[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR644.65]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
              CHAPTER V--DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 644--REAL ESTATE HANDBOOK--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart C--Acquisition
 
Sec. 644.65  Ordering title evidence.

    (a) Placing Orders. Where the contract does not specify the order in 
which title evidence for particular tracts will be furnished, orders 
will be submitted to the abstractor or title company on ENG Form 1011, 
Order for Title Evidence. An accurate legal description of the tract of 
land involved will be attached to the order or will be typed thereon.
    (b) Orders Based on Contiguous Areas. If the contract does not 
contain a list

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of tracts for which title evidence is to be furnished, orders will be 
based on contiguous areas of land in identical ownership and will be 
deemed to be contiguous even though crossed by roads, railroads, rights-
of-way, or streams. In such event the variation in quantity shall not 
exceed plus or minus ten percent as prescribed by ASPR. If there has 
been a severance of surface and subsurface estates, determination of 
what constitutes a tract will be based on ownership of the surface. 
However, in unusual cases where such a contiguous area is composed of 
several parcels derived through separate chains of title and requiring 
separate searches of each chain of title down to a comparatively recent 
date or where such contiguous area lies in more than one section, the 
Contracting Officer may contract to pay a specified reasonable 
additional charge for each such additional chain or section if such 
additional charge is customary in the locality where the land lies.
    (c) Type of Title Evidence. The order will set forth the type of 
evidence to be furnished. When abstracts are contracted for, the 
following rules will be observed:
    (1) If an abstract of title in satisfactory form cannot be procured 
from the landowner, a new abstract will be ordered.
    (2) If an abstract in satisfactory form is procured from a 
landowner, the abstract will be transmitted to the abstractor with an 
order for a continuation of the old abstract.