Inchoate instrument
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Instruments which the law requires to be registered or recorded are said to be "inchoate" prior to registration, iu that they are then good only between the parties and privies and as to persons having notice.
Wilkins v. McCorkle, 112 Tenn. 688, 80 S. W. 834,