§ 508.37 — Tract Indexes, Reception Indexes
Plain-Language Summary
The registrar must maintain tract indexes (organized by property) and reception indexes (organized by filing date) to help people search the records.
508.37 TRACT INDEXES, RECEPTION INDEXES.
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Subdivision 1.
MS 1980 [Repealed, 1Sp1981 c 4 art 2 s 41] §
Subd. 1a.Indexes.
The registrar shall likewise keep tract indexes, in which the registrar shall enter an accurate description of all registered land, together with the names of the respective owners thereof, and a reference to the number of the certificate of title. The registrar shall keep two indexes, to be known as the grantors’ and grantees’ reception indexes respectively.
The reception indexes shall include the surname and given name of the grantor and grantee; the date of registration, specifying the month, day, year, and hour and whether a.m. or p.m.; the number of the instrument; the number of the certificate or, where applicable, the book and page where the land is registered. §
Subd. 2.Entries.
The registrar shall enter in each of these indexes in the order and manner aforesaid, and as soon as the same are recorded, all instruments affecting the title to land which are recorded with the registrar and, as far as may be the particulars of the instruments in the appropriate places in the indexes. Retrieval of information from these indexes must be by as convenient an alphabetical search as possible.
History:
(8283) RL s 3405; 1905 c 305 s 36; 1953 c 520 s 1; 1Sp1981 c 4 art 2 s 40; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 388 art 3 s 9; 2005 c 4 s 122
History: History: (8283) RL s 3405; 1905 c 305 s 36; 1953 c 520 s 1; 1Sp1981 c 4 art 2 s 40; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 388 art 3 s 9; 2005 c 4 s 122