What is CLOUD ON TITLE? Definition of CLOUD ON TITLE in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
An outstanding claim or incumbrance which, if valid, would affect or impair the title of the owner of a particular estate, and on its face has that effect, but can be shown by extrinsic proof to be invalid or inapplicable to the estate in que3tion. A conveyance, mortgage, judgment, tax-levy, etc., may all, in proper cases, constitute a cloud on title. Parker v. Vallerand, 136 Me. 519, 8 A.2d 594; Anderson v. Guenther, 144 Or. 446, 25 P.2d 146.
It is not necessary in West Virginia that claim be valid on its face. Gardner v. Buckeye Savings & Loan Co., 108
W.Va. 673, 152 S.E. 530, 532.
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