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Chapter 3. Instruments in the Record

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Chapter 1. Examination Generally Chapter 2. The Abstract Chapter 3. Instruments in the Record Chapter 4. Capacity to Convey Chapter 5. Name Variances Chapter 6. Execution, Acknowledgment and Recording Chapter 7. Marital Interests Chapter 8. Joint Tenancies and Life Estates Chapter 9. Five Civilized Tribes Land Titles Chapter 10. Osage Land Titles Chapter 11. General Allottment Act Land Titles Chapter 12. Corporations Chapter 13. Partnerships and Joint Ventures Chapter 14. Limited Liability Companies Chapter 15. Trusts and Trustees Chapter 16. Financial Institutions in Receivership or Liquidation Chapter 17. Title Through Decedents' Estates Chapter 18. Conveyance by Miscellaneous Entities Chapter 19. Reserved For Future Use Chapter 20. Reserved For Future Use Chapter 21. Reserved For Future Use Chapter 22. Reserved For Future Use Chapter 23. Judgment Liens, Execution and Attachment Chapter 24. Mortgages and Other Liens Chapter 25. Tax Liens Chapter 26. Reserved Chapter 27. Reserved Chapter 28. Reserved Chapter 29. Simplification of Land Titles Act Chapter 30. Marketable Record Title Act Chapter 31. Federal Nonjudicial Mortgage Foreclosure Chapter 32. Reserved Chapter 33. Reserved Chapter 34. Bankruptcies Chapter 35. Miscellaneous General
sec 3.1 Instruments By Strangers sec 3.2 Affidavits and Recitals sec 3.2.1 Acquiring Severed Mineral Interests From Decedent-Establishing Marketable Title sec 3.3 Oil and Gas Leases and Mineral and Royalty Interests sec 3.4 Corrective Instruments sec 3.5 Instruments Which Are Altered and Re-Recorded sec 3.6 Lis Pendens