How to register ownership of an ownerless land plot?

Many citizens who pay attention to abandoned plots of land often think about registering this ownerless plot as their own. Some want to expand their property, and some simply do not want to put up with a lot of garbage and an abundance of weeds in a certain area. This article is devoted to the analysis of how you can acquire rights to an abandoned plot.

What is an abandoned plot of land?

At the beginning, of course, it is necessary to define the concept of an ownerless thing.

According to Article 225 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, ownerless things (including real estate) can be considered:

Things that do not have an owner;
Items whose owner is unknown;
Items that have been relinquished by their owner.

It should be noted that in relation to the latter case, civil law does not specify what the owner needs to do to waive his right.

Turning to other legal acts, it can be noted that one of the ways the owner renounces his right of ownership may be a specific statement drawn up by him. Article 236 of the Civil Code specifies that a person may renounce the right to own property objects belonging to him (including a plot of land) by making an announcement or taking other actions that specifically demonstrate detachment from the possession, use and disposal of property objects.

However, such an owner should know that by renouncing the right of ownership, his rights and obligations as the owner of a certain property object (plot of land) do not cease until the moment when it passes into the possession of another owner.

The above points are an exhaustive list of options when a plot of land can be considered ownerless.

Arbitrage practice

Having considered a similar situation, the Moscow Regional Court, in an appeal ruling dated December 19, 2016 in case No. 33-32570/2016, indicated that members of the partnership who conscientiously used such land plots in accordance with their intended purpose, fulfilled the obligation to pay membership fees and other payments timely and in full, still does not have the right to demand recognition of their land ownership rights.

In this case, the plots could be provided to the plaintiffs by the local administration for a fee without holding a tender on the basis of subsection. 3 p. 2 art. 39.3 of the Land Code of the Russian Federation.

In addition, the local administration has a fairly long list of preferential categories (for example, large families) to which such plots can be distributed.

How to find information about an abandoned plot of land

To find information about an abandoned plot, use the electronic public cadastral map of the Russian Federation. To do this, go to the official website of Rosreestr. Using this map you can determine whether an ownerless area was previously formed.

Find your site on the electronic map. You can do this easily. In the upper left corner of the page, enter the cadastral number of your land. You can find it in the state registration certificate. After finding your site, find and view the abandoned site on the electronic map.

The red outline outlining the territory of the land indicates that this land was previously taken into account, which significantly simplifies the acquisition process. If it was not possible to familiarize yourself with the outlines of the ownerless site, therefore, it must first be formed from federal or city lands.

The right of ownership appears only after making a registration entry in the unified state real estate register. To carry out this action, you need to submit a certain package of documents to Rosreestr.

The Civil Code of the Russian Federation declares that lands that are not in the possession of citizens, organizations and municipalities are the property of the state.

Therefore, the first thing you need to do is determine who is the owner of the plot of land you are interested in. Remember that land owned by the municipality or the state can be transferred to the ownership of citizens for a fee. This action is carried out through trading.

Who can I contact to resolve the issue of an abandoned site in SNT?

If you have questions about an abandoned plot in SNT, you can seek advice and further recommendations from municipal land control inspectors in the territory of the municipality where the land plot of interest is located.

The powers of inspectors include monitoring the use of land, registering rights to municipal land plots and organizing the conclusion of contracts with applicants.

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How to find the owner of an abandoned plot of land

If you have decided to purchase an ownerless piece of land, first of all, you need to find who is its owner. To solve this problem, contact Rosreestr and request an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate.

You can obtain this information in several ways:

Contact the registration authority in person. When you arrive at the competent institution, receive a coupon to meet with a specialist. It is advisable to pay the state fee before meeting with the employee. Details are most often published on information stands. Payment terminals are located in the same building. The state fee is two hundred rubles, in addition to the bank commission. Using the advice of the employee, fill out the application. The documents will be ready in five working days;
Use the services of the Russian Post or send documents via email. To use this method, fill out the accepted application form and pay the state fee. If you apply through the post office, be sure to have the signature certified by a notary. When sending a request via email, you must have an electronic digital signature. The deadline for providing information is five working days. This method is suitable for those who do not want to stand in lines and have the skills to fill out the application correctly;
Request information via the Rosreestr website. This procedure is very simple: select the “Electronic Services” section, and then fill out a request to receive information from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. Next, instructions on payment methods will be sent to your email address. After five days, a message will be sent here. There will be a link and key necessary to review and download the electronic document.

Collecting information about an abandoned house

Houses can become abandoned for several main reasons:

the last owner died, and the heirs did not accept the inheritance or the court declared them unworthy heirs;
the last owner of the house had no heirs at all.

Thus, anyone who wants to take ownership of an abandoned house will first need to establish who it belonged to and whether he or she has any heirs. The easiest way to do this is by talking with your neighbors and, if possible, finding out the last name, first name, and patronymic of the last owner, as well as his relatives.

If it was not possible to obtain information in this way, then you need to contact Rosreestr to obtain an extract for the property, which will indicate information about the previous owners.

In situations where it was possible to find heirs, but they did not accept the inheritance, you will have to wait until they formalize it. And if the period for accepting the inheritance has already expired, then the heirs will need to recognize the ownership of the house in court - only after that will it be possible to buy the house from them.

If the heirs cannot be recognized in court, the house will become municipal or state property and then the issue of redemption will need to be resolved with the administration.

Documents confirming that the land plot does not have an owner

Documents that can confirm that a given piece of land has no or unknown owner:

Documents issued by the body for registration of state and municipal property stating that a specific site is not included in the register of federal property, property objects of constituent entities of the Russian Federation or the property complex of a municipality;
Documents issued by the competent authority registering the existence of rights to real estate before the adoption of the Federal Law “On State Registration of Rights to Real Estate and Transactions with It.”

If the owner of a plot of land has renounced the right of ownership to it, then attach a document confirming the fact of the renunciation.

What's next?

And then a person who wants to own this plot of land must submit an application to the administration to receive this plot of land for rent. Precisely for rent, and not immediately for ownership. The rental stage is provided for by law and cannot be circumvented.

Typically, the right to lease such plots is transferred to a person as a result of special auctions. To do this, the administration publicly announces an auction to conclude a lease agreement for a certain plot of land, after which applicants can submit their applications and become participants in the competition, as a result of which the winner will be selected.

Only certain groups of citizens can obtain the right to lease without participating in auctions. For example, outside the auction, large or young families, as well as war veterans and the disabled, can obtain a plot of land for rent. In all other cases, tenders must be called.

The winner of these auctions receives the right to conclude a lease agreement. The minimum rental period is 1 year. If during this time the plot of land was used for its established purpose without serious violations, then the tenant can order an official assessment of the land plot, and then, based on the assessment, contact the administration for the purpose of redemption.

The list of reasons for refusal to buy out is strictly regulated and limited, so usually the administration agrees to buy out the land. After this, all that remains is to formalize the transaction and submit documents for registration of ownership.

Transfer of ownerless land into municipal property

This event of acquiring ownership of an ownerless plot of land can cause significant difficulties. To begin with, an ownerless real estate object (plot of land) must be taken into account by the body that carries out state registration of rights. Only local authorities on whose land the plot of land is located have the opportunity to submit an application for registration.

The mechanism for registering an ownerless plot of land is established by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of September 17, 2003 N 580 “On approval of the Regulations on the registration of ownerless real estate.”

Simultaneously with filing the application, local authorities send to the Federal Registration Service a package of documents that can confirm that a certain piece of land does not have an owner, or the owner is unknown, or the owner has renounced the right of ownership.

If the owner of the land has renounced his right of ownership, then you need to attach a document that confirms this fact - a statement from the owner about the renunciation of ownership of the property. You also need a document that contains a description of the land, in particular a cadastral plan.

Registration of abandoned plots of land occurs by making certain entries in the Unified State Register of Rights.

A year after the ownerless site was registered, the body that is authorized to manage the property complex of the municipality has the right to apply to the court with the intention of recognizing this object as municipal property.

However, until the court determines the object to be municipal property, it may again acquire an owner (that is, it may be retaken into ownership by the owner who abandoned it), or it may be acquired into ownership on the basis of acquisitive prescription.

In a situation where a previous owner appears, regardless of the date of registration of a plot of land as ownerless, he has the right to apply to the body that carries out state registration of rights with an application to take ownership of the property. In such a situation, a plot of land is considered deregistered in the status of ownerless, from the time the recording of its deregistration is made.

Experts from the Federal Cadastral Chamber, together with RBC-Real Estate and lawyers, figured out the intricacies of this topic

Dilapidated, ownerless houses are a fairly common occurrence in cities and even more so in dacha communities or villages. Owners of neighboring houses may want to register such buildings for themselves. Moreover, this desire is absolutely legal.

How to register an ownerless house in your name? RBC-Real Estate, together with experts from the Federal Cadastral Chamber and lawyers, understood the intricacies of this topic.

What is an ownerless house and where to look for it

The nature of the occurrence of abandoned houses is different. For example, such real estate may arise if the owner died and the heirs abandoned the property, did not take ownership at the required time, or the owner had no heirs. A house can become abandoned because the previous owner moved away and left his property.

In Russia, as in many European countries, the largest proportion of abandoned houses are located in rural areas, sparsely populated urban districts or municipal areas. People migrate to big cities in search of better living conditions and leave their homes (sometimes difficult to sell in rural areas).

According to the Civil Code, a thing that does not have an owner, is unknown, or has been abandoned by the owner is considered ownerless (Clause 1, Article 225 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). A house whose owner is unknown or who has renounced ownership is called “ownerless” or “lost.” There is also the concept of “abandonment”. This is the name given to a house or plot whose owner is known or, as a result of a search, it was possible to identify him, but he does not take care of his property (explanations of the Cadastral Chamber).

There is no single list of ownerless residential buildings and land plots. However, a large amount of information can be found when ordering an extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate (USRN), if the “lost property” is registered. The extract will help reveal information about the house, its owner and possible encumbrances.

There are several ways to become the owner of an abandoned house. For example, find the owner and buy the property, purchase an “abandoned” property at auction from the municipality, or own an openly abandoned house for 15 years and subsequently become its legal owner. Let's talk about these options. Registration of an ownerless house. Instructions from the Cadastral Chamber

Step 1. Finding the owner and collecting information about the desired home

First of all, it is necessary to identify the owner of the house. If the site with the house is located on the territory of a garden partnership (SNT), you should first contact its chairman. Perhaps through it you will be able to find out the address and cadastral numbers of the house and plot. You can add high technology to your search. For example, try to find the cadastral numbers of a land plot and a house on a public cadastral map or by requesting information contained in the Unified State Register of Real Estate.

If it is unknown whether a homeless house is located in the SNT, you should contact the authorities authorized to issue a construction permit at the location of such a house. There, they may be able to help you find out who was issued permission to build the house you are interested in and, accordingly, provide information about the alleged owner of the house.

Option 1

When the owner of the building has been found, he will be able to transfer his property to you only through a civil transaction, most likely, under a purchase and sale agreement. But before this, you need to register the house in the cadastral register if information about it is not available in the Unified State Register of Real Estate.

The Land Code establishes that the fate of a land plot and objects firmly connected to it are the same. This means that it is more expedient to register ownership of this property, as well as its purchase, simultaneously with the purchase and registration of rights to the plot on which such a house is located.

Option 2

If the owner remains unknown, but you find out that the land plot under the house is located in SNT and is not registered in the Unified State Register of Real Estate, you need to contact the municipality again and proceed to the next stage.

Step 2. Submitting an application for ownership or lease of an abandoned site

To register it as property, you must submit an application to the authorized local government body to register the “owner” (we are talking about a capital construction project).

Within 15 working days from the date of receipt of the application and documents, the house will be entered into Rosreestr and a notification will be sent to you. If the site still has an owner, but the property was registered due to his abandonment of ownership, then he will also receive a notification.

Step 3. Appeal of local authorities to court

From the day the ownerless house is registered by the registration authority, you must wait a year - during this time its owner may appear. If this does not happen, then the authorized local government body can go to court and recognize ownership rights.

If the property is located in cities of federal significance: Moscow, St. Petersburg or Sevastopol, the executive authorities of these regions must apply to the court to register the ownerless property and then go to court. In all other cases - bodies authorized for state registration of rights to real estate, upon application of the local government body on whose territory the real estate being registered is located.

Step 4. Conducting an auction for an abandoned plot

After the abandoned plots become the property of the authorities, they are put up for auction. To purchase them, you need to win this auction.

“There are a number of cases provided for in Part 2 of Art. 39.3 of the Land Code, when you can buy a plot with a house, including an ownerless one, without bidding. This right is, for example, available to members of the SNT, on whose territory the house is located, if the land under it is not intended for general use,” noted the Cadastral Chamber.

The winner of the auction is the one who offers the highest price. If only one interested party takes part in the auction, then the agreement is concluded with a single participant. Or such a plot can be leased by the municipality to a person interested in it, added lawyer Elizaveta Marilova.

Step 5. Taking ownership

The result of registration of the right will be a special registration inscription on the agreement and the issuance of an extract from the Unified State Register. On average, the procedure for registering ownerless real estate takes a little more than a year. Acquisitive prescription, or 15 years of open ownership

Another way to become the legal owner of an ownerless house is indicated in Art. 234 of the Civil Code and is associated with such a concept as “acquisitive prescription”. According to this article, a citizen can occupy an ownerless house and live in it openly. If no legitimate claimants to ownership have been announced for 15 years, then the new owner has the opportunity to become the formal (legal) owner of the property, explained Elizaveta Marilova.

But for this to happen, three fundamental circumstances must be met. First, there is bona fide possession. For example, maintaining the land, carrying out planting work, paying for utilities. Secondly, open ownership. That is, the new owner does not hide the fact that the abandoned property is in his possession. Third, continuity of ownership. This means that the person owned and used the ownerless house throughout the entire period of acquisitive prescription, that is, 15 years.

“Simply put, if a citizen lived in an ownerless house and in fact this house was his only home for 15 years. Owning an abandoned house begins with the first fact confirming it. For example, from paying for housing and communal services or carrying out repair and construction work,” the lawyer said.

“At the same time, ownership of property as one’s own means ownership not by contract. It is for this reason that Art. 234 of the Civil Code does not apply if ownership of property is carried out on the basis of an agreement,” added Asiya Mukhamedshina, a member of the Russian Lawyers Association (RLA).

You can become the legal owner of an ownerless house on the basis of acquisitive prescription by a court decision. To do this, a total of at least 18 years must pass. “It is necessary to add a three-year limitation period to the 15-year period, namely, you can go to court only 18 years after the start of ownership of the property,” said the representative of the Law Firm.

After a court decision recognizing the ownership of an ownerless house, the new owner can register the ownership in Rosreestr and dispose of it as the full owner.

Price issue

Expenses when registering ownerless real estate involve, firstly, payment of the state fee for registering ownership, and secondly, payment for:

— extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate; — purchase or rental of an abandoned plot along with a house, if it is located there; — demolition of an abandoned house if the new owner does not need it; - construction of new facilities on this site, if the owner has such a desire.

There are also “ownerless” properties that need to be completed or invested in repairs. There may be additional costs for notary services when concluding an agreement and other costs.

Underwater rocks

A situation may arise when a person registered an “ownerless” property and registered the right to it, but the previous owner suddenly showed up. However, he claims that he did not receive notifications about transactions with his real estate from local authorities or did not know that his house was listed as ownerless. The former owner wants to challenge the new owner's right and evict him. This issue will have to be resolved in court.

The same applies to living in an abandoned house for 15 years. It must be taken into account that the owner of the house may appear at any moment and demand that you leave it. In this case, you will have to move out, because the resident has not yet acquired any rights to the house.

“If your physical 'investments' can be separated from your home and taken with you, then you can do it. It is possible to recover from such an owner the capital investments you made in the house (for example, in a situation where you prove that otherwise the house would have collapsed), but it is quite difficult. At the same time, you will have to confirm that you have done everything necessary to find the potential owner of the house,” the lawyer warned.

In general, when starting to buy out or register an abandoned property, you need to take into account that this procedure is quite lengthy and requires considerable investment.
Especially if the site and the house need serious care, repairs or even demolition. Such options are usually suitable for people who have an abandoned house in their neighborhood. In this case, the owner can expand his plot. But the main thing is to make sure that no one really needs the property. To avoid an unpleasant situation in the future. Photo: olegmorgun1311/shutterstock

The procedure for registering ownership of an ownerless land plot

To begin, send an application to the municipality about your desire to become the owner of a specific ownerless land. It is advisable to add to this statement the resolutions of the authorities to which you made inquiries during the search for the owner of the land. That is, you will demonstrate that the owner of the land is absent or unknown.

Local authorities will register the site for cadastral registration. Next, you need to wait twelve months so that the probable owners can announce their claims to it. After one year, the municipality applies to the judicial authority to recognize its own right to this plot of land.

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If the statement of claim contains convincing arguments, then the court issues a verdict recognizing the site as an ownerless property and placing it in the possession of the municipal authorities.

As per the standard procedure, you lease the site from the local authority.

Having concluded a lease agreement, begin collecting the following documents:

Geodetic plan (you can order it from a geodetic organization);
Master plan (can be ordered from the Bureau of Technical Inventory);
Application for transfer of ownership of a plot of land (drawn up at the district administration).

Along with the application, send to the administration:

Act on temporary possession of a land plot;
General plan;
Cadastral passport (previously created in the Cadastral Chamber).

After submitting this package of documents, you will learn the answer within a period of one to three months.

If the verdict is positive, you are obliged to buy the land from the administration at their proposed price (usually the average market price) and enter into a purchase and sale agreement.

The next stage is carrying out land surveying in order to obtain a new cadastral passport. To carry out this type of work, use the services of a licensed geodetic company.

After surveying, register the plot of land with the cadastral register and pick up a new cadastral passport. These steps are carried out at the Cadastral Chamber.

Registration of ownership rights to a land plot

The cost of land registration services is 2 thousand rubles. When submitting documents to the Rosreestr service (landmark plan and cadastral passport), do not forget to attach a receipt for payment of the state duty.

The procedure for legitimizing rights to a plot of land takes no more than 20 days.

After this time, you will receive an extract from the Unified State Register confirming ownership of the plot. From now on, you have the right to dispose of the land as you wish.

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How to register ownership of an abandoned land plot if its owner is known

If the land you are interested in is owned by an individual, then take the following steps:

Try to find the owner and also agree with him on the sale of his plot;
Be sure to document all negotiated agreements by entering into a Preliminary Sales and Purchase Agreement. In this document, carefully spell out mutual rights and obligations. This action will not allow the seller to make changes to already recorded agreements unilaterally. Thus, he will not be able to correct the price of the site, or refuse certain oral offers.

Next, you can conclude a purchase and sale agreement, at the end of which the entire range of rights to the plot will be transferred to you.

Fines for non-use of land

For violation of use standards (abandonment of the site, lack of construction and economic activity, organization of a landfill or violation of fire safety standards), the owner of the site will first be given a warning, then given a fine of at least 20,000 rubles (the amount depends on the cadastral value), and then taken to court.

True, if the owner of the plot is unknown, the administration will not look for him. You will have to regularly bombard them with letters indicating the problems of the site (fire hazard, violation of environmental standards, presence of criminal or suspicious elements, etc.).

Registration of ownerless land due to acquisitive prescription

One of the ways to acquire ownership of unowned real estate is to obtain it through acquisitive prescription.

Acquisitive prescription is the fact by which a person who is not the owner of a property, but responsibly, in good faith and constantly owns someone else’s real estate as his own for fifteen years, acquires the right to own the property.

The right to own real estate, which is subject to state registration, comes into effect in relation to the person who acquired this property under the terms of acquisitive prescription from the time of registration.

It should be noted that the calculation of the period of acquisitive limitation regarding property that is in the possession of the person from whose possession they could potentially be claimed (according to Articles 301 and 305 of the Civil Code) starts no earlier than the end of the limitation period for the relevant claims.

Thus, you have the right to apply to the court in order to acquire possession of an ownerless plot of land due to acquisitive prescription, no earlier than after eighteen years of conscientious exploitation.

How to calculate the statute of limitations

The acquisitive limitation period begins to run after the end of the limitation period of 3 years. During this time, the legal owners (heirs of the owners) can declare their rights to the site. If this circumstance occurs, the plot must be immediately returned to the owner.

If the owner does not show up within the period specified by law, you can submit an official appeal to the local administration with a request to provide ownership of the plot of land that you have been cultivating for a long time.

In most cases, the right to own a plot under such circumstances has to be defended in court.

For the court, prepare all the evidence at your disposal of conscientious cultivation of the land. A positive outcome will depend on how convincing the evidence you present is. For these purposes, enlist the support of neighbors who can confirm the fact that the land has been cultivated for a long time (at least 15 years).

Registration of ownerless land as property through the court

In a situation where the acquisition of a plot of land is based on acquisitive prescription, the mechanism for transferring ownership rights itself is carried out through the courts. During the court hearing, the actual owner is required to present evidence of the fact that for fifteen years he has continuously, openly and conscientiously owned and exploited this plot of land.

The latest characteristics mean:

Bona fide possession means that the owner, at the time of receipt of the object, assumed, perhaps in error, regarding the actual circumstances for the reasons for which he became its owner, and also that this gave him certain rights. That is, the owner did not and could not know about the illegality of his own possession;
Open possession means that the person did not perform any special actions to conceal the fact of possession of the object;
Continuous ownership means that the possession and operation of the plot must occur without interruption for the full period established by law for acquisitive prescription. Possession, which is carried out sporadically, demonstrates the lack of desire to possess the land and in this case terminates the period of acquisitive limitation. In addition, a person is obliged to carry out actions in relation to a piece of land that are characteristic of a caring owner. That is, to own an object as your own, treat it in the same way as your other property (make tax payments, comply with the rules on compulsory insurance, make repairs, and so on).

To demonstrate his own bona fide, open and continuous possession, a person has the right to submit various documents to the court. The verdict of the court constitutes the basis for registration of ownership rights.

Despite the fact that registration of ownership of an ownerless object, which is registered on the basis of acquisitive prescription, can be carried out regardless of the time of registration of this object.

Method 1 - formalize acquisitive prescription

The Civil Code has the concept of acquisitive prescription - if you openly own real estate for 15 years, then you can register ownership rights to it through the court. It is important to continuously use the house or site for its intended purpose throughout the entire period. For example, growing vegetables, planting trees, renovating a house and paying utility bills. You can add to the period of your ownership the period when, for example, the testator used the same property (if, for example, the father began to cultivate the abandoned plot, and after his death the son continued to care for the plantings).

How to register ownership of an ownerless land plot recognized as municipal property

Also worthy of special attention is the possibility of obtaining a site from local authorities after it is registered as ownerless. An ownerless object is registered by the body that carries out state registration of rights, upon the application of the local government authority on whose land they are located.

A year after the ownerless property is registered, the body that is authorized to manage municipal property has the right to apply to the court with the intention of recognizing the rights of municipal ownership of this object.

An ownerless real estate property, which has not been recognized by a court decision as municipal property, may again be taken into possession by the person who left it, or taken into possession on the basis of acquisitive prescription.

In this situation, obtaining ownerless land involves submitting an application to participate in the auction, after which the plot is subject to registration of ownership.

If the only application for participation in the auction for the sale of a plot of land that is in state or municipal ownership is submitted by a person who meets the requirements for auction participants specified in the notice of the auction, and the submitted application also meets the same requirements, then the sale of this plot is carried out to this person. face.

Is it possible to register ownership of an abandoned plot without going to court?

Depending on the specific situation, municipal ownership of an empty land plot can be registered without going to court.

Situations are common when, after the death of the owner of a neighboring plot many years ago, the board of SNT and the neighbors have no information about his heirs.

In such cases, the Register of Probate Cases, located on the website of the Federal Notary Chamber https://notariat.ru/ru-ru/help/probate-cases/, can help, where you can find out whether the inheritance case was opened by the heirs of the deceased gardener, and also from which namely a notary.

It is possible that the land plot you are interested in is escheated, since the inheritance case was not opened after the death of the gardener-testator, and all inherited property became the property of the Russian Federation (Part 1 of Article 1151 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation).

In this case, the land plot, as well as the buildings and structures located on it (as escheated property) pass by inheritance by law into the ownership of the urban or rural settlement, municipal district (in terms of inter-settlement territories) or urban district where the land plot is located ( Clause 2 of Article 1151 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation)

“Escheated property, in the case of inheritance of which refusal of inheritance is not allowed, from the day the inheritance is opened, passes by inheritance according to the law into the ownership of the Russian Federation, as well as regardless of the formalization of inheritance rights and their state registration. A certificate of the right to inheritance in relation to escheated property is issued by the Russian Federation in the same manner as to other heirs, without issuing a special court decision recognizing the property as escheat.” (Paragraph 50 of the Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court No. 9 of May 29, 2012 “On judicial practice in inheritance cases”).

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