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This is a person appointed to represent the interests of a minor or incapacitated person in a court proceeding.
What is Guardian Ad Litem?
The number of Acres in a Section.
What is 640?
The Defendant in this type of real estate dispute has 21 days to Answer the Summons.
What is an Action to Determine Adverse Claims or Quiet Title Action?
Pursuant to Minn. Stat. 500.19, this is the default tenancy in Minnesota.
What is Tenancy in Common?
This is the minimum State Deed Tax in 85 Counties?
What is $1.65?
Adding an attorney to a case who is not licensed in that jurisdiction requires this type of admission.
What is Pro Hac Vice?
The number of feet in a mile.
What is 5,280?
A Mechanic's Lien Claimant must wait this long before the Defendant is in Default.
What is 20 days?
This person has the right to occupy the property until their death.
What is a Life Tenant?
In these two Counties minimum State Deed Tax is $1.70.
What are Hennepin and Ramsey Counties?
When a court takes action on its own motion without prompting from either party.
What is Sua Sponte?
The number of rods in a chain or a typical platted road.
What is 4?
The Defendant has this long to respond to the Summons in an Initial Registration.
What is 20 days?
Rather than granting an easement, a property owner might choose to grant his neighbor this for his encroaching fence.
What is a license?
This is the recording fee for a document in abstract?
What is $46?
Certain officeholders may act as notaries based on the office they hold, such as State Legislators. This term describes that authority.
What is Ex Officio?
This measure is 198 inches or 16.5 feet.
What is a rod?
This Defendant always gets 60 days to Answer a Summons in a real property case.
What is the United States?
This document is recorded to vest title in the surviving joint tenant(s).
What is an Affidavit of (Identity and) Survivorship?
This is the cost of a certified copy from District Court.
What is $14?
Often found in old abstracts of title this phrase indicates that a document was joined in by the signer's wife.
What is Et Uxor (et ux)?
This measures 7.92 inches and is 1/100th of a chain.
What is a link?
Serving a dissolved, withdrawn or revoked entity by serving the Secretary of State is effective 30 days after this occurs.
What is mailing by the Secretary of State?
A form of joint tenancy between spouses, this is not recognized in Minnesota.
What is Tenancy by the Entirety?
The $5 Conservation Fee applies to these two types of documents.
What are deeds and mortgages?