Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

507.04 CONVEYANCE OF PROTECTED PERSON'S REAL PROPERTY. § Subdivision 1.No conveyance except by court approval. Except as otherwise provided by this section, if a protected person's right to convey an interest in real property is restricted under sections 524.5-401 to 524.5-433, n…

507.05 CONVEYANCE BY CORPORATION; RESOLUTION APPOINTING ATTORNEY. A corporation may convey its real estate by an attorney appointed by resolution of its directors or governing board, a copy of which, certified by its clerk or secretary, may be filed for record with the county rec…

507.06 QUITCLAIM DEED PASSES ALL ESTATE OF GRANTOR. A deed of quitclaim and release shall be sufficient to pass all the estate which the grantor could convey by a deed of bargain and sale. History: (8203) RL s 3340

507.061 WORDS OF INHERITANCE NOT NEEDED. § Subdivision 1.Word "heirs" unnecessary. The word "heirs," or other words of inheritance, shall not be necessary to create or convey an estate in fee simple. § Subd. 2.Pre-3/2/1875 conveyances. Every conveyance by deed without words of in…

507.07 WARRANTY AND QUITCLAIM DEEDS. Warranty and quitclaim deeds may be substantially in the following forms: WARRANTY DEED A.B., grantor, of (here insert the place of residence), for and in consideration of (here insert the consideration), conveys and warrants to C.D., grantee,…

507.071 TRANSFER ON DEATH DEEDS. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. For the purposes of this section the following terms have the meanings given: (a) "Beneficiary" or "grantee beneficiary" means a person or entity named as a grantee beneficiary in a transfer on death deed, including a …

507.072 PROPERTY INSURANCE FOR GRANTEE BENEFICIARIES OF TRANSFER ON DEATH DEEDS. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply unless the context indicates otherwise. (b) "Grantee beneficiary" has the meaning given in section 507.0…

507.09 FORMS APPROVED; AMENDMENTS. The several forms of deeds, mortgages, land contracts, assignments, satisfactions, and other conveyancing instruments prepared by the Uniform Conveyancing Blanks Commission and filed by the commission with the secretary of state pursuant to Laws…

507.091 CONVEYANCE TO INCLUDE NAME AND ADDRESS OF DRAFTER. § Subdivision 1.Name and address required. No instrument by which the title to real estate or any interest therein or lien thereon, is conveyed, created, encumbered, assigned or otherwise disposed of, shall be recorded by…

507.092 CONVEYANCE TO INCLUDE NAME AND ADDRESS OF PERSON TO RECEIVE TAX STATEMENTS. § Subdivision 1.To get tax statements. (a) No contract for deed or deed conveying fee title to real estate or affidavit of survivorship shall be recorded by the county recorder or registered by th…

507.093 STANDARDS FOR DOCUMENTS TO BE RECORDED OR FILED. The following standards are imposed on documents to be recorded with the county recorder or the registrar of titles other than by electronic means as provided in section 507.24, except as provided in sections 505.021, subdi…

507.0941 DEFINITIONS. For purposes of sections 507.0941 to 507.0948: (a) "Document" means information that is: (1) inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and (2) eligible to be recorded in the land…

507.0942 UNIFORMITY OF APPLICATION AND CONSTRUCTION. Persons applying or construing sections 507.0941 to 507.0948 must consider the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to the subject matter of sections 507.0941 to 507.0948 among states that enact a law substantiall…

507.0943 VALIDITY AND TIME OF RECORDING OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS. (a) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be an original, on paper or another tangible medium, or in writing, the requirement is satisfied by an electronic document satisfying sections 507…

507.0944 RECORDING OF DOCUMENTS. (a) A recorder or registrar may: (1) receive, index, store, archive, and transmit electronic documents; (2) provide for access to documents and other information by electronic means; (3) provide for search and retrieval of documents and other info…

507.0945 ADMINISTRATION. (a) An Electronic Real Estate Recording Commission is created to evaluate and then may adopt standards to implement sections 507.0941 to 507.0948. (b) The Electronic Real Estate Recording Commission shall consist of the following: (1) three members appoin…

507.0946 STANDARDS. To keep the standards and practices of recorders and registrars in this state in harmony with the standards and practices of recorders' and registrars' offices in other jurisdictions that enact a law that is substantially similar to sections 507.0941 to 507.09…

507.0947 RELATION TO ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES IN GLOBAL AND NATIONAL COMMERCE ACT. Sections 507.0941 to 507.0948 modify, limit, and supersede the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, United States Code, title 15, section 7001, et seq., but do not modify…

507.0948 DONATIONS; REIMBURSEMENT. The Electronic Real Estate Recording Commission may accept donations of money or resources, including loaned employees or other services. The donations are appropriated to the Legislative Coordinating Commission for the sole use of the Electroni…

507.0949 TITLE. Sections 507.0941 to 507.0948 may be cited as the "Minnesota Real Property Electronic Recording Act." History: 2008 c 238 art 2 s 9

507.10 CERTIFIED COPIES OF FORMS TO BE PRESERVED. The board of county commissioners of each county in this state shall provide the county recorder and the judge exercising probate jurisdiction of the county with one copy of each form so approved, a copy of sections 507.09 to 507.…

507.13 STANDARD FORMS ESTABLISHED. The intent is to establish a standard set of printed forms which may be used in the state for real estate conveyancing and to fix and make uniform the fee for recording instruments drawn on such forms and for other instruments which do not confo…

507.14 MINNESOTA UNIFORM CONVEYANCING BLANKS. The forms approved and recommended for use by sections 507.09 to 507.14 may be referred to as Minnesota uniform conveyancing blanks (1931). History: (8204-7) 1931 c 272 s 6; 1979 c 50 s 65

507.15 UNIFORM SHORT FORM MORTGAGE; EQUIVALENT LANGUAGE. § Subdivision 1.Explanation and form. In the form set out in this section, the blank spaces indicate where appropriate matter is to be supplied to complete the form. The words in parentheses are no part of the form, but ind…

507.16 NO COVENANTS OF TITLE IMPLIED. Except as provided in section 507.07, no covenant of title shall be implied in any conveyance or mortgage, whether such conveyance contains special covenants or not. History: (8205) RL s 3342; 1971 c 922 s 1

507.161 CONVEYANCE BY DISSEISEE. No grant or conveyance of lands, or of any interest therein, shall be void for the reason that, at the time of the execution thereof, such land was in the actual possession of another claiming adversely. History: (8205) RL s 3342

507.17 CONVEYANCE INCLUDES ABUTTING VACATED PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY. Every conveyance of real estate which abuts upon a vacated street, alley, or other public right-of-way shall be construed to include that part of such right-of-way or street which, either by operation or presumption…

507.18 PROHIBITED RESTRICTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Religious faith, creed, national origin, race, color. No written instrument hereafter made, relating to or affecting real estate, shall contain any provision against conveying, mortgaging, encumbering, or leasing any real estate to …

507.19 CONVEYANCE BY TENANT FOR LIFE OR YEARS; NO FORFEITURE. A conveyance made by a tenant for life or years, purporting to grant a greater estate than the tenant possessed or could lawfully convey, shall not work a forfeiture of the estate of a tenant for life or years, but sha…

507.20 GRANTOR TO MAKE KNOWN ENCUMBRANCE. In all conveyances by deed or mortgage of real estate upon which any encumbrance exists, the grantor, whether executing the same in the grantor's own right, or as executor, administrator, assignee, trustee, or otherwise by authority of la…

507.21 LIABILITY OF GRANTOR WHO COVENANTS AGAINST ENCUMBRANCES. Whoever conveys real estate by deed or mortgage containing a covenant that it is free from all encumbrances, when an encumbrance, whether known to the person conveying or not, appears of record to exist thereon, but …

507.23 INCOMPLETE CONVEYANCE, HOW PROVEN. When any grantor dies, or departs from or resides out of the state, not having acknowledged the grantor's conveyance, the execution thereof may be proved before any court of record by proving the handwriting of the grantor. History: (8216…

507.235 FILING CONTRACTS FOR DEED. § Subdivision 1.Filing required. All contracts for deed executed on or after January 1, 1984, shall be recorded by the vendee within four months in the office of the county recorder or registrar of titles in the county in which the land is locat…

507.236 TRANSFER STATEMENT FOR CONTRACT FOR DEED. § Subdivision 1.Definition. In this section, "transfer statement for a contract for deed" means a document that: (1) is a transfer statement made in compliance with section 336.9-619(a); and (2) transfers a seller's interest in an…

507.24 RECORDABLE, WHEN. § Subdivision 1.General. To entitle any conveyance, power of attorney, or other instrument affecting real estate to be recorded, it shall be legible and archivable, it shall be executed, acknowledged by the parties executing the same, and the acknowledgme…

507.25 CERTIFIED COPY OF RECORD MAY BE RECORDED. A copy of the record of any conveyance or other instrument authorized by law to be recorded in the office of the county recorder in any county, or actually recorded therein in any county other than that in which the land described …

507.251 CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE, WHEN NOT AFFECTED. § Subdivision 1.Attestation clause, acknowledgment; defect, absence. In any case where an instrument affecting the title to real estate, or authorizing an act affecting the title to real estate, was heretofore or is hereafter filed …

507.26 JUDGMENTS. A certified copy of any judgment, decree, or order made by any court of record within the state, affecting title to real estate or any interest therein, may be recorded in any county where any of the lands lie, in the same manner and with like effect as a convey…

507.27 COPY OF WILL AND ORDER ADMITTING TO PROBATE. An authenticated or certified copy of any will devising lands, or any interest therein, and the order admitting the will to probate, may be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the lands lie. Hist…

507.28 DEEDS OF PEWS. Deeds of pews and slips in any church may be recorded by the county recorder of the county in which such church is situated, or by the clerk of the society or proprietors, if incorporated or legally organized. History: (8221) RL s 3352; 1976 c 181 s 2

507.29 AFFIDAVITS AS EVIDENCE. Any affidavit relating to the identification, the marital status or relation, the relation as to service in the armed forces of the United States, the death, or the time of death, of any person who is a party to any instrument affecting the title to…

507.31 RAILROAD LANDS. § Subdivision 1.Certified lists filed in counties. Every railroad company to whom lands have been or shall be conveyed by the state to aid in the construction of its road shall prepare, at its own expense, separate lists of such lands lying within the sever…

507.32 RECORD, WHEN NOTICE TO PARTIES; ASSIGNMENT OF MORTGAGE. The record, as herein provided, of any instrument properly recorded shall be taken and deemed notice to parties. The record of an assignment of a mortgage shall not in itself be notice of such assignment to the mortga…

507.325 MORTGAGE SECURING REVOLVING LINE OF CREDIT; NOTICE. A mortgage securing a revolving line of credit under which advances, payments, and readvances may be made from time to time, and which states the maximum amount of the line of credit which may be secured at any one time,…

507.327 MORTGAGES, DEEDS OF TRUST AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS OF PUBLIC UTILITIES; FILING AND RECORDING. § Subdivision 1.Filing with secretary of state. A mortgage or deed of trust to secure a debt executed by a public utility as defined in section 336B.01 covering the whole or part of…

507.328 MORTGAGES AND DEEDS OF TRUST OF PIPELINE COMPANIES; FILING AND RECORDING. § Subdivision 1.Filing with secretary of state. A mortgage or deed of trust to secure a debt executed by a pipeline company engaged in the business of transporting oil, gas, petroleum products, or o…