Pennsylvania Code
Title 231 - RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
Part I - GENERAL
Chapter 1000 - ACTIONS
Subchapter D - ACTION TO QUIET TITLE
Rule 1066 - Form of Judgment or Order
Universal Citation: 231 PA Code ยง 1066
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 38, September 21, 2024
(a) The court shall grant appropriate relief upon affidavit that a complaint containing a notice to defend has been served and that the defendant has not filed an answer, or after a hearing or trial on the pleadings or merits.
(b) Upon granting relief to the plaintiff, the court
(1) shall order that the defendant be forever
barred from asserting any right, lien, title or interest in the land
inconsistent with the interest or claim of the plaintiff set forth in the
complaint, unless the defendant takes such action as the order directs within
thirty days thereafter. If such action is not taken within the thirty-day
period, the prothonotary on praecipe of the plaintiff shall enter final
judgment;
(2) shall enter a final
judgment that a document, obligation or deed affecting a right, lien, title or
interest in the land is cancelled or is valid, invalid or discharged or that a
copy of a lost plan, document, obligation or deed is an authentic
copy;
(3) shall enter a final
judgment ordering the defendant, the prothonotary, or the recorder of deeds to
file, record, cancel, surrender or satisfy of record, as the case may be, any
plan, document, obligation or deed determined to be valid, invalid, satisfied
or discharged, and to execute and deliver any document, obligation or deed
necessary to make the order effective; or
(4) shall enter any other order necessary for
the granting of proper relief.
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