• § 44-2-60 - Jurisdiction of Superior Court Over Matters in This Article
  For the purpose of enabling all persons owning real estate within this state to have the title thereto settled and registered as prescribed by...
• § 44-2-61 - Proceedings to Be in Rem; Operation of Decree
  The proceedings under any petition for the registration of land and all proceedings in the court in relation to registered land shall be proceedings...
• § 44-2-62 - Procedure As to Actions for Registration; Persons Under Disability
  Action for registration of title shall be begun by a petition to the court by the person, persons, or corporation claiming, singly or collectively,...
• § 44-2-63 - Persons Claiming Less Than Fee; Establishing Title Without Registration
  Any person possessing lands and claiming an interest or estate less than the fee therein may have his title to such lands established under...
• § 44-2-64 - Petition -- Verification; Contents; Description of Land; Surveys; Amendments
  The petition and amendments thereto shall be signed and sworn to by each petitioner, or, in the case of a corporation, by some officer...
• § 44-2-65 - Petition -- Inclusion of Separate Parcels in One Proceeding; Individual Registration of Separate Parts of One Tract
  Any number of separate parcels of land which are claimed by the petitioner under the same general claim of title and are located in...
• § 44-2-66 - Petition -- Persons Included As Defendants
  The petition shall include as defendants all persons whom it shows to have any interest, equity, or claim upon said land or upon any...
• § 44-2-67 - Issuance and Service of Process or Summons; Service by Publication; Notice to Nonresidents; Request for Petition; Guardians Ad Litem
  (a)(1) Upon the petition being filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court in the county where the land is located,...
• § 44-2-68 - Appointment of Resident Agent for Service on Nonresident Petitioner
  A nonresident petitioner shall appoint a resident agent or attorney upon whom process and notice may be served.
• § 44-2-69 - Service Upon State, County, or Municipality
  If the petition discloses that it involves the determination of any public right or interest of this state or of any county or municipality...
• § 44-2-70 - Waiver or Acknowledgment of Service
  Any person entitled to notice or service of process under this article may waive such notice or service by a written acknowledgment of service...
• § 44-2-71 - Conclusive Effect of Evidence of Service of Process and Notice; Liability of Officers for False Returns or Failure to Publish or Mail Notice
  Before passing the decree authorizing the registration of land, the court shall be satisfied that the publication of notice and service of process required...
• § 44-2-72 - Posting Notice on Land and Buildings; Ascertainment of and Notice to Occupants; Return to Court; Seizure and Custody of the Land and Attachment of Jurisdiction
  (a) A notice similar to the notice published as provided in Code Section 44-2-67 shall be delivered by the clerk to the sheriff of...
• § 44-2-73 - Effect of Notice; Appearances or Pleadings As Waiver of Service, Notice, and Defects
  The notices provided for and to be given under this article shall stand as personal service of process and shall be conclusive and binding...
• § 44-2-74 - Service on Other Persons Found by Examiner to Be Entitled to Notice
  If the report of the examiner discloses that persons other than those who have been notified are entitled to notice, a copy of the...
• § 44-2-75 - Additional Notice; Judge's Discretion
  Wherever notice is required by this article and no provision is made as to how notice shall be given or wherever, in the discretion...
• § 44-2-76 - Who May File Objections or Cross-Action to Petition
  Any person, whether notified or not, may become a party to the proceeding for the purpose of filing objections to the granting of the...
• § 44-2-77 - Survey of Land Upon Order of Judge or Examiner; Notice to Adjoining Landowners; Protest; Procedure for Trying Issue
  While the cause is pending before the examiner of titles or at any time before final decree, the judge, or the examiner with the...
• § 44-2-78 - Dismissal Without Prejudice
  If the petitioner's title is not and cannot be made proper for registration, the petition may, at the discretion of the court or the...
• § 44-2-79 - Amendment or Severance of Petitions or Other Pleadings; Power of Court or Examiner to Require Additional Facts
  Amendments to petitions or other pleadings, including joinder, substitution, or discontinuance of parties, the severance of pleadings, and the omission or severance of any...
• § 44-2-80 - Treatment of Land Pending Registration; Appearance of Person Acquiring Interest in Land Pending Registration
  Pending registration, the land described in any petition may be dealt with as if no petition had been filed; but any person who shall...
• § 44-2-81 - No Default Judgment or Decree
  No decree shall be rendered by default and without the necessary facts being shown.
• § 44-2-82 - Entry of Judgment and Decree; Inclusion of Limitations and Encumbrances; Decree in Favor of Cross-Action; Separate Decree for Each Parcel
  After the record has been perfected and settled, the judge of the superior court shall proceed to decide the case; and if, upon consideration...
• § 44-2-83 - Conclusiveness of Decree; Effect of Disability on Conclusiveness; Recourse of Persons Under a Disability Against Assurance Fund
  Every decree rendered as provided in this article shall bind the land and bar all persons claiming title thereto or interest therein, shall quiet...
• § 44-2-84 - Review by Supreme Court
  All judgments and decrees of the superior court or the judge thereof which are rendered under this article shall be subject to review by...

Last modified: October 14, 2016