See also CONTRACTS FOR DEED; DEEDS; MORTGAGES; PERPETUITIES; REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND AGENTS; TITLE; TITLE INSURANCE
Acknowledgments, defects in, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.251
Adverse claims to real property, Minn. Statutes 2023 559.04, 559.17 to 559.20
Agricultural chemicals, avoidance of liability, Minn. Statutes 2023 18D.111
Air space, rights, separate interest, property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.04
Alterations
When valid, Minn. Statutes 2023 513.10
When void, Minn. Statutes 2023 513.09
Attestation, defects in, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.251
Business corporations
Corporate powers, Minn. Statutes 2023 302A.161
Ultra vires acts, Minn. Statutes 2023 302A.165
Capitol area, Minn. Statutes 2023 15B.24
Cemetery lots, see Lots under CEMETERIES
Certified copies, judgments affecting title to real property, recording, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.26
Certified copies of recorded instruments, recording, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.25
Church pews, deeds, recording, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.28
Church slips (seating), deeds, recording, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.28
Cities, see Conveyances under CITIES
Common interest communities, Minn. Statutes 2023 515B.3-112, 515B.4-110
Condominiums, see Conveyances under CONDOMINIUMS
Conservation easements
County zoning ordinances, transfer of development rights, Minn. Statutes 2023 394.25
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2023 84C.02, 103F.515
Reinvest in Minnesota clean energy program, Minn. Statutes 2023 103F.518
State lands, Minn. Statutes 2023 84.625
Conservation restrictions, Minn. Statutes 2023 84.65
Contracts for deed, transfer statements, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.236
Conveyance of real estate by reference to plat, validation, Minn. Statutes 2023 505.15, 505.16
Cooperative associations, corporate powers, Minn. Statutes 2023 308A.201
Corporations, appointment of attorney to convey real estate, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.05
Counties, see Conveyances under COUNTIES
County recorders, see Electronic recording under this topic
Covenants, see Conveyances under COVENANTS
Dakota County, Minn. Statutes 2023 383D.71
Dams, state, Minn. Statutes 2023 103G.521
Deeds, see Conveyances under DEEDS
Defeasance, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.38
Defeasible estates, when conveyance not defeated, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.38
Definitions
Deed taxes, Minn. Statutes 2023 287.20
Partnerships, Minn. Statutes 2023 323A.0101
Recording conveyances, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.01
Descriptions of property
Codes and numbering, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.194
Conflicting descriptions, validation, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.42
Direct conveyances, Minn. Statutes 2023 500.19
Disseisees, conveyance by, validity, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.161
Dissolution of marriage, summary real estate disposition judgment, Minn. Statutes 2023 518.191
Divided parcels, current property taxes, payment, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.121
Donation of land, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 505.01
Easements, state lands
Constitution, Minn. Statutes 2023 84.63
Land management account, Minn. Statutes 2023 92.685
Road easements, Minn. Statutes 2023 84.631, 84.633
Utilities, Minn. Statutes 2023 161.45
Electronic recording
Application of law, uniformity, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.0942
County recorders, procedures, Minn. Statutes 2023 287.241, 287.25, 507.0944, 507.24
Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.0941
Electronic Real Estate Recording Commission, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.0945, 507.0946, 507.0948
Federal law, relationship to, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.0947
Real Property Electronic Recording Act, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.0941 to 507.0949
Registrars of titles, procedures, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.0944
Standards, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.0946
Statutory construction, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.0942, 507.0947
Time of recording, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.0943
Validity of recording, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.0943
Encumbrances
Covenants against, liability of grantor, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.21
Creation by common owner, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.47
Discharge, tax judgment sale certificate, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 270C.7105
Disclosure by grantor, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.20
Estate property interests disclaimers, Minn. Statutes 2023 524.2-1106
Estates, conveyances to or by, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.421
Exceptions, subdivision regulations, Minn. Statutes 2023 462.358
Fee simple estates
Warranty deeds, form, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.07
Words of inheritance, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.061
Fee tail conveyances, Minn. Statutes 2023 500.03, 500.04
Flood control, Minn. Statutes 2023 84.63
Forms
Approved forms, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.09
Certification by Commerce Department, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.10
Certified copies, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.10
Drafters, names and addresses, inclusion, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.091
Grantees, names and addresses, inclusion, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.092
Minnesota uniform conveyancing blanks, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.14
Preservation by Commerce Department, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.09
Quitclaim deeds, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.07
Rulemaking, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2023 14.03
Short form mortgages, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.15
Specifications, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.093
Standard forms, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.13
Uniform conveyancing blanks, Minn. Statutes 2023 14.03, 507.09 to 507.14
Uniform Conveyancing Forms Advisory Task Force, duties, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.09
Warranty deeds, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.07
Fraudulent conveyances, see FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES
Grantors
Disclosure, encumbrances, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.20
Incomplete conveyances, proving, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.23
Liability, covenants against encumbrances, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.21
Guardians and conservators, deeds to or from, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.421
Highways, acquisition of land for, Minn. Statutes 2023 160.085
Homesteads, see Conveyances under HOMESTEADS
Human Services Department, compromise of claims, settlement, Minn. Statutes 2023 246.24
Implied covenants of title, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.16
Incomplete conveyances, proving, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.23
Instruments of conveyance
Descriptions of property, county code system, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.194, 272.196
Municipal subdivisions, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.162
Property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.12
Recording, without tax payment certificate, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.12
Specific parts of land, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.16, 272.161
Irregular tracts, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.19, 272.193
Judgments affecting title to real property, recording, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.26
Lac qui Parle water project, Minn. Statutes 2023 84.154
Land
Descriptions of property, codes and numbering, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.194
Donation, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 505.01
Generally, see Real property under this topic
Highways, acquisition for, Minn. Statutes 2023 160.085
Land exchanges, Minn. Statutes 2023 94.3495
Specific parts, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.16 to 272.162
Timber interests separate from, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.05, 507.35
Lawsuits, covenants against encumbrances, liability, grantors, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.21
Legal separation, property acquired by wife during separation, Minn. Statutes 2023 519.04
Local governments
Conveyances to other governments, Minn. Statutes 2023 465.035
Industry and employment promotion, Minn. Statutes 2023 469.185
Management and Budget Department
Mineral rights, Minn. Statutes 2023 93.03
Old riverbeds, Minn. Statutes 2023 465.19, 465.20
Married persons, rights and privileges, Minn. Statutes 2023 519.03, 519.04, 519.07
Merger, common law doctrine, creation of servitude by common owner, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.47
Minerals, recording instruments, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.36
Mortgages
Recitals, disregarding, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.33, 507.331
Unrecorded mortgages, recitals, recording, when deemed notice, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.332
National forests, Minn. Statutes 2023 92.32
Nonjoinder of spouse
Effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.03
Protected persons, conveyance by spouses, effect on rights of protected person, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.04
Nonprofit corporations, Minn. Statutes 2023 317A.161, 317A.165, 317A.751
Notice
Contracts for deed, obligations, Minn. Statutes 2023 559.202
Requirements, recording deemed notice, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.32
Unrecorded mortgages, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.332
Ores, recording of instruments, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.36
Partition of real estate, sale of property, Minn. Statutes 2023 558.21, 558.23
Personal representatives
Conveyance of real property of decedents, deeds validated, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.42
Valid conveyances, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.421
Powers of appointment
Deeds creating, Minn. Statutes 2023 502.85
Reservation, Minn. Statutes 2023 502.87
Premature conveyances, validity, Minn. Statutes 2023 513.11
Prima facie evidence, recorded conveyances, grantors presumed unmarried, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.021
Private transfer fees, see Private transfer fee obligations under REAL PROPERTY
Protected persons, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.04
Quitclaim deeds, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.06, 507.07
Railroads, rights-of-way, state-owned land, governor, duties, Minn. Statutes 2023 222.025
Real property
Common law doctrine of merger, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.47
Consideration, defined, Minn. Statutes 2023 287.20
Discriminatory provisions restricting conveyance of real property, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.18
Land held by adverse possessor, validity of conveyance, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.161
Property conveyed to state or local governments for highway right-of-ways, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.115
Registered land, see Conveyances under LAND REGISTRATION
Statute of frauds, Minn. Statutes 2023 513.04
Statutes of limitations, see Real property under STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS
Tax judgment sale certificates, Minn. Statutes 2023 270C.7105
Reconveyance fees, see Private transfer fee obligations under REAL PROPERTY
Recording
Acknowledgments, prerequisite, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.24
Certified copies, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.25
Contents, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.091, 507.092
Conveyances recorded fifteen years, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.021
Counties, conveyances of record more than five years, validity, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.422
County recorders, duties, Minn. Statutes 2023 386.39
Deed tax statements, Minn. Statutes 2023 287.241
Delinquent property taxes, payment, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.12, 272.121
Electronic recording, see same under this topic
Fees, Minn. Statutes 2023 357.18, 507.13
Judgments affecting title to real property, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.26
Notice to parties, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.32
Prerequisites, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.24
Requirements, generally, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.01 to 507.47
Transfer statements, contracts for deed, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.236
Religious corporations
Conveyances by, see Real property under RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS
Conveyances to, Minn. Statutes 2023 315.02, 315.121, 315.39
Restrictions
Discriminatory restrictions, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.18
Subdivision regulations, Minn. Statutes 2023 462.358
Revocation
When valid, Minn. Statutes 2023 513.10
When void, Minn. Statutes 2023 513.09
Rock, recording instruments, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.36
Saint Louis County, Minn. Statutes 2023 383C.72
School districts, see Conveyances under SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Service marks, Minn. Statutes 2023 333.23
Severed mineral interests, property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.05
Short form mortgages, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.15
Signatures, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.24, 507.251
Specific parts of land
Cancellation, tax evasion or fraud, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.16
County auditors, duties, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.16 to 272.162
Municipal subdivisions, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.162
Net tax capacity, determination, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.16, 272.161
Spouses
Conveyances between spouses, Minn. Statutes 2023 500.19
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.02, 507.04
State, see Conveyances under MINNESOTA
State lands, establishment of boundaries, Minn. Statutes 2023 84.0273
State rail bank, Minn. Statutes 2023 222.63
State surplus land, Minn. Statutes 2023 84.027
Statute of frauds, Minn. Statutes 2023 513.04
Statutory cities, Minn. Statutes 2023 412.201
Subsurface area, rights, separate interest, property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.04
Tax-forfeited land, see Conveyances under TAX-FORFEITED LAND
Tenants for life, estate passed to grantee, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.19
Tenants for years, estate passed to grantee, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.19
Timber interests separate from land
Property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.05
Recording of instruments, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.36
Town cemeteries, lots, Minn. Statutes 2023 365.26 to 365.29
Towns, see Conveyances under TOWNS
Trademarks, Minn. Statutes 2023 333.23
Transfer statements, see under SECURED TRANSACTIONS
Transfers, conveyances defined as, Minn. Statutes 2023 323A.0101
Trustees, deeds, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.35, 507.421
Trusts
Conveyances to or by, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.421
Custodial property, certification to convey, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.49
Undivided interests, delinquent property taxes, payment, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.14
Uniform conveyancing blanks, see Forms under this topic
Uniform Conveyancing Forms Advisory Task Force, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.09
United States, see FEDERAL LANDS
Unorganized counties, recording of conveyances of real property, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.36
Unrecorded conveyances, when void, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.34
Vacated rights of way, conveyance of land abutting, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.17
Validity
Conveyances recorded fifteen years, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.021
Medical assistance, asset transfers, effect, Minn. Statutes 2023 256B.0595
Vehicles, damaged, title branding, Minn. Statutes 2023 325F.6641, 325F.6642
Vendees, notice received, property taxes, payment, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.435
Vendors, notice given, property taxes, payment, Minn. Statutes 2023 272.435
Voyageurs National Park, Minn. Statutes 2023 84B.03
Warranty deeds, form, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.07
Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, powers, generally, Minn. Statutes 2023 458D.06, 458D.18
Wills, Minn. Statutes 2023 507.251