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Title

1. The right of ownership over a piece of tangible or intangible property. In countries and economic systems recognizing private ownership, title represents a recognition by government and society that a person or organization owns something.

2. A certificate acknowledging title. See also: Stockholder of record.

Title.

A title is a legal document proving ownership of a piece of property.

If you are buying real estate you authorize a title search, or examination of property records, to insure that the seller holds the title and has the right to transfer it.

In most cases, if you're taking a mortgage to buy the property, the lender will require you to arrange title insurance to protect its interest until the full amount of the loan has been repaid. You may also arrange for your own title insurance to protect you from losing your property if your ownership is successfully contested.

title

(1) All the elements that create the highest legal right to own,possess,use,control,enjoy,and dispose of real property or an inheritable right or interest in it.(2) The rights of ownership recognized and protected by the law.

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This, again, as we know from fragments, was a list of heroines who bare children to the gods: from the title we must suppose it to have been much longer that the simple "Eoiae", but its extent is unknown.

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Duterte promised to provide fertilizers and mobile phones to each of the 2,495 agrarian reform beneficiaries, who received land titles during his visit to this northern Negros city Friday night.

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The President said this was just the beginning of the important exercise and will soon issue more titles for landowners in Nairobi County.

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The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act further supported 504, and is divided into sections ("Titles"), three of which are developed in this book.

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THE LEAGUE of Ireland history of Cork's re-incarnations FORDSONS 1924-30 League titles: 0 Runners Up: 0 FAI Cup 1 (1926) CORK BOHS 1932-34 Titles: 0 RU: 0 FAI Cup: 0 CORK/CORK CITY 1930-40 Titles: 0 RU: 2 (1932,34) FAI Cup: 1 (1934)

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The heart of his business is common to all title insurance agencies: the review of titles for real property about to be sold and insuring that those titles are free and clear from any liens or other encumbrances that could prevent the purchaser from securing ownership or using the property in accordance with its intended function.