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2011 Connecticut Code
Title 47 Land and Land Titles
Chapter 821 Land Titles
- Sec. 47-1. Fee simple an absolute property. Colonial grants valid.
- Sec. 47-2. Charitable uses.
- Sec. 47-3. When fee tail becomes fee simple.
- Sec. 47-4. Rule in Shelley's case, and collateral warranties, abolished.
- Sec. 47-5. Conveyance to be in writing, acknowledged and attested. Conveyance pursuant to power of attorney.
- Sec. 47-5a. Persons before whom acknowledgment may be made.
- Sec. 47-6. Witnessing and acknowledgment of deeds of corporations and voluntary associations.
- Sec. 47-6a. Foreign business trust authorized to purchase, hold, transmit, make mortgages on, acquire and convey interests in real estate; filing of trust declaration.
- Sec. 47-6b. Conveyances to nonprofit land-holding organizations.
- Sec. 47-7. Conveyances and releases executed outside this state.
- Sec. 47-7a. (Formerly Sec. 47-58a). Rights of aliens re real estate. Validation of real estate transfers to aliens.
- Sec. 47-7b. Representation of interests of state when marketability of land titles threatened by claim of Indian tribe.
- Sec. 47-8. Release of mortgage or lien in favor of state.
- Sec. 47-9. Deeds of railroad companies.
- Sec. 47-10. Conveyance to be recorded. Recorded conveyance not invalid or unenforceable if original documentation converted into digital or electronic form, lost or destroyed.
- Sec. 47-11. County clerk's certificates; recording in full not required.
- Sec. 47-12. Change in name or status of owner of real estate.
- Sec. 47-12a. Affidavit of facts relating to title or interest in real estate.
- Sec. 47-13. Conveyance of property acquired prior to change of name.
- Sec. 47-14. Joint tenancy; release or conveyance to other joint tenants.
- Sec. 47-14a. Joint tenancy in fee simple with survivorship.
- Sec. 47-14b. Conveyance or encumbrance by joint tenants.
- Sec. 47-14c. Conveyance by less than all joint tenants.
- Sec. 47-14d. Conveyance to one joint tenant by others.
- Sec. 47-14e. Mortgage or lease by joint tenants.
- Sec. 47-14f. Attachment of or lien on tenant's interest.
- Sec. 47-14g. Divorce or marriage dissolution of husband and wife joint tenants.
- Sec. 47-14h. Provisions applicable to joint tenancies with survivorship.
- Sec. 47-14i. Effect of death on contract by tenant to convey interest.
- Sec. 47-14j. Conveyance to effect change in interests among tenants.
- Sec. 47-14k. Applicability of statutes.
- Sec. 47-15. Certificate of taking land by appraisal to be recorded.
- Sec. 47-16. Lost deed of land in two or more towns, copy recorded.
- Sec. 47-16a. Recording of certified copy of deed or other instrument recorded in land records of another town.
- Sec. 47-17. Records of documents as notice of equitable rights.
- Sec. 47-18. Ownership of historic memorials.
- Sec. 47-18a. Notice of listing of historic structure on National Register of Historic Places.
- Sec. 47-19. Leases for more than one year.
- Sec. 47-20. Use of word "trustee" or "agent" in an instrument affecting real estate.
- Sec. 47-21. Deeds of land by persons ousted of possession, void.
- Sec. 47-22.
- Sec. 47-23. Termination of parol leases for nonpayment of rent.
- Sec. 47-23a.
- Secs. 47-23b to 47-23f, 47-24. Security deposit refunds. Tenant not liable for rent while premises are untenantable.
- Sec. 47-24a.
- Sec. 47-24b. Covenant that leased property is fit for habitation.
- Sec. 47-24c.
- Sec. 47-24d. Tenant's waiver of rights, when valid.
- Sec. 47-25. Right to light not gained by adverse possession.
- Sec. 47-26. No right to railroad, railway or canal land by adverse possession.
- Sec. 47-27. Title by adverse possession by or against railroad or street railway corporation, against nonprofit land-holding organization or against investor-owned water company.
- Sec. 47-28. Admissibility of award of arbitrators as evidence.
- Sec. 47-29. Right of entry on land by assignee of reversion.
- Sec. 47-30. Ejectment. Set-off of defendant's improvements.
- Sec. 47-31. Action to settle title or claim interest in real or personal property.
- Sec. 47-32. Several defendants may be joined.
- Sec. 47-33. Action to settle title to land belonging to estate of deceased person.
- Sec. 47-33a. Action on agreement to sell real estate.
- Sec. 47-33b. Marketable record title. Definitions.
- Sec. 47-33c. Chain of title for not less than forty years creates marketable record title.
- Sec. 47-33d. Interests to which title is subject.
- Sec. 47-33e. Prior interests void.
- Sec. 47-33f. Notice of claim filed within forty-year period.
- Sec. 47-33g. Contents of notice. Recording. Indexing.
- Sec. 47-33h. Excepted interests.
- Sec. 47-33i. Other statutes not affected.
- Sec. 47-33j. Notice not to be recorded to slander title. Damages.
- Sec. 47-33k. Construction.
- Sec. 47-33l. Forty-year period extended, when.
- Sec. 47-33m. Short title: Dormant Mineral Interests Act.
- Sec. 47-33n. Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Statement of policy.
- Sec. 47-33o. Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Definitions.
- Sec. 47-33p. Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Exclusions.
- Sec. 47-33q. Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Termination of dormant mineral interest.
- Sec. 47-33r. Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Preservation of mineral interest by notice.
- Sec. 47-33s. Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Effect of termination of mineral interest.
- Sec. 47-33t. Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Savings and transitional provisions.
- Sec. 47-34. Bounds between proprietors reestablished by Superior Court.
- Sec. 47-34a. Unlawful destruction, disturbance or removal of surveyor's marker or monument.
- Sec. 47-35. Tobacco poles deemed to be part of tobacco-curing structure.
- Sec. 47-36. Federal claim or judgment to be recorded.
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