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title: "Recording Statute"
type: Legal Term
source: https://casebriefly.com/legal-terms/recording-statute
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# Recording Statute

Recording statutes govern the priority of competing claims to real property by determining the effect of recording (or failing to record) a deed or other conveyance. There are three types: race statutes (first to record wins, regardless of notice), notice statutes (a subsequent bona fide purchaser without notice prevails over a prior unrecorded conveyance), and race-notice statutes (a subsequent bona fide purchaser without notice who records first prevails). Recording provides constructive notice to the world of the conveyance.

## Related Terms

- covenant
- servitude
- easement

## Related Cases

- harper-v-paradise

## Example

O sells Blackacre to A (who does not record), then to B (a bona fide purchaser without notice). Under a notice statute, B prevails even if B has not yet recorded.

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Source: [Recording Statute — CaseBriefly](https://casebriefly.com/legal-terms/recording-statute)