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Sample Full Matter Analysis
Three invented cash sales of an invented lot, run through the same chain investigation DrillTitle uses on recorded instruments. Every finding below is the engine’s own output — including what it could not establish.
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- Matter
- SAMPLE-MATTER-0001 (fictional)
- Parish
- Caddo Parish, Louisiana
- Property
- Lot 12, Fictional Acres Subdivision, Unit No. 3, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, as per plat recorded in Book 9999, Page 1 of the Conveyance Records of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, together with all improvements thereon, having municipal address of 300 Imaginary Court, Shreveport, Louisiana. (Geographical No. 999999-000-0012)
- Municipal address
- 300 Imaginary Court, Shreveport, Louisiana
- Geographic no.
- 999999-000-0012
- Seed instrument
- 9100003 — the examination starts here and walks back
- Record examined
- 3 synthetic instruments; 3 read, 2 chain links followed
- Examined through
- 2024-03-15
- Engine version
- 1.1.0
- How the run ended
- every question this run raised was answered or refused
WITHHELD. The findings below must be cleared before an opinion can issue.
Instrument timeline
| Recorded | Executed | Instrument | Kind | From | To | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-11 | 1979-05-09 | 9100001 | Cash sale | HAROLD JAMES PLACEHOLDER | WALTER EDWIN SPECIMEN | TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($22,000.00) DOLLARS |
| 1994-10-24 | 1994-10-21 | 9100002 | Cash sale | WALTER EDWIN SPECIMEN | MARGARET ELLEN SAMPLE | SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($65,000.00) DOLLARS |
| 2024-03-15 | 2024-03-14 | 9100003 | Cash sale | GEORGE HENRY SAMPLE, MARGARET ELLEN SAMPLE | THOMAS ARTHUR EXAMPLE | ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($150,000.00) DOLLARS |
Ownership
Current apparent ownership
THOMAS ARTHUR EXAMPLE · 1/1 · sole
Transfers
| From | Until | Holding | Established by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-11 | 1994-10-24 | WALTER EDWIN SPECIMEN · 1/1 · sole | 9100001 |
| 1994-10-24 | 2024-03-15 | MARGARET ELLEN SAMPLE and GEORGE HENRY SAMPLE · 1/1 · community | 9100002 |
| 2024-03-15 | present, as far as the record shows | THOMAS ARTHUR EXAMPLE · 1/1 · sole | 9100003 |
Parties and relationships
| Name, as written | Appears as | Marital status stated | Spouse named |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAROLD JAMES PLACEHOLDER | vendor in 9100001 | not stated | RUTH ANN PLACEHOLDER (9100001) |
| WALTER EDWIN SPECIMEN | vendee in 9100001 vendor in 9100002 | Single man (9100001) Single man (9100002) | not stated |
| MARGARET ELLEN SAMPLE | vendee in 9100002 vendor in 9100003 | Husband and wife (9100003) | GEORGE HENRY SAMPLE (9100002) |
| GEORGE HENRY SAMPLE | vendor in 9100003 | Husband and wife (9100003) | not stated |
| THOMAS ARTHUR EXAMPLE | vendee in 9100003 | Single man (9100003) | not stated |
Acquisition recitals and citations
9100001 states no acquisition recital — the chain cannot be walked back from it on its own say-so.
9100002 chars 1066–1227
Being the same property acquired by vendor from Harold James Placeholder by act recorded in the records of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, under Instrument No. 9100001.
- Acquired from
- Harold James Placeholder
- Cites instrument
- 9100001
- Locates a predecessor
- yes
9100003 chars 1142–1301
Being the same property acquired by vendors from Walter Edwin Specimen by act recorded in the records of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, under Instrument No. 9100002.
- Acquired from
- Walter Edwin Specimen
- Cites instrument
- 9100002
- Locates a predecessor
- yes
Chain links the engine followed
| From | To | Rests on | Answers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9100003 | 9100002 | a citation | how the vendor acquired |
| 9100002 | 9100001 | a citation | how the vendor acquired |
Gaps, conflicts, and declared limits
Exceptions an examiner would carry forward
- No encumbrance examination was made. No mortgage index was searched and no mortgage or conveyance certificate is annexed, so liens, judgments, mortgages, tax sales and adjudications are not covered by anything on this page.
- Title is traced to the earliest act this run could reach and no further. No index answered with an earlier act into any party named below, so the root is where the record ran out rather than a root anybody chose. This is not a chain to sovereignty and does not claim to be.
- 9100001 does not state how its vendor acquired. Searched and returned nothing — HAROLD JAMES PLACEHOLDER in the transcriptions held for this examination, read for who acquired, 3 document(s), on 2026-10-23. No conveyance index was searched — what answered was a folder, which covers what somebody put in it and not a parish.
- Chain stops at HAROLD JAMES PLACEHOLDER (9100001). Searched under: HAROLD JAMES PLACEHOLDER.
- Title of the spouses below rests on the community presumption. Each acquiring act recites a marriage and none recites the property separate, so half is presumed the other spouse's. The presumption is rebuttable.
- The ownership above puts "GEORGE HENRY SAMPLE" in title. No act names "GEORGE HENRY SAMPLE" as taking: "MARGARET ELLEN SAMPLE" acquired and the act states the marriage, and property acquired during a marriage is presumed community in Louisiana, so half is presumed to be "GEORGE HENRY SAMPLE"'s. The presumption is rebuttable and this examination read no act reciting the property separate.
Established by this examination
- The ownership stated here rests on 6 names nobody has resolved: GEORGE HENRY SAMPLE, HAROLD JAMES PLACEHOLDER, MARGARET ELLEN SAMPLE, RUTH ANN PLACEHOLDER, THOMAS ARTHUR EXAMPLE, WALTER EDWIN SPECIMEN. One spelling was taken as one party, so two spellings of one person are two owners and the shares balance while being wrong about who holds them. A table summing to one does not show this.
Out of scope
- 3 acts in the chain say nothing about minerals: 9100001, 9100002, 9100003. Silence is not clearance — neither severed nor left with the surface.
Not examined
Taxes · adjudications · federal liens · UCC-1F · bankruptcy · possession and acquisitive prescription · unrecorded servitudes · anything outside Caddo Parish, and anything not in this synthetic record.
Source documents
Instrument 9100001 — synthetic transcription
SYNTHETIC EXAMPLE - fictional parties and property. Not a recorded instrument. Caddo Parish, Instrument No. 9100001, recorded 05/11/1979 09:40 AM CASH SALE DEED STATE OF LOUISIANA PARISH OF CADDO BE IT KNOWN, That this day before me, the undersigned Notary Public in and for said Parish, duly commissioned and sworn, came and appeared HAROLD JAMES PLACEHOLDER, husband of RUTH ANN PLACEHOLDER, a resident of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, who declared that he does by these presents, GRANT, BARGAIN, SELL, CONVEY AND DELIVER, with full guarantee of title, and with complete transfer and subrogation of all rights and actions of warranty against all former proprietors of the property herein conveyed unto WALTER EDWIN SPECIMEN, a single man, a resident of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, the following described property, to-wit: Lot 12, Fictional Acres Subdivision, Unit No. 3, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, as per plat recorded in Book 9999, Page 1 of the Conveyance Records of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, together with all improvements thereon. (Geographical No. 999999-000-0012) TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said described property unto said purchaser, his heirs and assigns forever. This sale is made for the consideration of the sum of TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($22,000.00) DOLLARS cash in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged. DONE AND PASSED in said Parish of CADDO in the presence of the undersigned competent witnesses, on this the 9th day of May, 1979.
Instrument 9100002 — synthetic transcription
SYNTHETIC EXAMPLE - fictional parties and property. Not a recorded instrument. Caddo Parish, Instrument No. 9100002, recorded 10/24/1994 02:15 PM CASH SALE DEED STATE OF LOUISIANA PARISH OF CADDO BE IT KNOWN, That this day before me, the undersigned Notary Public in and for said Parish, duly commissioned and sworn, came and appeared WALTER EDWIN SPECIMEN, a single man, a resident of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, who declared that he does by these presents, GRANT, BARGAIN, SELL, CONVEY AND DELIVER, with full guarantee of title, and with complete transfer and subrogation of all rights and actions of warranty against all former proprietors of the property herein conveyed unto MARGARET ELLEN SAMPLE, wife of GEORGE HENRY SAMPLE, a resident of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, the following described property, to-wit: Lot 12, Fictional Acres Subdivision, Unit No. 3, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, as per plat recorded in Book 9999, Page 1 of the Conveyance Records of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, together with all improvements thereon. (Geographical No. 999999-000-0012) Being the same property acquired by vendor from Harold James Placeholder by act recorded in the records of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, under Instrument No. 9100001. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said described property unto said purchaser, her heirs and assigns forever. This sale is made for the consideration of the sum of SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($65,000.00) DOLLARS cash in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged. DONE AND PASSED in said Parish of CADDO in the presence of the undersigned competent witnesses, on this the 21st day of October, 1994.
Instrument 9100003 — synthetic transcription
SYNTHETIC EXAMPLE - fictional parties and property. Not a recorded instrument. Caddo Parish, Instrument No. 9100003, recorded 03/15/2024 10:05 AM CASH SALE DEED STATE OF LOUISIANA PARISH OF CADDO BE IT KNOWN, That this day before me, the undersigned Notary Public in and for said Parish, duly commissioned and sworn, came and appeared GEORGE HENRY SAMPLE and his wife, MARGARET ELLEN SAMPLE, residents of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, who declared that they do by these presents, GRANT, BARGAIN, SELL, CONVEY AND DELIVER, with full guarantee of title, and with complete transfer and subrogation of all rights and actions of warranty against all former proprietors of the property herein conveyed unto THOMAS ARTHUR EXAMPLE, a single man, a resident of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, the following described property, to-wit: Lot 12, Fictional Acres Subdivision, Unit No. 3, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, as per plat recorded in Book 9999, Page 1 of the Conveyance Records of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, together with all improvements thereon, having municipal address of 300 Imaginary Court, Shreveport, Louisiana. (Geographical No. 999999-000-0012) Being the same property acquired by vendors from Walter Edwin Specimen by act recorded in the records of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, under Instrument No. 9100002. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said described property unto said purchaser, his heirs and assigns forever. This sale is made for the consideration of the sum of ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($150,000.00) DOLLARS cash in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged. DONE AND PASSED in said Parish of CADDO in the presence of the undersigned competent witnesses, on this the 14th day of March, 2024.
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