Kentucky Revised Statutes

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KRS Chapter 381.00

.010   Commonwealth vested with ultimate property to lands.

.020   Titles allodial and subject to escheat -- Right of eminent domain.

.030   Death of disseizor -- Effect.

.040   Estates may commence in future.

.050   Estate created by conveyance to husband and wife -- Will not to defeat right to the entirety by survivorship.

.060   Fee simple created, when -- Possession vests in grantee.

.070   Estates tail converted into estates in fee -- Limitation on.

.080   Construction of "without heirs," "without children" or "issue" in deed or will.

.090   Construction of "estate for life, remainder to heirs."

.100   Contingent remainder.

.110   Alienation or union of estate does not affect remainder.

.120   Joint tenants -- Partition -- Death of one.

.130   Exceptions to KRS 381.120.

.135   Court-appointed commissioners to determine division of land jointly held and allotment of dower or curtesy -- Survey requirement.

.136   Life tenants and their descendants -- Partition.

.140   Posthumous child may take estate in remainder.

.150   Conveyance of greater estate than grantor owns -- Effect.

.160   Purchaser evicted by heir of grantor may recover to extent of estate inherited.

.170   Consideration paid by other than grantee -- Effect.

.180   Estates in trust subject to debts of beneficiary -- Spendthrift trusts excepted -- Other exceptions.

.190   Sale of realty by trustee by virtue of pledge or deed of trust.

.200   Deeds construed to include buildings and appurtenances -- Solar easements.

.210   Reversion may be sold -- Rights and duties of purchaser.

.215   Adoption of common law rule against perpetuities.

.216   Wait-and-see doctrine -- Reformation.

.217   Exception in the case of pension trusts.

.218   Abolition of fee simple determinable and possibility of reverter.

.219   Termination after thirty years of rights of entry created after July 1, 1960.

.220   Repealed, 1960.

.221   Termination and preservation of forfeiture restrictions created before July 1, 1960.

.222   Exceptions to KRS 381.219 and 381.221.

.223   Application of KRS 381.215 to 381.223.

.230   Possession unnecessary in action for trespass.

.231   Definitions.

.232   Liability for certain injuries.

.240   Title to land in adverse possession not to be certified.

.250   Certification prohibited when more than one patent.

.260   Grants-in-aid of charity valid.

.270   Gift to charity not defeated for want of trustee.

.280   Forfeiture of right to property for killing decedent.

.290   Rights of alien intending to be naturalized.

.300   Realty of nonresident alien liable to escheat after eight years unless he becomes citizen.

.310   Spouses and children of citizens -- Property rights.

.320   Alien's right as to personalty -- As to realty if resident.

.330   Nonresident alien -- Rights as to real property inherited.

.340   Nonresident alien -- Distribution of property on death of.

.350   Waste by tenant for life or years -- Forfeiture -- Damages.

.360   Remainderman or reversioner may bring action for waste.

.370   Action by heir for waste done in ancestor's lifetime.

.380   Waste by seller before delivery of possession.

.390   Waste by joint tenant.

.400   Damages when waste wantonly committed.

.410   Action against representative of tenant -- Revivor.

.420   Waste committed while action pending -- Receiver -- Injunction.

.430   Possession of minerals and other interests in land -- Effect on possession of surface.

.440   Excavations in a city of the first class and consolidated local government -- Protection of adjacent property.

.445   Repealed, 1966.

.450   Tenants may remove improvements from city lots, when.

.460   Occupant in good faith to be paid for improvements.

.470   Proceedings to ascertain value of improvements.

.480   Oath of jurors.

.490   Inquest -- Proceedings -- Duty of court.

.500   Assessment of damages.

.510   Inquest may be quashed and new writ awarded.

.520   Witnesses -- How summoned.

.530   Copies of inquest -- Fees of sheriff.

.540   Trial on return of inquest -- Rents.

.550   Lien of occupant.

.560   Judgment for lien satisfied if all land taken.

.570   Growing crop.

.580   Repealed, 1976.

.590   Repealed, 1976.

.600   Repealed, 1976.

.610   Repealed, 1976.

.620   Repealed, 1976.

.630   Repealed, 1976.

.635   Right of condemnation of underground passageway to mine.

.636   Findings required by commissioners in condemnation of underground passageway -- Basis of compensation -- Immediate possession.

.640   Joint owners of private passway to share costs.

.650   Enforcement of payment of joint expenses.

.660   Condemnation for underground water pipes.

.670   Owner's consent required for certain routes.

.680   Person condemning land may enter it, when.

.690   Protection of burial grounds by cities.

.695   Repealed, 1978.

.697   Cemeteries maintained by legal owners.

.700   Care of burial grounds by owners.

.710   Evidence of dedication or use of land as burying ground.

.715   Burial rights in cemetery lots -- Abandonment -- Resale by cemetery.

.720   Abandoned cemetery in certain cities, proceedings to vest title in city.

.730   Notice of suit.

.740   Assertion of claim to compensation for value of interest in cemetery or lot.

.750   Judgment -- Removal of bodies and monuments.

.755   Removal of grave or cemetery on application of landowner or county -- Procedure -- Expenses.

.760   Cost of proceeding -- Burden of proof.

.765   Disinterment, removal, and reinterment of graves by Commonwealth, political subdivision or electric power company; Removal by licensed funeral director.

.767   Contracts exempt from KRS 381.765.

.770   Abatement of nuisance -- Exceptions -- Enforcement ordinance -- Lien -- Personal liability of property owner.

.775   Voluntary agreement with property owner for demolition or removal or dilapidated building.

.780   Removal of open toilets in city of first or second class -- City's lien on property for cost of removal.

Horizontal Property Law

.805   Short title.

.810   Definitions for KRS 381.805 to 381.910.

.815   Establishment of a condominium property regime.

.820   Conveyance of units -- Recordation.

.825   Joint or common ownership.

.827   Requirements for subdividing units.

.830   Ownership of unit -- Use of general common elements.

.835   Recording -- Requirements of master deed or lease -- Record of floor plans.

.837   Master deed exceptions.

.840   Individual deeds -- Contents.

.845   Repealed, 1974.

.850   Waiver of regime -- Effect of encumbrances.

.855   Subsequent reestablishment of regime.

.860   Administration of building.

.865   Books of account -- Inspection -- Audit.

.870   Maintenance -- Pro rata contribution -- Adjustments.

.875   Exemptions.

.880   Repealed, 1966.

.883   Lien for unpaid assessments -- Foreclosure -- Suit.

.885   Insurance.

.890   Destruction -- Reconstruction.

.895   Repealed, 1974

.897   Individual and common liabilities for injuries or damages.

.900   Tax assessments -- Individual liability -- Forfeiture or sale.

.905   Interpretation of KRS 381.805 to 381.910.

.910   Planning and zoning.

Mineral Deeds

.930   Purposes of KRS 381.935 to 381.945.

.935   Definitions.

.940   Rules of construction for mineral deeds relating to coal extraction.

.945   Written agreement in deed directing how surface to be reclaimed.

Penalties

.990   Penalties.

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