Ohio Code § 5301.51
Ohio Code § 5301.51. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 5301.51.
(A) Any person claiming an interest in land may preserve and keep effective the interest
by filing for record during the forty-year period immediately following the effective
date of the root of title of the person whose record title would otherwise be marketable,
a notice in compliance with section 5301.52 of the Revised Code . No disability or lack of knowledge of any kind on the part of anyone suspends the
running of the forty-year period. The notice may be filed for record by the claimant or by any other person acting
on behalf of any claimant who is: (1) Under a disability; (2) Unable to assert a claim on his own behalf; or (3) One of a class, but whose identity cannot be established or is uncertain at the time
of filing the notice of claim for record. (B) If the same record owner of any possessory interest in land has been in possession
of the land continuously for a period of forty years or more, during which period
no title transaction with respect to such interest appears of record in his chain
of title, and no notice has been filed by him on his behalf as provided in division
(A) of this section, and such possession continues to the time when marketability
is being determined, the period of possession is equivalent to the filing of the notice
immediately preceding the termination of the forty-year period described in division
(A) of this section.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 5301.51
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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