Title Examination Standards
Chapter 1, App.
Chapter 6. Execution, Acknowledgment and Recording
§6.3. Revenue Stamps.

The absence of documentary stamps from an instrument or its record does not impair or affect the marketability of the title or necessitate inquiry.

Authority: P. Basye, Clearing Land Titles § 11.15 (3d ed.). Similar Standards: Colo. 9.5.1; Georgia 4.3. The Report of the 2025 Title Examination Standards Committee: The reference to Internal Revenue or Oklahoma was removed from the Standard.

The current wording and authorities were recommended by the 1973 Report of the Real Property Committee, 44 O.B.A.J. 3319-20, 3431-32, 3535-36, & 3613-14 (1973). The proposal was adopted on November 30, 1973, by the House of Delegates, 45 O.B.A.J. 652. The standard for which this substitution was made read: "The absence of revenue stamps on a deed does not affect the marketability of the title." The standard in that form had been adopted as G., September 1946, 17 O.B.A.J. 1372 (1946); became 7 on numbering in 1946, id. at 1578 & 1751; became 23 on renumbering in 1948, 19 O.B.A.J. 223, 228 (1948).

The 2025 Title Examination Standards Sub-Committee of the Real Property Law Section recommends a change to 6.3 to remove language referring to an Internal Revenue document stamp.The Real Property Section approved the proposal, and the House of Delegates adopted the new amendment on November 7, 2025. (superseded document available).