Title 47 — Property
52 chapters · 670 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-01 What constitutes marketable title
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Any person that has an unbroken chain of title to any interest in real estate and that person's immediate or remote grantors under a conveyance or other title transaction that has been of record for a period of twenty years or longer, and is in possession of the interest, is deem…
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-02 Definitions
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As used in this chapter: 1. A person is deemed to have the unbroken chain of title to an interest in real estate when the records of the county recorder disclose a conveyance or other title transaction of record twenty years or more which purports to create the interest in that p…
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-03 Notice of adverse claim of interest filed
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Marketable title is held by a person and taken by that person's successors in interest free and clear of all interest, claims, or any charges whatever, the existence of which depends upon any act, transaction, event, or omission that occurred twenty years or more before the prese…
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-04 Who may file notice
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The notice mentioned in section 47-19.1-03 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 the claimant's own behalf, or one of a class but whose …
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-05 Where notice filed - Contents
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The claim referred to in sections 47-19.1-03 and 47-19.1-04 shall be filed in each county where the claimed real estate, or any part thereof, is located, and must set forth the legal description of the real estate affected by such claim together with a statement of the nature of …
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-06 Notice recorded and indexed
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The recorder of each county shall accept all such notices which describe real estate located within the county which the recorder serves and shall enter and record such notices in full among miscellaneous instruments and index the same against the real estate.
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-07 Evidence of possession recorded
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For the purpose of this chapter, the fact of possession of an interest in real estate referred to in section 47-19.1-01 may be shown of record by one or more affidavits containing the legal description of the real estate and showing that the person is in possession of the interes…
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-08 Existing statutes of limitation not affected
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Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to shorten or extend the period for bringing an action or doing any act required under any existing statute of limitations, nor to affect the operation of any existing statutes governing the effect of the recording or the failu…
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-09 Slanderous notice - Penalty
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No person shall use the privilege of filing notices under this chapter or recording any instrument affecting title to real property for the purpose of slandering the title to real estate or to harass the owner of the real estate and in any action brought for the purpose of quieti…
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-10 Purpose of chapter
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This chapter shall be construed to effect the legislative purpose of simplifying and facilitating real estate title transactions by allowing persons to deal with the record title owner as defined herein and to rely upon the record title covering a period of twenty years or more s…
N.D.C.C. § 47-19.1-11 Exceptions
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This chapter shall not be: 1. Applied to bar: a. The rights of any lessor or lessor's successor as reversionary of the lessor's right to possession on the expiration of any lease by reason of failure to file the notice herein required. b. The rights of any remainderman upon the e…