The charter. The warranty. The highway.
Most settlement companies are named after a county, a compass direction, or a founder's initials. Ours is named after the standard a Pennsylvania title search is held to. Three reasons, in ascending order of coincidence.
The charter
Pennsylvania's land-title history traces back to William Penn's 1681 charter — through proprietary warrants, surveys, and patents, then forward, deed by deed, to today. A title search is a walk back down that chain. We go as far as the file requires.
The warranty
When a seller signs a general warranty deed, they promise title good against the world — a covenant that reaches back, in principle, to Penn himself. Before anyone relies on a promise that size, someone should check it. That's the work.
The highway
Our office is at 3950 William Penn Highway in Murrysville. “Rooted in Pennsylvania” isn't a slogan we bought — it's the address on the door.
Charles II grants Pennsylvania to William Penn by royal charter.
Proprietary warrants, surveys, and patents put settlers on the land.
The Commonwealth succeeds the Penns; patents issue in its name.
Deed by deed — including the oil & gas reservations Western Pennsylvania is famous for.
Searched, examined, insured — and warranted the whole way down.
The chain of title we walk, on every file.
A name that keeps us honest.
Western Pennsylvania title work has a personality: oil and gas reservations that surface three owners back, family farms conveyed by estates, unreleased mortgages from banks that no longer exist, and county records that reward the examiner who actually reads them. A search that stops at the minimum can miss the exception that becomes your problem in year three.
Naming the company after the far end of the chain is our way of stating the standard out loud: the file gets examined by a licensed Pennsylvania attorney, the exceptions get explained in plain English before closing, and the policy that issues is one we'd rely on ourselves.
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