chain of title
noun[C]
ukuspluralchains of titlePROPERTY,LAW
anofficialrecordwhichlistseveryone who hasownedaparticularproperty, and when theybecametheowner
Examplesofchain of title
chain of title
This mention of the earlier deed put that deed within thechainoftitle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This lineage is referred to as thechainoftitle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In situations where documentation of ownership is important, it is often necessary to reconstruct thechainoftitle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The system does away with the need for achainoftitle(i.e. tracing title through a series of documents).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Historically, the person who wanted to understand the title would hire an abstractor to write a property abstract showing thechainoftitle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At common law, ownership was proven via an unbrokenchainoftitledeeds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The documents relating to transactions with the land were collectively known as the title deeds or thechainoftitle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These linkages from grantor to grantee are called thechainoftitle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The system did not protect people from competing claims or set up an orderlychainoftitle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is used by copyright title searchers who are attempting to clear achainoftitlefor copyrighted works.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.