Recording System

Required Notice

NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY RIGHTS: IF YOU ARE A NATURAL PERSON, YOU MAY REMOVE OR STRIKE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION FROM THIS INSTRUMENT BEFORE IT IS FILED FOR RECORD IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS: YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER.

Sample Acknowledgment

Sample bottom 3½ inches

Document number

Book & page

Bexar County Records

Bexar County Clerk’s Office

Bexar County Appraisal District

Bexar County Tax Records

Texas Property Code § 13.001

A conveyance of real property or an interest in real property or a mortgage or deed of trust is void as to a creditor or to a subsequent purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice unless the instrument has been acknowledged, sworn to, or proved and filed for record as required by law.

Mountain States

1957 picture of Deli constructed on part of the Central Avenue Dairy, Inc. land involved in the case. Now part of Park Central Mall in Phoenix, Arizona.

Do not dig warning signs

Mugass v. Smith

Mortensen v. Lingo

Anchorage in about 1950.

Eastwood v. Shedd

Green Mountain Falls, Colorado

Eastwood v. Shedd

Green Mountain Falls, Colorado

Eastwood v. Shedd

Order of Events

Deed to Donee One [defendant] Deed to Donee Two [plaintiff] Donee Two had no knowledge

of Donee One Donee Two records Donee One records

Strong v. Whybark

Order of Events

Grantor deeds to Grantee One (More) for $640.

Grantor deeds to Grantee Two (Josephine) for “natural love and affection and five dollars”

Grantee Two had no knowledge of Grantee One

Grantee Two records Grantee One records