Constructive notice

Actual notice

Actual notice is direct, personal knowledge of a fact, claim, right, or condition, whether learned through documents, conversation, observation, or another source.

Recordation

Recordation is filing an eligible real estate instrument in the appropriate public land records so it becomes part of the chain of title and provides the notice and priority effects given by law.

Marketable title

Marketable title is title reasonably free from substantial doubt, material defects, and probable litigation, such that a prudent purchaser would accept it under the contract.

Easement appurtenant

An easement appurtenant is a nonpossessory right that benefits one parcel, the dominant tenement, and burdens another parcel, the servient tenement.