Title Search Report (TSR)
Also known as: TSR, title report, title search
A Title Search Report is a lawyer-signed document that traces a property's ownership history, confirms whether the current owner holds clear and marketable title, and lists every encumbrance, litigation and statutory restriction affecting it.
A TSR is built by reading the chain of registered deeds - normally over 30 years - alongside the revenue record, the Encumbrance Certificate, mutation entries and a litigation search across the courts with jurisdiction. The report states the searcher's opinion on marketability and lists requisitions: the documents or clarifications still needed before the transaction is safe. A TSR is only meaningful when signed by a lawyer who accepts professional responsibility for the opinion.
- What it proves
- The opinion of a qualified lawyer on the marketability of title as at the date of the report.
- What it does not prove
- A TSR is an opinion, not a guarantee. It cannot surface an unregistered instrument, an undisclosed heir who never appeared in any record, or a fraud that was executed convincingly.
How Deedwise checks this
These checks in the Deedwise Title Check Standard cover Title Search Report:
- T001Chain CompletenessA chain of title that does not run unbroken from the root of title to the present owner.
- T006Mother Deed VerificationA chain whose root document is missing, unverified, or does not establish what the later deeds claim.
- T023Revenue Record / Deed-Chain Owner ReconciliationThe person recorded in the revenue record differing from the owner established by the registered deeds.
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