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Semachko V. Hopko: Ohio's Marketable Title Act Comes To The Fore, James F. Szaller
Semachko V. Hopko: Ohio's Marketable Title Act Comes To The Fore, James F. Szaller
Cleveland State Law Review
The Ohio Marketable Title Act became effective on September 29, 1961. The purpose of the Act is to simplify and facilitate land title transactions. This is accomplished by allowing the title examiner to search the record for title defects for only a specified period of years back in time; all claims prior to that period are extinguished. The period of time in Ohio is forty years. Therefore, if a person has a record chain of title for forty years, then any conflicting claims based upon any title transactions prior to that forty year period are extinguished. The basic concept is …
Covenant Of Habitability And The Ohio Landlord-Tenant Legislation, Barbara Hall Nahra
Covenant Of Habitability And The Ohio Landlord-Tenant Legislation, Barbara Hall Nahra
Cleveland State Law Review
With one exception noted later, Ohio courts have been loathe to accept the fact that enforcement of housing codes has been singularly ineffective on a large scale. Without an implied covenant of habit- ability in rental agreements, the indigent tenant today, living in squalid conditions and often lacking a viable alternative, has no effective means of bettering his condition. To remedy this problem, the Ohio legislature, on July 23, 1974, passed Amended Substitute Senate Bill Number 1032 defining the respective rights and obligations of landlords and tenants by holding the lessor of residential property to an implied covenant of habitability …