1998 Minnesota Statutes

     508.38 Forms of records adopted. 

    Every instrument affecting the title to land, filed with 
 the registrar, shall be numbered by the registrar consecutively, 
 and the registrar shall endorse upon the same over the 
 registrar's official signature, OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR OF 
 TITLES, ... COUNTY, MINNESOTA, CERTIFIED FILED ON, together with 
 the date, hour, and minute when the same is filed, the document 
 number thereof, and a reference to its proper certificate of 
 title.  Every such instrument shall be retained by the registrar 
 and regarded as registered from the time of filing except that 
 such instruments may be copied or reproduced as provided by 
 section 15.17, as amended, and the copies or reproductions 
 thereof substituted for the originals with the equal force and 
 effect of the same, which originals may be then destroyed as 
 provided by said section 15.17.  When the memorial of any 
 instrument is made upon any certificate, the date, number, and 
 time of filing thereof shall likewise be endorsed upon such 
 certificate.  All records and papers relating to registered land 
 in the office of the registrar, shall be open to the inspection 
 of the public at such times and under such conditions as the 
 court may prescribe. Duplicates of all instruments, voluntary or 
 involuntary, filed and registered with the registrar, may be 
 presented with the originals, and shall thereupon be endorsed 
 with the file number, and other memoranda on the originals, and 
 may be attested and sealed by the registrar, and returned to the 
 person presenting the same.  The registrar shall furnish 
 certified copies of the instruments filed and registered in the 
 registrar's office, upon payment of a fee as provided in section 
 357.18.  The court shall adopt general forms of memorials and 
 notations to be used by the registrars in registering the common 
 forms of conveyance and other instruments. 

    HIST: (8284) RL s 3406; 1905 c 305 s 37; 1961 c 12 s 1; 1978 c 
 500 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 388 art 3 s 10; 1998 c 314 s 8