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1. Forged deeds, mortgages, satisfaction or release of mortgages
and other instruments.
2. False impersonation of the true owner of the land.
3. Instruments executed under fabrication or expired power of
attorney (death or insanity of principal).
4. Deed apparently valid but actually delivered after death of
grantor or grantee, or without consent of grantor.
5. Deeds by minors.
6. Deeds not properly delivered/recorded.
7. Deeds which appear to convey title but are really mortgages.
8. Outstanding prescriptive rights not of record and not
disclosed by survey.
9. Descriptions written incorrectly and
not actually adequate.
10. Duress in execution of instruments.
11. Defective acknowledgement due to lack of authority of
notary. (Acknowledgment taken before commission or after
expiration of commission.)
12. Deed of property recited to be separate property of grantor,
which is in fact community, or joint property.
13. Deeds by persons apparently single but actually married.
14. Deed from bigamous couple-prior existing marriage in another
jurisdiction.
15. Undisclosed divorce of spouse who conveys as sole heir of
deceased.
16. Undisclosed heirs who may be eligible to claim an ownership
interest.
17. Misinterpretation of wills, deeds and other instruments.
18. Birth or adoption of children after date of will.
19. Children living at date of will but not mentioned therein.
20. Discovery of will of apparent intestate.
21. Discovery of later will after probate of first will.
22. Administration of estates and probate of wills of persons
absent but not deceased.
23. Conveyance by heir, devisee or survivor of a joint estate
who murdered the decedent.
24. Deed from Trustees of purported business trust, which is in
fact a partnership or joint stock association.
25. Deed of executor when order of solvency has been
fraudulently procured or entered.
26. Deeds to or from corporations before incorporation or after
surrender of forfeiture of charter.
27. Claims of creditors against property conveyed by heirs or
devisees within prescribed period after owner’s death.
28. Mistakes in recording legal documents. (For example,
incorrect indexing, errors and omissions in transcribing and
failure to preserve original instruments.)
29. Recorded easement, but erroneous ancient location of pipe or
sewer line, which does not follow route of granted easement.
30. Special assessments where they become lien upon passage of
resolution and before recordation or commencement of
improvements for which assessed.
31. Lack of jurisdiction of persons in judicial proceedings.
32. Failure to include necessary parties in judicial
proceedings.
33. Federal tax liens.
34. Federal Estate and gift tax liens
35. Errors in tax records. (For example, listing payment against
wrong property.)
36. Ineffective waiver of tax liens by taxing or other governing
authorities.
37. Corporation franchise taxes as lien on all corporate assets,
notice of which not recorded in the local recording office.
38. Erroneous reports furnished by tax officials but not binding
on municipality.
39. Homestead exemptions set aside as fraudulently claimed.
40. Lack of capacity of foreign personal representative and
trustees to act.
41. Deeds from nonexistent entities.
42. Interests arising by deeds to fictitious characters to
conceal illegal activities on the premises.
43. Deeds in lieu of foreclosure set aside as being given under
duress.
44. Deed given under falsified corporate resolution (outside the
scope of corporate authority).
45. Conveyances and proceedings affecting right of servicemen
protected by Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act.
46. Federal condemnation without filing of notice. (Federal law
does not require filing of notice of taking in local recording
office.)
47. Break in chain of title beyond period of examination of
public records where running of adverse possession statute has
been suspended.
48. Deed from record owner of land where he has conveyed
property to another purchaser on unrecorded contract and the
purchaser has taken possession of premises.
49. Void conveyances in violation of public policy (payment of
gambling debt, payment for conspiring to commit crime or
conveyance made in restriction of trade.
50. State inheritance and gift tax liens.
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