What is a Color of Title?
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What is a Color of Title?
And how can one obtain one? What office should I go to?
Asked on May 11, 2012 under Real Estate Law, Ohio
Answers:
S.L,. Member, California Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Color of title means there is a defect in the title. There isn't anything to obtain or any office to obtain it from. Color of title is any fact which appears to support a claim of present title to land, but due to some defect does not establish present title to land. Color of title is a writing which professes to pass title but does not due to lack of title in the grantor (the person claiming to hold title) or a defect in the conveyance of title.
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