Ohio Code 5723.15 – Purchasers may have partition
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Any person claiming any land, inlot, outlot, or part of lot, by virtue of a sale made under sections 5723.01 to 5723.19 of the Revised Code, as tenant in common with any other person, may apply for a partition in the manner provided by law for the partition of real estate. On presenting the county auditor’s deed, the court, before which application for such partition is made, shall set off to such person the land claimed in the deed as his share in the manner prescribed by law for the partition of estates in lands, tenements, or hereditaments of joint tenants pursuant to a joint tenancy created prior to the effective date of this amendment, or of tenants with a right of survivorship, tenants in common, and coparceners.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5723.15
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.