Cloud On Title
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A proceeding or Instrument, such as a deed or mortgage, or a tax or assessment, judgment or decree, land, but which is in fact invalid, such invalidity being demonstrable by proof of extrinsic facts. Equity has jurisdiction of actions brought to remove clouds on title by cancellation of instruments creating them.