Instruments entitled to be recorded must be recorded by the County Recorder of the county in which the real property affected thereby is situated.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1169
Mode of Recording
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 12 Cal. 4th 345 - Citizens for Covenant Compliance v. Anderson (1995)
Most recently applied in 171 Cal. App. 4th 1356 - Alfaro v. Community Housing Improvement System & Planning Assn., Inc. (March 2009)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.