An unacknowledged deed, and any instrument intended as a conveyance of land, but which by reason of a formal defect operates only as a conveyance of an equitable interest in such land, and any contract for the conveyance of land, or of any interest therein, and any instrument by which an equitable interest in land is created, in which such land is particularly described, may be recorded in the records of the town in which such land is situated; and such record shall be notice to all the world of the equitable interest thus created.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-17
Records of documents as notice of equitable rights
Known as the Dormant Mineral Interests Act
The act spans §§ 47–47 (84 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case CALVERT v. SWINFORD (2016)
Most recently applied in CALVERT v. SWINFORD (October 2016)
(1949 Rev., S. 7100.)
Official source: Connecticut General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Connecticut statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.