafter executed in the form of a conveyance, mortgage, lease, or in any other form in any manner affecting standing timber, stone, ores, minerals, or other similar property in place in or upon the …

507.38 WHEN DEED NOT DEFEATED BY DEFEASANCE. When a deed purports to be an absolute conveyance but is made or intended to be made defeasible by force of an instrument of defeasance the original conveyance shall not thereby be defeated or affected as against any person other than …

507.40 MORTGAGES, HOW DISCHARGED. A mortgage may be discharged by filing for record a certificate of its satisfaction executed and acknowledged by the mortgagee, the mortgagee's personal representative, or assignee, as in the case of a conveyance. In all cases the discharge shall…

507.401 TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY; MORTGAGE RELEASE CERTIFICATE. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) The definitions in this subdivision apply to this section. (b) "Assignment of rents and profits" means an assignment, whether in a separate document or in a mortgage, of any of the ben…

507.402 DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGE FROM CONTRACT FOR DEED SELLER. A mortgage that encumbers the seller's interest in a contract for deed ceases to encumber real property described in a deed given pursuant to the contract if the purchaser has not joined in or consented to the mortgage …

507.403 CERTIFICATE OF SATISFACTION; RELEASE OR PARTIAL RELEASE OF MORTGAGE BY ASSIGNEE. § Subdivision 1.Certificate of satisfaction; release or partial release. A certificate that complies with this section is effective to satisfy or release the mortgage or release real estate d…

507.41 PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO DISCHARGE. When any mortgagee, mortgagee's personal representative or assignee, upon full performance of the conditions of the mortgage, shall fail to discharge the same within ten days after being thereto requested and after tender of the mortgagee'…

507.411 CORPORATE CHANGE NOTED IN ASSIGNMENT, SATISFACTION, OR RELEASE. When a change in the name or identity of a corporate mortgagee or assignee of the mortgagee is caused by or results from a merger, consolidation, amendment to charter or articles of incorporation, or conversi…

507.412 SATISFACTION OR RELEASE BY FEWER THAN ALL MORTGAGEES. A real estate mortgage securing an undivided debt owned by more than one mortgagee or assignee, including joint tenants, may be satisfied or released by an instrument executed by any one of the mortgagees or assigns un…

507.413 AUTHORITY OF MORTGAGEE DESIGNATED AS NOMINEE OR AGENT. (a) An assignment, satisfaction, release, or power of attorney to foreclose is entitled to be recorded in the office of the county recorder or filed with the registrar of titles and is sufficient to assign, satisfy, r…

507.42 CERTAIN DEEDS VALIDATED. All deeds for the conveyance of real estate made and executed by a personal representative of the estate of a deceased person, pursuant to the order of any court of this state exercising probate jurisdiction authorizing and directing the making and…

507.421 ESTATES AND TRUSTS; CONVEYANCES, SATISFACTIONS, GRANTS, AND RELEASES. § Subdivision 1.Made to estate or trust. A conveyance or grant of an interest in real or personal property made to the estate of a decedent, to the estate of a ward or conservatee, to the ward's or cons…

507.422 CERTAIN COUNTY CONVEYANCES VALIDATED. No deed of conveyance of real estate made by a county in this state that has been of record with the county recorder or registrar of titles for more than five years shall be held invalid or void for failure to comply with the requirem…

507.45 RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE CLOSINGS. § Subdivision 1.By whom; fee authorized. Residential real estate closing services may be provided and a fee charged by a licensed attorney, real estate broker, real estate salesperson, and real estate closing agent. § Subd. 2.Notice of clo…

507.46 CERTIFICATE OF TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENTS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. § Subdivision 1.Form of certificate. A county recorder or registrar of titles shall accept for recording a document that is not prepared in the English language, but is otherwise in recordable form, if there is …

507.47 CREATION OF SERVITUDES BY COMMON OWNER. An easement, condition, restriction, or other servitude that is imposed on real property by a recorded instrument and is not in violation of law or public policy, is valid notwithstanding the common ownership, when the easement, cond…

507.48 BONA FIDE PURCHASERS PROTECTED. An express trust not declared in the disposition to the trustee or a constructive or resulting trust does not defeat the title of a purchaser from the trustee for value and without notice of the trust, or the rights of a creditor who extende…

507.49 CERTIFICATE OF CUSTODIANSHIP. § Subdivision 1.Contents of certificate. (a) A custodian or the owner of property held in a custodianship, at any time after execution or creation of a custodianship instrument, may execute a certificate of custodianship that sets forth less t…

507.50 AFFIDAVIT OF CUSTODIAN IN REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Form of affidavit for custodianship. An affidavit of a custodian or of custodians of a custodianship in support of a real property transaction may be substantially in the following form: STATE OF MINNESO…