47-19.1-02. Definitions

47-19.1-02. Definitions As used in this chapter: 1. A person is deemed to have the unbroken chain of title to an interest in real estate when the records of the county recorder disclose a conveyance or other title transaction of record twenty years or more which purports to create the interest in that person or that person's immediate or remote grantors, with nothing appearing of record purporting to divest that purported interest. 2. Title transaction means any transaction affecting title to real estate, including by will or descent from any person who held title of record at death, title by a decree or order of any court, title by tax deed or by trustee's, referee's, guardian's, executor's, or sheriff's deed, as well as by direct conveyance or reservation.