Prepare lists of all legal instruments applying to a specific piece of land and the buildings on it.

“Prepare lists of all legal instruments applying to a specific piece of land and the buildings on it.” is a core task performed by Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers. Among the occupation's 17 rated tasks, workers place it 12th by importance (#6 most important). About 88% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Prepare legal or regulatory documents. in Documenting/Recording Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Examine documentation such as mortgages, liens, judgments, easements, plat books, maps, contracts, and agreements to verify factors such as properties' legal descriptions, ownership, or restrictions. · importance 4.8
• Examine individual titles to determine if restrictions, such as delinquent taxes, will affect titles and limit property use. · importance 4.6
• Prepare reports describing any title encumbrances encountered during searching activities and outlining actions needed to clear titles. · importance 4.6
• Copy or summarize recorded documents, such as mortgages, trust deeds, and contracts, that affect property titles. · importance 4.5
• Verify accuracy and completeness of land-related documents accepted for registration, preparing rejection notices when documents are not acceptable. · importance 4.5
• Prepare and issue title commitments and title insurance policies, based on information compiled from title searches. · importance 4.3
• Read search requests to ascertain types of title evidence required and to obtain descriptions of properties and names of involved parties. · importance 4.2
• Obtain maps or drawings delineating properties from company title plants, county surveyors, or assessors' offices. · importance 4.2
• Confer with realtors, lending institution personnel, buyers, sellers, contractors, surveyors, and courthouse personnel to exchange title-related information or to resolve problems. · importance 4.2
• Enter into record-keeping systems appropriate data needed to create new title records or to update existing ones. · importance 4.0
• Direct activities of workers who search records and examine titles, assigning, scheduling, and evaluating work, and providing technical guidance as necessary. · importance 4.0
• Retrieve and examine real estate closing files for accuracy and to ensure that information included is recorded and executed according to regulations. · importance 4.0
• Determine whether land-related documents can be registered under the relevant legislation, such as the Land Titles Act. · importance 3.6
• Assess fees related to registration of property-related documents. · importance 3.4

See all tasks on the Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-9230,
  title  = {Prepare lists of all legal instruments applying to a specific piece of land and the buildings on it.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-9230}
}