Every title-bond or other written contract in relation to land may be acknowledged or proved, and certified and recorded, in the same manner as conveyances of land; and such acknowledgment or proof, and the proper certificate thereof and delivery to the clerk of the chancery court of the proper county to be recorded, shall be notice to all subsequent purchasers of the existence of such bond or contract.
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-5-7
Written contracts in relation to land recordable
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 666 F. Supp. 919 - Buras v. Shell Oil Co. (1987)
Most recently applied in Community Trust Bank of Mississippi v. First National Bank of Clarksdale (September 2014)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 42, art. 1 (6); 1857, ch. 36, art. 24; 1871, § 2307; 1880, § 1214; 1892, § 2459; 1906, § 2789; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2293; 1930, § 2141; 1942, § 862.
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