Live demoLending02 / 05

Legal Search Report

A 30-year title search on a village loan file: chain of title, encumbrances, name mismatches and approvals, each finding linked to its source page.

Legal Search Report: output screenshot
What it does

From raw file to finished document.

The Legal Search Report is the document a lender relies on before it takes a property as security. This tool reads the loan file (deeds, encumbrance certificates, RTC, Form 9, tax receipts, conversion order) and writes the report: documents examined (original, certified copy or photocopy), searches made with their fee receipts, flow of title, encumbrances, revenue records, approvals, observations and the conditions before disbursement. Every statement carries a chip that opens the page it came from.

It reads

  • Title deeds across 30 years
  • Encumbrance certificates
  • RTC, mutation and Form 9
  • Conversion order, tax receipts, litigation search

It produces

  • Flow of title
  • Encumbrance analysis
  • Observations and opinion
  • Conditions before disbursement
  • List of documents to deposit
Before / After

The raw record, and what the tool makes of it.

Real screenshots from the live demo, on a fictional file. The numbered notes point at what the tool picked up.

Before
lsr-before. Annotated: Date of the conveyance; Vendor: the previous link in the chain; Recital pointing to the 2011 deed.
  1. Date of the conveyance
  2. Vendor: the previous link in the chain
  3. Recital pointing to the 2011 deed

The raw record: a registered sale deed from the loan file, one of twelve source documents.

After
lsr-after. Annotated: What needs action, at a glance; Every statement links to the page it came from; Original, certified copy or photocopy, for each document; Offices searched, with fee receipts; Chain of title rebuilt from the deeds.
  1. What needs action, at a glance
  2. Every statement links to the page it came from
  3. Original, certified copy or photocopy, for each document
  4. Offices searched, with fee receipts
  5. Chain of title rebuilt from the deeds

The output: the report on title, with counts of what needs action and every finding traced to its page.

How it works

Three steps, no retyping.

  1. Step 1

    Order the documents

    The file is sorted by date and each deed is linked into the chain of title.

  2. Step 2

    Run the checks

    EC coverage, open mortgages, name spellings, approvals, tax, originals seen and search receipts are each checked against the records.

  3. Step 3

    Write the report

    Findings become observations and conditions, with a source chip on every statement.

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