chain of title

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In the law of real property, a series of documents recorded in the appropriate government repository which establish the passage of a parcel of property from owner to owner, ideally back to the first owner to reduce the property to private ownership.

Word forms

chain of title chains of title
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