Dave M., As a former employee of a title company in LC, could you please give the subscribers on this list a very simple and short explanation of "Torrenized" land that once existed here in LC. The subject came up the other night at the Black River Genealogists meeting, & I had not realized that so few understood the Torrens system of registering land. Thank you. -- Nancy

Hi Nancy; You are tapping my memory from 25 years ago, but here is what I recall the Torrenised land system to be. In Ohio it is called the Registered Land system. In Lorain County there were only 4 areas where this system of recording of records apply. Unless something has happened to take them out of the system the system still applies. There is one small parcel of acreage, about 2 acres, in the northern part of Brownhelm Twp I believe it is now in the City of Vermilion. The other 3 areas are recorded subdivisions. One in east Lorain, one in Avon Lake and I believe the other to be in North Ridgeville, but it could be Avon or Avon Lake. I believe the subdivision in Lorain is called Colorado Park and lays between Colorado Ave and East Erie Ave. Idaho Avenue? This subdivision has normal size building lots and is developed with many homes. The 2 subdivisions in the eastern part of the county consist of 20-25 foot lots. I heard from some old timers that they were given away at movie houses in the 20's in Cleveland as a come on to buy additional lots. These subdivisions were just beginning to be developed in the late 70's by combining several lots. The land must be registered by court order at the request of the owner. After being registered the title is handled similar to the auto title system. The new owner is given a Certificate of Registration that shows the legal description and a map of the property by the county recorder. The certificate unfolds to about the size of a card table. Any liens, easements, mortgages or releases are shown on it. A duplicate is kept in the County Recorders office in a separate set of books. Most things concerning the title of the land must be put onto both the original and the one in the recorders office by the recorder. Some tax liens are excepted. The owner must surrender the certificate at the time of sale. It is quite easy to search the title of registered land as most of the work can be done in one place and the State basically insures the title. The problem is knowing the land is registered. There is nothing to alert you to that fact, you just must know. Many hours can be wasted looking for deeds and mortgages in the normal indexes. There is so little of it that most of the recorders employees know nothing about it and there was no special notations on the tax maps. All additions or corrections gladly welcomed. David Maynard Franklin NC dmaynard35@home.com At 01:39 PM 1/10/02, you wrote: >Dave M., >As a former employee of a title company in LC, could you please give the >subscribers on this list a very simple and short explanation of >"Torrenized" land that once existed here in LC. >The subject came up the other night at the Black River Genealogists >meeting, & I had not realized that so few understood the Torrens system >of registering land. Thank you. >-- >Nancy > > >==== OHLORAIN Mailing List ==== >Visit the Lorain County Genealogy page >http://www.centurytel.net/lorgen