Ohio Code § 5301.29
Ohio Code § 5301.29. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 5301.29.
When any release, cancellation, or satisfaction of a mortgage of real estate has been
of record for more than twenty-one years in the office of the county recorder of the
county in which such real estate is situated, and the record thereof shows that there
is a defect in such release, cancellation, or satisfaction, such release, cancellation,
or satisfaction and the record thereof shall be cured of such defect, if such defect
is due to any of the following: (A) It purports to be signed by an agent or attorney of the mortgagee or a trustee, and
no power of attorney or other evidence of authority so to release, cancel, or satisfy
such mortgage is of record. (B) It was signed by less than all of two or more executors, administrators, guardians,
assignees in insolvency, or trustees. (C) The record of such release, cancellation, or satisfaction is not attested by the
recorder. (D) The release, cancellation, or satisfaction by a corporation is executed by officers
thereof without signing the name of the corporation thereto.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 5301.29
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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