INSTRUCTIONS

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  Title to real estate is transfered by a deed.Hemera Technologies/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images
  
  Prepare a written conveyance, such as a deed, a bill of sale or a certificate of title, legally identifying the property to be titled. There is a proper way to describe certain property. Real estate must have a legal description, which typically includes the street address, but it also has a more exact description by metes and bounds. This is found on all deeds, stating the specific state, county and section of the county where the property is located. The legal description will have the exact measurements of the outside boundaries, north, east, south and west, beginning at point "A" and then around the property back to point "A." Automobiles and house trailers are identified by make and model number and will include vehicle identification numbers. Other personal property such as televisions and computers also will have model and serial numbers.
  
  
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  Some documents of title are recorded with the government records.Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images
  
  Execute in writing the deed, the certificate of title or the bill of sale. Be sure to identify the previous owner and the new owner. Real estate, land and buildings will designate the title owner on a document called a deed. It can be a quitclaim deed or a warranty deed. Automobiles and house trailers list the title owner on a certificate of title. Other personalty will designate title owner in a bill of sale. The title documents to real estate, autos and trailers are filed as a public record with the appropriate government agency that keeps track of titles for the benefit of the public to confirm true legal ownership.
  
  
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  Sometimes a court of law will convey title.Creatas Images/Creatas/Getty Images
  
  Record the executed document with the proper legal authority. Each time ownership of property is changed, the process is repeated. The property is identified as required, the previous owner conveys to the new title owner and, where required, the document is filed with the proper governmental entity as a public record. Sometimes conveyances are not done voluntarily by the owner, but by order of a court in a judicial proceeding. However, even in a court order, which is ultimately filed as a public record, the precise identity of the new title owner must be included in the court order of transfer. The notice of the new title owner declared in the filed court order also serves as notice to the public of the new legal owner.