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A.R.S. § 33-412

Invalidity of unrecorded instruments as to bona fide purchaser or creditor

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 13 Ariz. App. 39 - Valley National Bank v. Hay (1970)

Most recently applied in New Asset Subsidiary, L.L.C. v. Zelms (In re BFA Liquidation Trust) (September 2005)

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A. All bargains, sales and other conveyances whatever of lands, tenements and hereditaments, whether made for passing an estate of freehold or inheritance or an estate for a term of years, and deeds of settlement upon marriage, whether of land, money or other personal property, and deeds of trust and mortgages of whatever kind, shall be void as to creditors and subsequent purchasers for valuable consideration without notice, unless they are acknowledged and recorded in the office of the county recorder as required by law.

B. Unrecorded instruments, as between the parties and their heirs, and as to all subsequent purchasers with notice thereof, or without valuable consideration, shall be valid and binding.

Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.