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Chapter 65.12
Complete Chapter
Chapter
65.12
RCW
REGISTRATION OF LAND TITLES
(TORRENS ACT)
Sections
65.12.005
Registration authorized
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Who may apply.
65.12.010
Land subject to a lesser estate.
65.12.015
Tax title land
—
Conditions to registration.
65.12.020
Application.
65.12.025
Various lands in one application.
65.12.030
Amendment of application.
65.12.035
Form of application.
65.12.040
Venue
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Power of the court.
65.12.050
Registrars of titles.
65.12.055
Bond of registrar.
65.12.060
Deputy registrar
—
Duties
—
Vacancy.
65.12.065
Registrar not to practice law
—
Liability for deputy.
65.12.070
Nonresident to appoint agent.
65.12.080
Filing application
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Docket and record entries.
65.12.085
Filing abstract of title.
65.12.090
Examiner of titles
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Appointment
—
Oath
—
Bond.
65.12.100
Copy of application as lis pendens.
65.12.110
Examination of title.
65.12.120
Summons to issue.
65.12.125
Summons
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Form.
65.12.130
Parties to action.
65.12.135
Service of summons.
65.12.140
Copy mailed to nonresidents
—
Proof
—
Expense.
65.12.145
Guardians ad litem.
65.12.150
Who may appear
—
Answer.
65.12.155
Judgment by default
—
Proof.
65.12.160
Cause set for trial
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Default
—
Referral.
65.12.165
Court may require further proof.
65.12.170
Application dismissed or withdrawn.
65.12.175
Decree of registration
—
Effect
—
Appellate review.
65.12.180
Rights of persons not served.
65.12.190
Limitation of actions.
65.12.195
Title free from incumbrances
—
Exceptions.
65.12.200
Decree
—
Contents
—
Filing.
65.12.210
Interest acquired after filing application.
65.12.220
Registration
—
Effect.
65.12.225
Withdrawal authorized
—
Effect.
65.12.230
Application to withdraw.
65.12.235
Certificate of withdrawal.
65.12.240
Effect of recording.
65.12.245
Title prior to withdrawal unaffected.
65.12.250
Entry of registration
—
Records.
65.12.255
Certificate of title.
65.12.260
Owner's certificate
—
Receipt.
65.12.265
Tenants in common.
65.12.270
Subsequent certificates.
65.12.275
Exchange of certificates
—
Platting land.
65.12.280
Effective date of certificate.
65.12.290
Certificate of title as evidence.
65.12.300
Indexes and files
—
Forms.
65.12.310
Tract and alphabetical indexes.
65.12.320
Dealings with registered land.
65.12.330
Registration has effect of recording.
65.12.340
Filing
—
Numbering
—
Indexing
—
Public records.
65.12.350
Duplicate of instruments certified
—
Fees.
65.12.360
New certificate
—
Register of less than fee
—
When form of memorial in doubt.
65.12.370
Owner's certificate to be produced when new certificate issued.
65.12.375
Owner's duplicate certificate.
65.12.380
Conveyance of registered land.
65.12.390
Certificate of tax payment.
65.12.400
Registered land charged as other land.
65.12.410
Conveyances by attorney-in-fact.
65.12.420
Encumbrances by owner.
65.12.430
Registration of mortgages.
65.12.435
Dealings with mortgages.
65.12.440
Foreclosures on registered land.
65.12.445
Registration of final decree
—
New certificate.
65.12.450
Title on foreclosure
—
Registration.
65.12.460
Petition for new certificate.
65.12.470
Registration of leases.
65.12.480
Instruments with conditions.
65.12.490
Transfers between trustees.
65.12.500
Trustee may register land.
65.12.510
Creation of lien on registered land.
65.12.520
Registration of liens.
65.12.530
Entry as to plaintiff's attorney.
65.12.540
Decree.
65.12.550
Title acquired on execution.
65.12.560
Termination of proceedings.
65.12.570
Land registered only after redemption period.
65.12.580
Registration on inheritance.
65.12.590
Probate court may direct sale of registered land.
65.12.600
Trustees and receivers.
65.12.610
Eminent domain
—
Reversion.
65.12.620
Registration when owner's certificate withheld.
65.12.630
Reference to examiner of title.
65.12.635
Examiner of titles.
65.12.640
Registered instruments to contain names and addresses
—
Service of notices.
65.12.650
Adverse claims
—
Procedure.
65.12.660
Assurance fund.
65.12.670
Investment of fund.
65.12.680
Recoveries from fund.
65.12.690
Parties defendant
—
Judgment
—
Payment
—
Duties of county attorney.
65.12.700
When fund not liable
—
Maximum liability.
65.12.710
Limitation of actions.
65.12.720
Proceeding to change records.
65.12.730
Certificate subject of theft
—
Penalty.
65.12.740
Perjury.
65.12.750
Fraud
—
False entries
—
Penalty.
65.12.760
Forgery
—
Penalty.
65.12.770
Civil actions unaffected.
65.12.780
Fees of clerk.
65.12.790
Fees of registrar.
65.12.800
Disposition of fees.
65.12.900
Construction
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Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships
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2009 c 521.
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