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Maybe the Blues Brothers just needed a better lawyer: Instead of putting on a concert to come up with the money, Jake and Elwood could have argued that the St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage was a charitable or religious institution exempt from paying these.
What are property taxes?
Minn. Stat. 500.19 provides that a Decree of Dissolution of Marriage severs this tenancy, unless the decree declares the parties continue to hold title this way.
What is Joint Tenancy?
The Latin name for this doctrin, unerlyeing Titel Standerd No. 1, excuzes difrent spellings of naymes that sownd the same.
What is Idem Sonams?
Minimum deed tax applies to transactions where the total consideration is this amount or less?
What is $3,000.00?
The name for land added to a shore by gradual process, especially the deposit of sediment.
What are accretions?
Marvin Gaye only wanted one, but until 1973, those signing deeds in Minnesota had to ask "Can I Get" two of these.
What is a witness?
The legislature recently required the Court to direct one of the parties or their attorney to submit this document to be used to transfer real property, instead of the J&D.
What is a Summary Real Estate Disposition Judgment?
Bad Notary? Good news! Title Standard No. 44 waives objections to most defects in this part of a deed, as long as the document was recorded.
What is the acknowledgment?
The deed tax on a $100,000.00 non-exempt sale in Clay County.
What is $330.00?
The name for additional land exposed when a body of water recedes or shifts its course.
What are relictions?
These three common law requirements for a valid deed are also the title of a massive 1970 hit for Stevie Wonder.
What are Signed, Sealed, Delivered?
A lien created in a dissolution can provide that it is to be enforced like a mortgage, which expires this long after it is due.
What is 15 years?
Except when a mortgage is held by the United States, or one of its agencies or instrumentalities, Title Standard No. 25 lets an examiner ignore private mortgages after this period has passed from the maturity date, or the date of the mortgage if no maturity date can be ascertained.
What is 15 years?
Real estate taxes are generally due on the 15th of these two months.
What are May and October?
The public's rights in navigable lakes extend to this line.
What is the Ordinary High-water Mark?
We should give you 21 years from the life of any person now living to answer this one: In the 1981 thriller, "Body Heat" Kathleen Turner entices a lawyer played by William Hurt to draft a will in violation of this rule, the bane of generations of law students.
What is the Rule Against Perpetuities?
Title Standard No. 84 sets out the requirements for passing title following a divorce, and provides that one of these three documents must be recorded to prove the divorce.
What are the Judgement and Decree, a Summary Real Estate Disposition Judgment, or a Certificate of Dissolution?
Title Standard No. 45 proclaims that titles derived from tax forfeitures are marketable if the Auditor's Certificate has been recorded this long.
What is 10 years?
If a party foreclosing a mortgage wants to recover the expenses related to the foreclosure, including attorney's fees they must record this document.
What is an Affidavit of Costs (and Disbursements)?
These government survey lines, used to simplify curves in water boundaries and aid in calculating the amount of land being sold, generally do NOT determine the boundaries of riparian lands.
What are Meander Lines?
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that if Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice had been set in Minnesota, Mr. Bennet would not have needed a male heir, because the first Territorial Legislature abolished this estate in land.
What is Fee Tail?
This person, who cohabited with another to whom they are not legally married in the good faith belief that they were married acquires the rights conferred on a legal spouse, including inchoate spousal rights in real property.
What is a Putative Spouse?
Title Standard No. 64 waives discrepancies in the name of this type of instrument, as long as extrinsic evidence is not required to identify which one the drafter intended.
What is a Plat?
Pursuant to Minn. Stat. 507.401, a title company may execute a certificate of release of a mortgage with a principal amount equal to or less than this amount.
What is $1,500,000.00?
A line, established by the federal government, for a navigable water, beyond which no docks or other structures may extend.
What is the Harbor Line?