Grants, absolute in terms, are to be recorded in one set of books, and mortgages in another.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1171
Mode of Recording
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Kent v. Williams (1905)
Most recently applied in 594 F. App'x 443 - Paul Carrick v. Santa Cruz County (March 2015)
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.