Texas Property Code

§ 5.028 — CORRECTION INSTRUMENTS: NONMATERIAL CORRECTIONS

PR § 5.028Title 2. CONVEYANCES · Ch. 5. CONVEYANCES · Art. B. FORM AND CONSTRUCTION OF INSTRUMENTS

Statute text

(a)A person who has personal knowledge of facts relevant to the correction of a recorded original instrument of conveyance may prepare or execute a correction instrument to make a nonmaterial change that results from a clerical error, including:

(1)a correction of an inaccurate or incorrect element in a legal description, such as a distance, angle, direction, bearing or chord, a reference to a plat or other plat information, a lot or block number, a unit, building designation, or section number, an appurtenant easement, a township name or number, a municipality, county, or state name, a range number or meridian, a certified survey map number, or a subdivision or condominium name; or

(2)an addition, correction, or clarification of:

(A)a party's name, including the spelling of a name, a first or middle name or initial, a suffix, an alternate name by which a party is known, the identity of the trustee of a trust named as party, or a description of an entity as a corporation, company, or other type of organization;

(B)a party's marital status;

(C)the date on which the conveyance was executed;

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Legislative history

Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 158 (S.B. 887), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013. Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 345 (S.B. 801), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.