Before title transfer, people check official land records {title search} to find previous title owners, transactions involving the land, and unpaid taxes, to establish marketable title and to obtain needed releases. Independent abstract companies make title searches and write abstracts or digests of property histories. Title searches state opinion on title marketability, with releases and other legal proceedings.
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