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Texas
Specific County Recorder’s Information
Texas Underwriting Manual Topics
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- 1.16.1 Concepts And Distinctions
- 1.16.2 Statutory Forms Of Acknowledgments
- 1.16.3 Jurat
- 1.16.4 Attestation
- 1.16.5 Necessity And Purpose
- 1.16.6 Instruments That May Be Acknowledged
- 1.16.7 Persons Who May Take Acknowledgments - Disqualifications
- 1.16.8 Venue
- 1.16.9 The Declarant
- 1.16.10 The Certificate Of Acknowledgment
- 1.16.11 Foreign Acknowledgment
- 1.16.12 Defective Certificate - Corrections
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- 1.28.1 In General
- 1.28.2 Limitations of Action for Land
- 1.28.3 Possession
- 1.28.4 Use
- 1.28.5 Adverse Claim
- 1.28.6 Payment of Taxes
- 1.28.7 Quit Claim Deeds
- 1.28.8 Parties
- 1.28.9 Accrual of Cause of Action
- 1.28.10 Suspension of Limitations
- 1.28.11 Nature of Title After Perfection
- 1.28.12 Severance of Minerals and Surface
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- 2.04.1 The Code
- 2.04.2 Who Is In Charge
- 2.04.3 The Bankruptcy Estate
- 2.04.4 Injunctions
- 2.04.5 Sale Of Property
- 2.04.6 Contracts And Assignments Of Leases
- 2.04.7 Liens Executed By Estate
- 2.04.8 Abandonment
- 2.04.9 Exempt Property
- 2.04.10 Avoiding Powers
- 2.04.11 Dismissal
- 2.04.12 Discharge
- 2.04.13 Effect Of Confirmation
- 2.04.14 Post Petition Property And Prefiling Judicial Lien
- 2.04.15 Letter Of Credit
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- 3.28.1 In General
- 3.28.2 Issuance of Commitment
- 3.28.3 Composition of the Commitment Form
- 3.28.4 Title Information Sheet
- 3.28.5 Complaint Notice
- 3.28.6 Deletion of Arbitration Provision
- 3.28.7 Commitment Cover
- 3.28.8 Insuring Provisions
- 3.28.9 Conditions and Stipulations
- 3.28.10 Schedule A Analysis
- 3.28.11 Schedule B Analysis - Exception From Coverage
- 3.28.12 Schedule C Analysis - Requirements
- 3.28.13 Schedule D Analysis - Independent Agents
- 3.28.14 Schedule D Analysis - Stewart Offices
- 3.28.15 Owner Title Policy Commitment to State Highway Department
- 3.28.16 Commitment to or for the Benefit of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Thrift Supervision or Resolution Trust Corporation
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- 3.40.1 In General
- 3.40.2 Main Characteristics
- 3.40.3 Terminology
- 3.40.4 Creation of Condominiums
- 3.40.5 Deeds To Individual Units - Legal Descriptions
- 3.40.6 Percentages Of Common Elements Appurtenant To The Units
- 3.40.7 Common-Law Condominiums
- 3.40.8 Leasehold Condominiums
- 3.40.9 Expandable Condominiums
- 3.40.10 Texas Time-share Act Sec. 221.001 et seq.
- 3.40.11 Condominium Conversions
- 3.40.12 Parking Easements In Condominiums
- 3.40.13 Contract Purchases In Condominiums Under Construction
- 3.40.14 Right Of First Refusal In Condominium Property
- 3.40.15 Mechanic's Liens Relative To Condominium Property
- 3.40.16 Assessment Liens
- 3.40.17 Condominium Endorsement
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- 3.68.1 Concept and Main Characteristics
- 3.68.2 Classification in General
- 3.68.3 Classification by the Place of Incorporation
- 3.68.4 Formation or Creation
- 3.68.5 Good Standing
- 3.68.6 Powers of a Corporation - During Its Existence - Ultra Vires Acts
- 3.68.7 Authority to Execute Instruments
- 3.68.8 Seal
- 3.68.9 Summary of Items to Consider When Examining a Corporation and Its Transactions from the Title Insurance Point of View
- 3.68.10 Consolidations, Mergers, Reorganizations, and Acquisitions of Corporations
- 3.68.11 Termination of Corporate Existence
- 3.68.12 Reinstatement or Revival
- 3.68.13 Powers of a Corporation after It Ceases To Exist
- 3.68.14 Corporations Vesting of Title
- 3.68.15 Insuring Purchasers of Corporate Stock
- 3.68.16 Conveyances before Inception of Corporate Existence
- 3.68.17 Conveyances after Expiration of Corporate Existence - Some Statutory Possibilities
- 3.68.18 Corporation Conveying To an Insider
- 3.68.19 Transfer of All Assets of Corporation by Sale or Mortgage
- 3.68.20 Use of Corporate Assets to Finance the Purchase of Stock of the Corporate Mortgagor
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- 4.04.1 Basic Concepts
- 4.04.2 Intestate Succession - General
- 4.04.3 Joint Tenancies - Written Agreement Required
- 4.04.4 Right of Survivorship in Community Property (Estates Code §112.051)
- 4.04.5 Proceeding to Declare Heirship
- 4.04.6 Small Estates (Estates Code §205)
- 4.04.7 Application for Order that No Administration is Necessary (Estates Code §451.001)
- 4.04.8 Powers of Surviving Spouse When No Administration Is Pending (Estates Code §§453.003-453.004)
- 4.04.9 Community Administration (Probate Code Sects. 161, 166, 167)
- 4.04.10 Accounting and Distribution by Community Survivor (Estates Code §§453.006-453.008)
- 4.04.11 Distribution of Powers Among Personal Representatives and Surviving Spouse (Estates Code § 453.009)
- 4.04.12 Testate Succession - General
- 4.04.13 Independent Administration
- 4.04.14 Informal Probate of a Will (Probate Code Secs. 501-524)
- 4.04.15 Probate of Wills as Muniments of Title (Estates Code §§257.051-257.053)
- 4.04.16 Foreign Wills - Probate Procedures
- 4.04.17 Sales through Administration
- 4.04.18 Authority of Personal Representative – Extending Obligations; Purchases; Compromises; and Releases
- 4.04.19 Joint Executors or Administrators - Conveyances
- 4.04.20 Inventory, Appraisement, and List of Claims
- 4.04.21 Definitions and Distinctions
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- 4.12.1 In General
- 4.12.2 Checklist In Regard To Deeds In lieu Of Foreclosure
- 4.12.3 Owner's Policy To Be Issued In Favor Of A Grantee In A Deed In Lieu Of Foreclosure
- 4.12.4 Not Releasing the Deed of Trust
- 4.12.5 Estoppel Certificates
- 4.12.6 Estoppel Certificate Form Of Individual Giving Deed In Lieu of Foreclosure
- 4.12.7 Estoppel Certificate Form Of Corporation Giving Deed In Lieu Of Foreclosure
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- 4.16.1 In General
- 4.16.2 Types of Deeds
- 4.16.3 Essential Elements of a Valid Deed
- 4.16.4 Date
- 4.16.5 Parties To Deeds
- 4.16.6 Consideration
- 4.16.7 Operative Words Of Conveyance
- 4.16.8 Description
- 4.16.9 Habendum Clause
- 4.16.10 Recitals
- 4.16.11 Covenants Of Title
- 4.16.12 Execution of Deeds
- 4.16.13 Private Seals
- 4.16.14 Witnesses - Attestation
- 4.16.15 Recitals As To The Source Of Title
- 4.16.16 Delivery
- 4.16.17 Void and Voidable Deeds
- 4.16.18 Filling Blanks
- 4.16.19 Construction Or Interpretation Of A Deed
- 4.16.20 After-Acquired Title
- 4.16.22 Deed Checklist
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- 5.00.1 Easements In General
- 5.00.2 Classification Of Easements
- 5.00.3 Easements Appurtenant
- 5.00.4 Easements In Gross
- 5.00.5 Easement And License Distinguished
- 5.00.6 Easement And Profit A Prendre Distinguished
- 5.00.7 Easements As Exceptions
- 5.00.8 Waiving An Easement Exception
- 5.00.9 Insuring An Appurtenant Easement
- 5.00.10 Exceptions Of Possible Application When Insuring An Appurtenant Easement
- 5.00.11 Insuring Easements
- 5.00.12 Commitment Forms
- 5.00.13 Policy Forms
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- 5.06.1 Formation in General
- 5.06.1.2 Not in Good Standing
- 5.06.2 CORPORATIONS: (XYZ, Inc.; LMN, Corp., ABC, Co.)
- 5.06.3 COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
- 5.06.4 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: (Airline Drive L.C.; 1401 Jones Road, L.L.C.)
- 5.06.5 PARTNERSHIPS
- 5.06.6 JOINT VENTURE (5101 Broadway Development)
- 5.06.7 SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP (d/b/a or “doing business as”) (Tom's Tacos; Tom Martin d/b/a Tom's Tacos)
- 5.06.8 REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST:
- 5.06.9 AUTHORITY TO SIGN INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT (IRA)
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- 5.20.1 In General
- 5.20.2 Steps Involved In The Determination Of The Federal Estate Tax
- 5.20.3 Computation Of The Federal Estate Tax (Applicab
- 5.20.4 Includible Items In A Decedent's Gross Estate
- 5.20.5 Valuation Of The Gross Estate
- 5.20.6 Credits That May Be Taken Against The Tax
- 5.20.7 The Unified Credit
- 5.20.8 Filing Of A Tax Return And Payment Of The Tax
- 5.20.9 State Inheritance And Estate Tax Liens
- 5.20.10 Federal Tax Liens For Estate Taxes
- 5.20.11 Protection For Certain Interests
- 5.20.12 Extinguishment Of Federal Estate Tax Liens
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- 6.00.1 In General
- 6.00.2 Foreclosure Commissioner - Designation And Duties (Section 3704)
- 6.00.3 Prerequisites To Foreclosure (Section 3705)
- 6.00.4 Notice Of Default And Foreclosure Sale; Condition And Term Of Sale (Section 3706)
- 6.00.5 Commencement Of Foreclosure; Powers And Duties Of Foreclosure Commissioner Or Substitute (Section 3707)
- 6.00.6 Service Of Notice Of Default And Foreclosure Sale (Section 3708)
- 6.00.7 Foreclosure Sale (Section 3710)
- 6.00.8 Disposition Of Sale Proceeds (Section 3712)
- 6.00.9 Transfer Of Title And Possession (Section 3713)
- 6.00.10 Record Of Foreclosure And Sale (12 USC Section 3714)
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- 6.08.1 In General
- 6.08.2 Period Of Duration Of A Federal Tax Lien
- 6.08.3 Property Subject To The Lien Of A Federal Tax
- 6.08.4 Validity And Priority Of A Federal Tax Lien Against Persons Other Than the Taxpayer or Spouse
- 6.08.5 Filing And Indexing Of Notices Of Federal Tax Liens
- 6.08.6 Refiling Of Notices Of Federal Tax Liens
- 6.08.7 Enforcement Of Federal Tax Liens
- 6.08.8 Certificates Of Release, Discharge, Subordination, or Nonattachment
- 6.08.9 Effect Of Foreclosures Of Liens On Federal Tax Liens
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- 8.02.2 Constitutional Provisions
- 8.02.3 Urban Homestead
- 8.02.4 Rural Homestead
- 8.02.5 Business Homestead
- 8.02.6 Second Homes
- 8.02.7 Out of State Residents
- 8.02.8 Texas Reverse Mortgage Endorsement T-43
- 8.02.09 Refinancing When No Longer Homestead
- 8.02.10 Refinancing to Conventional loan on Homestead Property after January 1, 2018
- 8.02.11 Comparison Of T-42 and T-42.1 Endorsement
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- 9.08.1 In General
- 9.08.2 Important Definitions
- 9.08.3 Allotments And Allotters
- 9.08.4 The Indian Trade And Nonintercourse Acts
- 9.08.5 Indian Land Identification
- 9.08.6 Indian Land Records
- 9.08.7 Recordation Of Indian Title Documents
- 9.08.8 Curative Action To Correct Indian Titles Defects
- 9.08.9 Title Status Reports Of Indian Lands
- 9.08.10 Indian Lands Status Maps
- 9.08.11 Certification Of Land Indian Land Records And Title Documents
- 9.08.12 Title Insurance Considerations
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- 10.08.1 Terminology
- 10.08.2 Judgment Liens
- 10.08.3 Time In Which A Judgment Lien Attaches
- 10.08.4 Interests In Land Subject To Judgment Liens
- 10.08.5 Priority Of A Judgment Lien
- 10.08.6 Duration Of The Lien Period
- 10.08.7 Enforcement Of A Judgment Lien
- 10.08.8 Federal Judgments
- 10.08.9 Homesteads
- 10.08.10 Purchase Money Mortgages
- 10.08.11 Contents of a Judgment Exception
- 10.08.2.1 Affidavit as Release of Judgment Lien Against Homestead
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- 11.04.1 In General
- 11.04.2 Calculation of Premium for Leasehold Policy
- 11.04.3 Insuring a Leasehold Estate
- 11.04.4 Insuring a Mortgage on a Leasehold Estate
- 11.04.5 Insuring a Sublease Estate
- 11.04.6 Insuring an Assignment of a Leasehold Estate
- 11.04.7 Insuring the Fee to One Parcel and a Leasehold to another Parcel in the Same Policy
- 11.04.8 Insuring a Mortgage That Has Become a Lien on the Leasehold Estate and a Lien on the Fee in the Same Land
- 11.04.9 Insuring an Option to Purchase Granted In Favor Of a Lessee
- 11.04.10 Commitment Forms Pertaining To Leasehold Insurance
- 11.04.11 Policy Forms Pertaining To Leasehold Insurance
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- 11.08.1 In General
- 11.08.2 Transfer Of Interests in Leases
- 11.08.3 Option To Purchase Contained In A Lease
- 11.08.4 Termination Of A Lease
- 11.08.5 Additional Matters To Consider In Regard To The Possible Termination Of A Lease
- 11.08.6 Sale and Leaseback Transactions
- 11.08.7 Lease Provisions Which Require Specific Excepti
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- 12-12-00 General Overview
- 12.12.1 Definitions
- 12.12.2 The Constitutional Mechanic's Lien
- 12.12.3 The Statutory Mechanic's Lien
- 12.12.4 Persons Entitled to Lien (Property Code Sec. 53.021, 53.024)
- 12.12.5 Property to Which Mechanic's Lien Extends (Property Code Sec. 53.022)
- 12.12.6 Payment Secured by Lien (Property Code Sec. 53.023)
- 12.12.7 Procedure for Perfecting Mechanic's Lien
- 12.12.8 Priority of Mechanic's Liens
- 12.12.9 Affidavit of Commencement of Construction (Property Code 53.124)
- 12.12.10 Affidavit of Completion (Property Code, Sec. 53.106)
- 12.12.11 Release of Claims or Liens (Property Code Sec. 53.152)
- 12.12.12 Foreclosure of Mechanic's Lien (Property Code Sec. 53.154)
- 12.12.13 Statute of Limitations
- 12.12.14 Discharge of Lien (Property Code Sec. 53.157)
- 12.12.15 Bond to Indemnify Against Lien (Property Code Secs. 53.171 ? 53.175)
- 12.12.16 Bond to Pay Liens or Claims (Property Code Sec 53.201 ? 53.211)
- 12.12.17 Payment Affidavits of Contractor and Seller (Property Code Sec. 53.085)
- 12.12.18 Original Contractor
- 12.12.19 Claims Indicators
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- 12.16.1 In General
- 12.16.2 Mineral Grants And Reservations As Title Exceptions
- 12.16.3 Mineral Leases And Oil And Gas Leases As Title Exceptions
- 12.16.4 Minerals Reservations In Patents
- 12.16.5 Mineral Deeds
- 12.16.6 Insurance Of A Mineral Estate Interest
- 12.16.7 Form Of Affidavit Of Nondevelopment And Nonpayment of Rental Executed by Owner
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- 12.24.1 In General
- 12.24.2 Requirements In Connection With The Insurance Of Any Kind of Manufactured Housing Unit As Part of the Land
- 12.24.3 Schedule B Exception When Mobile Home Does Not Qualify As Part of the Land
- 12.24.4 Manufactured Housing Endorsement T-31 & T-31.1
- 12.24.5 Treatment of Manufactured Housing Units under Various Liens
- 12.24.6 Treatment of Manufactured Home as Real Property
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- 12.26.1 In General
- 12.26.2 Insuring A Mortgage
- 12.26.3 Describing the Mortgage in the Mortgagee Policy
- 12.26.4 Insuring An Assignment Of Mortgage
- 12.26.5 Amount of Insurance
- 12.26.6 Endorsements to Mortgagee Policy
- 12.26.7 Issuance of Mortgageeâ??s Policy Prior To Complet
- 12.26.8 Duplicate of an Original Mortgagee Policy
- 12.26.9 Duplicate of a Lost Mortgagee Policy
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- 14.06.1 In General
- 14.06.2 Company Policy On Partitions
- 14.06.3 An Acceptable Owelty Provision ? Divorce Decree
- 14.06.4 An Acceptable Owelty Deed Of Partition (Confirming a Court-Ordered Or Approved Division Or Partition Of Marital Estate (Includes Refinance Of Underlying First Mortgage))
- 14.06.5 An Acceptable (Owelty Deed Using State Bar Form) Warranty Deed (Long Form)
- 14.06.6 An Acceptable Example Of An Owelty Note Provision
- 14.06.7 Acceptable Designation Language (include in nonhomestead affidavit reciting facts applicable to transactions)
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- 14.12.1 In General
- 14.12.2 Coverage Afforded Through the Insurance Provisions
- 14.12.3 Exclusions from Coverage
- 14.12.4 Conditions
- 14.12.5 Schedule A Analysis
- 14.12.6 Schedule B Analysis
- 14.12.7 Endorsements to the Owner Policy
- 14.12.8 Countersignature
- 14.12.9 Apportionment of Amount of Insurance When Two o
- 14.12.9 Insuring Other than the Record Owner
- 14.12.10 Duplicate of an Original Owner Policy
- 14.12.11 Duplicate of a Lost Owner Policy
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- 15.16.1 Definitions
- 15.16.2 Partnerships Prior To The Uniform Partnership A
- 15.16.3 Applicable Laws
- 15.16.4 Types Of Partnerships
- 15.16.5 Partnership Associations And Limited Partnership
- 15.16.6 Types Of Partners
- 15.16.7 Formation
- 15.16.8 Acquisition Of Real Property
- 15.16.9 Conveyance And Mortgage Of Real Property
- 15.16.10 Mortgage To A Partner
- 15.16.11 Mortgage of Partnerships Interest
- 15.16.12 Changes In Membership
- 15.16.13 Judgment Liens And State Tax Liens
- 15.16.14 Federal Tax Liens
- 15.16.15 Bankruptcy
- 15.16.16 Dissolution And Winding Up
- 15.16.17 Examining Partnership Property
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- 15.40.1 In General
- 15.40.2 Dedicated Areas
- 15.40.3 When Streets as Shown on the Recorded Plat of the Subdivision Are Not Dedicated for Public Use
- 15.40.4 Insuring The Whole Plat Of A Subdivision
- 15.40.5 Title Insurance Guidelines Relative to the Examination of Platted Lands
- 15.40.6 Requirements for Plats
- 15.40.7 Replatting
- 15.40.8 Penalty for Not Platting
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- 15.48.1 General
- 15.48.2 Construction Of Language In A Power Of Attorney
- 15.48.3 Uninsurable Exercise Of A Power Of Attorney
- 15.48.4 Conveyances Executed By Agent
- 15.48.5 Termination And/Or Revocation Of Power Of Attorney
- 15.48.6 Durable Power Of Attorney (Estates Code §751.001 et seq.)
- 15.48.7 Equal Dignities Rule
- 15.48.8 Who Can Act As Agent
- 15.48.9 Underwriting
- 15.48.10 Safeguard
- 15.48.11 Military Powers of Attorney
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- 15.52.1 P-1. Definitions
- 15.52.2 P-2. Amendment of Exception to Area and Boundaries
- 15.52.3 P-3. Exception to "Rights of Parties in Possession"
- 15.52.4 P-4. Restrictive Covenants Exception
- 15.52.5 P-5. Special Exceptions
- 15.52.6 P-6. Co-Insurance
- 15.52.7 P-7. Name of Insured on Loan Policy of Title Insurance or Proposed Insured on Commitment for Loan Policy of Title Insurance
- 15.52.8 P-8. Issuance of Policies Prior to Completion of Improvements
- 15.52.9 P-9. Endorsement of Owner or Loan Policies
- 15.52.10 P-10. Facultative Reinsurance
- 15.52.11 P-11. Insuring Around
- 15.52.12 P-12. Abstract Plants
- 15.52.13 P-13. Truth-In-Lending
- 15.52.14 P-14. Owner Title Policy Commitment to Texas Department of Transportation
- 15.52.15 P-15. Commitment for Title Insurance to or for the Federal Deposite Insurance Corporation Office of Thrift Supervision or Resolution Trust Corporation
- 15.52.16 P-16. Loan Title Policy Binder on Interim Construction Loan (Interim Construction Binder)
- 15.52.17 P-17. Electronically Produced Endorsement Forms
- 15.52.18 P-18. Commitment for Title Insurance
- 15.52.19 P-19. Pending Disbursement
- 15.52.20 P-20. Standard Exception Relating to Taxes
- 15.52.21 P-21. Contents of Schedule D to Commitment for Title Insurance
- 15.52.22 P-22. Payment of a Fee for Examination and/or Closing
- 15.52.23 P-23. Division of Premiums between Title Insurance Agent and Title Insurance Companies
- 15.52.24 P-24. Payment for Services Rendered by a Title Insurance Company, Title Insurance Agent, or Direct Operation to Another Title Insurance Company, Title Insurance Agent or Direct Operation
- 15.52.25 P-25. Reasonable Time for Furnishing Title Evidence
- 15.52.26 P-26. Copies of Policies Provided to Agents
- 15.52.27 P-27. Disbursement From Escrow or Trust Fund Accounts
- 15.52.28 P-28. Requirements for Continuing Education for Title Agents and Escrow Officers
- 15.52.29 P-29. (REPEALED 02/01/2010) Relating to Taxes Not Yet Due and Payable
- 15.52.30 P-30. Guaranty Assessment Recoupment Charge.
- 15.52.31 P-31. Authorized Execution of Directly Issued Policies.
- 15.52.32 P-32. Document Retention.
- 15.52.33 P-33. Repealed
- 15.52.34 P-34. Repealed
- 15.52.35 P-35. Prohibition Against Guaranties, Affirmatiions, Indemnifications, and Certifications.
- 15.52.36 P-36. Arbitration Provisions
- 15.52.37 P-37. Lack of a Right of Access
- 15.52.38 P-38. Residential Owner Policy of Title Insurance-One to-Four Family Residences
- 15.52.39 P-39. Express Insurance
- 15.52.40 P-40. Standards for Reserve Setting and Reviewing
- 15.52.41 P-41. Reserved for Future Use
- 15.52.42 P-42. Reserved for Future Use
- 15.52.43 P-43. Limited Pre-Foreclosure Policy (T-98) and Limited Pre-Foreclosure Policy Downdate Endorsement (T-99)
- 15.52.44 P-44. Equity Loan Mortgage Endorsement (T-42)
- 15.52.45 P-45. Texas Reverse Mortgage Endorsement (T-43)
- 15.52.46 P-46 TEXAS RESIDENTIAL LIMITED COVERAGE JUNIOR MORTGAGEE POLICY (T-44) AND TEXAS RESIDENTIAL LIMITED COVERAGE JUNIOR MORTGAGEE POLICY DOWN DATE ENDORSEMENT (T-45) AND TEXAS RESIDENTIAL LIMITED COVERAGE JUNIOR MORTGAGE POLICY HOME EQUITY LINE OF CREDIT/VARIABLE RATE ENDORSEMENT (T-46) AND TEXAS RESIDENTIAL LIMITED COVERAGE JUNIOR MORTGAGEE POLICY ADDITIONAL COVERAGE ENDORSEMENT
- 15.52.47 P-47 Supplemental Coverage Equity Loan Mortgage Endorsement (T-42.1)
- 15.52.48 P-48 Dates On and After January 1, 2000
- 15.52.49 P-49. Annual Audit
- 15.52.50 P-50. Restrictions, Encroachments, Minerals Endorsement (T-19) and Restrictions, Encroachments, Minerals Endorsement - Owner Policy (T-19.1)
- 15.52.50.1 P-50.1. Minerals and Surface Damage Endorsement (Form T-19.2), and Minerals and Surface Damage Endorsement (Form T-19.3)
- 15.52.50.2 P-50.2. Minerals and Surface Damage Endorsement (Form T-19.4)
- 15.52.51 P-51. Texas Short Form Residential Mortgagee Policy of Title Insurance (T-2R)
- 15.52.52 P-52. Delivery of Pro Forma Policies and Promulgated Forms
- 15.52.53 P-53. Rebates and Discounts Prohibited
- 15.52.54 P-54. Access Endorsement (T-23)
- 15.52.55 P-55. Non Imputation Endorsement (T-24, T-24.1)
- 15.52.56 P-56. Contiguity Endorsement (T-25, T-25.1)
- 15.52.57 P-57. Additional Insured Endorsement (Form T-26)
- 15.52.58 P-58. Report on Directly Issued Policy
- 15.52.59 P-59. Reconciliation of References to Provisions of the Insurance Code of 1951 to Provisions of the Texas Insurance Code as Recodified
- 15.52.60 P-60. Assignment of Rents/Leases Endorsement (T-27)
- 15.52.61 P-61. Timely Provision of Title Policies
- 15.52.62 P-62. Licensing and Location of Title Agents and Direct Operations
- 15.52.63 P-63. Policy Issued to Qualified Intermediary under IRS Code 1031
- 15.52.64 P-64. Subordinate Liens and Leases - Pursuant to Rule P-11.b.(8)
- 15.52.65 P-65. Issuance of Owner Policy Required in Connection with Issuance of Mortgagee Policy.
- 15.52.66 P-66. Determination of Amount of Insurance (Policy Amount)
- 15.52.67 P-67. Insured Closing and Settlement Letters (T-50)
- 15.52.68 P-68. Consumer Notice
- P-69. Issuance of Insured Closing Letters (T-50 or T-51)
- P-70. Cancellation Fees; Fees for Services Rendered
- P-71. Texas Limited Coverage Residential Chain of Title Policy
- P-72. Severable Improvements Endorsement (Form T-54)
- P-73. Closing Disclosure and Texas Disclosure (Form T-64)
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- 17.00.1 In General
- 17.00.2 Fee Simple Or Easement
- 17.00.3 Some Situations Or Elements Which May Confirm T
- 17.00.4 Examining Railroad Grants
- 17.00.5 Fee Possibility
- 17.00.6 Easement Situation
- 17.00.7 Conveyance Of Railroad Property To Another Rail
- 17.00.8 Abandonment Of Easement Rights
- 17.00.9 Insuring Abandoned Railroad Property
- 17.00.10 Ownership Of The Reversion
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- 17.02.1 Texas Title Insurance Premium Rates -Effective 02/01/07
- 17.02.2 Calculation Of Premiums For Policies In Excess of $100,000
- 17.02.3 R-1. Schedule of Basic Premium Rates
- 17.02.4 R-2. Rebates And Discounts
- 17.02.4 R-3. Owner Policy
- 17.02.5 R-4. Mortgagee Policy
- 17.02.6 R-5. Simultaneous Issuance of Owner and Mortgagee Policies
- 17.02.7 R-6. Subsequent Issuance of Mortgagee Policy.
- 17.02.8 R-7. Mortgagee Policies Covering First and Subordinate Liens Issued Simultaneously.
- 17.02.9 R-8. Mortgagee Policy on a Loan to Take Up, Renew, Extend or Satisfy an Existing Lien(s).
- 17.02.10 R-9. Additional Chains of Title
- 17.02.11 R-10. Owner Policies - City Subdivision, Acreage Subdivisions, Industrial Tracts.
- 17.02.12 R-11. Mortgagee Policy Endorsement
- 17.02.13 R-12. Commitment for Title Insurance
- 17.02.14 R-13. Mortgagee Title Policy Binder on Interim Construction Loan
- 17.02.15 R-14. Foreclosed Properties
- 17.02.16 R-15. Owner Policy Endorsement
- 17.02.17 R-16. Amendment of Exception to Area and Boundaries
- 17.02.18 R-17. Policy Forms for use by United States Government
- 17.02.19 R-18. Creation of New Loan Contemplated by Construction Lender
- 17.02.20 R-19. Amendment of or Endorsement Amending Exception in Mortgage Policy or Mortgagee Title Policy Binder on Interim Construction Load (Interim Binder).
- 17.02.21 R-20. Owner Policy after Construction Period
- 17.02.22 R-21. Multiple Owner Policies on Same Land
- 17.02.23 R-22. Owner and Leasehold Policies
- 17.02.24 R-23. Commitment Fee
- 17.02.25 R-24. Applicable Only as Provided in Procedural Rule P-29
- 17.02.26 R-25. Premium for Commitment for Title Insurance to the FDIC, OTS, or RTC.
- 17.02.27 R-26. Premium for Limited Pre-Foreclosure Policy (Form T-98) and Limited Pre-Foreclosure Policy Downdate Endorsement (Form T-99).
- 17.02.28 R-27. Texas Residential Limited Coverage Junior Mortgagee Policy.
- 17.02.29 R-28. PREMIUM FOR EQUITY LOAN MORTGAGE ENDORSEMENT (T-42) AND SUPPLEMENTAL COVERAGE EQUITY LOAN MORTGAGE ENDORSEMENT (T-42.1)
- 17.02.30 R-29. PREMIUM FOR RESTRICTIONS, ENCROACHMENTS, MINERALS ENDORSEMENT (T-19) AND PREMIUM FOR RESTRICTIONS, ENCROACHMENTS, MINERALS ENDORSEMENT - OWNER POLICY (T-19.1).
- 17.02.30 Texas Title Insurance Premium Rates -Effective 02/01/07
- 17.02.31 R-30 PREMIUM FOR ACCESS ENDORSEMENT (T-23).
- 17.02.32 R-31 PREMIUM FOR NON-IMPUTATION ENDORSEMENT (T-24).
- 17.02.33 R-32 PREMIUM FOR CONTIGUITY ENDORSEMENT (T-25).
- 17.02.34 R-33 PREMIUM FOR ADDITIONAL INSURED ENDORSEMENT (T-26).
- 17.02.35 R-34 PREMIUM FOR ASSIGNMENT OF RENTS/LEASES ENDORSEMENT (T-27).
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- 17.38.1 In General
- 17.38.2 Situations Where The Residential Policy Is Not
- 17.38.3 Owner’s Information Sheet
- 17.38.4 Owner’s Coverage Statement
- 17.38.5 Covered Risks
- 17.38.6 Exclusions From Coverage
- 17.38.7 Conditions
- 17.38.8 Commitment Preparation
- 17.38.9 Schedule A Analysis
- 17.38.10 Schedule B Analysis
- 17.38.11 Endorsements to Residential Owner Policy Form
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- 18.40.1 Necessity and Purposes
- 18.40.2 Minimum Requirements
- 18.40.3 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/ACSM (As of 2-23-2016 ALTA/NSPS Standards)
- 18.40.4 The Spot Survey or the Mortgage Inspection Report
- 18.40.5 Who Can Make a Land Title Survey
- 18.40.6 Check-List for the Examination of a Survey (not for Condominium or Air Rights)
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- 19.44.1 In General
- 19.44.2 Parties to a Trust
- 19.44.3 Capacity of the Trustor
- 19.44.4 Intention to Create a Trust
- 19.44.5 Classification of Trusts
- 19.44.6 Express trusts
- 19.44.7 Separation of Legal Title and Equitable Ownersh
- 19.44.8 Testamentary Trusts
- 19.44.9 Statute of Frauds in Relation to Trusts
- 19.44.10 Powers of the Trustee
- 19.44.11 The Trustee Dealing With Itself
- 19.44.12 Termination of a Trust
- 19.44.13 Effect of Termination
- 19.44.14 Effect of Voidance
- 19.44.15 Recommended Forms of Vesting of Title
- 19.44.16 Examination of an Inter vivos or Living Trust
- 19.44.17 Examination of a Testamentary Trust
- 19.44.18 Delaware Statutory Trusts
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- 21.00.1 In General
- 21.00.2 Examination of Titles to Vacated Streets, Alleys and Highways
- 21.00.3 Rights That Might not Have Been Terminated by t
- 21.00.4 Possible Unrecorded Rights or Easements
- 21.00.5 Description of Vacated Property Adjoining Non-Rectangular Shape
- 21.00.6 Vacation of Subdivision Plat
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- 22.00.1 In General
- 22.00.2 Terminology
- 22.00.3 Some Important General Legal Principles Relativ
- 22.00.4 Main Water Problems
- 22.00.5 Title to the Bed of a Body of Water
- 22.00.6 Riparian Rights
- 22.00.7 Water Rights
- 22.00.8 Water Boundary on a Navigable Body of Water
- 22.00.9 Water Boundary on a Non-Navigable and Non-Tidal
- 22.00.10 Changes in Water Boundaries
- 22.00.11 Distinction Between Accretion and Avulsion
- 22.00.12 Accretion and Reliction--Title Consequences
- 22.00.13 Avulsion--Title Consequences
- 22.00.14 Artificial Accretions
- 22.00.15 Lakes
- 22.00.17 Islands in Rivers
- 22.00.18 Beaches
- 22.00.19 Tidelands Under Non-Navigable Waters
- 22.00.20 Submerged Lands Act
- 22.00.21 Policy Exclusions