Recording Acts
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Statutes which regulate the official recording of conveyances, mortgages, bills of sale, hypothecations, assignments for the benefit of creditors, articles of agreement, and other instruments, for the purpose of informing the public, creditors and purchasers, of transactions affecting the ownership of property and the pecuniary responsibility of individual persons. See Record.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Statutes enacted in the several states relative to the official recording of deeds, mortgages, bllls of sale, chattel mortgages, etc., and the effect of such records as notice to creditors, purchasers, incumbrancers, and others interested.