From my research,
Land patents exist at law. Being at law, they only recognize one and only one owner. That owner has to be a flesh-and-blood man, not a legal fiction. Anything less than that (deeds) are statutory constructions. The registering of your property to the State is what makes one liable for property taxes. The services the State provides for the registration of your property to them, in part, are public schools. In registering, you abandon sole ownership for splitting of the title into legal and equitable interests. You keep the legal title. State (and bank) retain equitable interests in "your" property.
Land patents can't be in the name of trusts. Trusts would be akin to an artificial entity. Land grants were given to corporations, but only by a special act of Congress such as railroad companies and colleges.
Quote:
From the case Leading Fighter v Gregory County:
Patents are issued only by sovereign powers while deeds are executed by persons and private corporations.
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Have you even done a chain of title search from your deed all the way back to the letters patent (abstract of title)? That is the first thing that must be done and the chain must be unbroken.
If you want more information, then you should look at the links in my previous post. David Wilbur Johnson is the person to listen to or even contact, but don't contact him if you haven't done a complete abstract of your property all the way back to the letters patent.
Here is a lively discussion from our forum on land patents, titles, deeds, etc.
http://www.suijuris.net/forum/land-o...5-torrens.html
Learn all you can on both sides of real estate, at law as well as in equity.
Regards,
netwrkranger