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Home » US Law » 2022 Ohio Revised Code » Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies » Chapter 2729 | Lost and Destroyed Records

Section 2729.01 | Restoration of Probate Court Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the records, dockets, journals, and files, or any part thereof, of any probate court have been lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion, the probate court of its own motion, or upon the application of any party interested therein, […]

Section 2729.02 | Commissioner to Take Testimony – Rules.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly To enable the probate court to make restoration of lost or destroyed records as provided in section 2729.01 of the Revised Code, the probate judge may make such rules and regulations governing the proceedings for taking testimony and ascertaining the facts with […]

Section 2729.03 | Salary and Term of Commissioner.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly A commissioner appointed as provided in section 2729.02 of the Revised Code shall be paid a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum and hold office for one year from the day of appointment.

Section 2729.04 | Restoration Costs.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The costs of restoring the records of the probate court shall be paid out of the county treasury upon the order of the probate judge.

Section 2729.05 | Deed Is Prima-Facie Evidence of Record of Sale by Order of Court.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When real estate has been sold by a sheriff, executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, receiver, trustee, master commissioner, special master, or other person appointed or authorized by the court, and the record of the action in which such sale was made, or the […]

Section 2729.06 | County Auditor’s Deed.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The deeds made by the county auditor of lands sold at delinquent or forfeited tax sales are not prima-facie evidence of title in the purchaser of such lands, nor is there any presumption in favor of such tax deeds or sales when […]

Section 2729.07 | Restoration of Will or Title to Real Estate.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the record of a deed or other instrument conveying title to real estate, authorized or required to be recorded, or a will and the probate thereof, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion, and the original of such […]

Section 2729.08 | Costs of Proceedings.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The costs of the proceedings mentioned in section 2729.07 of the Revised Code shall be the same as are provided by law for like services in civil cases, and shall be paid out of the county treasury on the order of the […]

Section 2729.09 | Restoration of Road Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When an application is filed in the court of common pleas by the board of county commissioners, showing that the records of specified roads of the county were lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil commotion and that copies thereof or […]

Section 2729.10 | Proceedings for Restoration of Road Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Upon the day fixed therefor, and upon such days thereafter as the court of common pleas directs by entry on its journal, the court shall proceed to hear and determine whether the papers produced before it pursuant to an application by a […]

Section 2729.11 | Costs of Transcripts.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The costs of making the transcripts mentioned in section 2729.10 of the Revised Code shall be fixed and allowed by the court of common pleas. Other costs under sections 2729.11 to 2729.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be the same as […]

Section 2729.12 | Proceedings When Copies in Existence.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly If at any time after the filing of an application as provided in section 2729.09 of the Revised Code, and before the final determination thereof, it appears to the court of common pleas that any person has in his possession or under […]

Section 2729.13 | County Roads.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly As to every county road the records of which have been lost or destroyed, and which records are not reproduced under sections 2729.09 to 2729.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the center of the road as fenced on April 12, 1884, is […]

Section 2729.14 | Replacement of Lost Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the record, or any part thereof, of the proceedings, judgment, or decree in an action or other proceeding of a court in this state, in which a final judgment has been rendered, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil […]

Section 2729.15 | Restoring Lost or Destroyed Records of Judgments.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the record or any part thereof of the proceedings, judgment, or decree in an action or other proceeding of a court in this state in which the final judgment has been rendered, is lost or destroyed by fire, riot, or civil […]

Section 2729.16 | Hearing of Application.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly On the hearing of a written application mentioned in section 2729.15 of the Revised Code, without further pleadings, if the court finds that the record of the proceedings, judgment, or decree was lost or destroyed and that it can by the evidence […]

Section 2729.17 | Evidence on Hearing.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Upon the hearing of a written application as provided in section 2729.16 of the Revised Code, the court may admit in evidence any complete or partial abstract of the record mentioned in section 2729.15 of the Revised Code, docket entries, or indexes, […]

Section 2729.18 | Limitation of Time.

Effective: March 17, 1987 Latest Legislation: House Bill 412 – 116th General Assembly When a lost or destroyed judgment or order is one to which either party has a right to appeal on questions of law, the time intervening between the filing of the application mentioned in section 2729.15 of the Revised Code and the […]

Section 2729.19 | Costs of Restoring Lost Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The costs to be taxed upon an application to restore lost or destroyed records mentioned in section 2729.14 of the Revised Code shall be the same as provided for like services in civil actions. Where the record is lost or destroyed by […]

Section 2729.20 | Order for Restoration.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the original papers and records mentioned in section 2729.14 of the Revised Code have been saved from destruction, riot, civil commotion, or other cause and the appearance dockets have been destroyed, and when such saved records should be recopied, the court […]