This guide covers title, survey, and closing practice systematically. The opening parts cover what a title examination searches, the recording acts that determine priority among competing claims, and the marketable title standard that a purchase contract typically requires. A detailed part reads the title commitment schedule by schedule, treating Schedule B-I requirements as a work list and Schedule B-II exceptions as the definition of what the policy does not cover, with the standard exceptions that can be removed and the endorsements worth obtaining. Later parts catalogue the recurring defects — unreleased mortgages, judgment and tax liens, estate and heirship problems, defective descriptions, easements, mechanic's liens, and survey discrepancies — and match each to its cure, from corrective instruments and affidavits through bonding, insuring over, escrow, and quiet title. Separate parts cover title insurance coverage and claims, survey types and what each reveals, federal settlement and disclosure requirements, liens with special rules including federal tax liens and bankruptcy in the chain, distressed-sale titles, and the remedies available when a closing fails.