RECORDS OF RELEASES AND OTHER ACTIONS
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Harris County v. MERSCORP Inc. (2015)
Most recently applied in 675 F. App'x 396 - Johnson-Williams v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (January 2017)
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1248, Sec. 53, eff
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.
(a) To release, transfer, assign, or take another action relating to an instrument that is filed, registered, or recorded in the office of the county clerk, a person must file, register, or record another instrument relating to the action in the same manner as the original instrument was required to be filed, registered, or recorded.
(b) An entry, including a marginal entry, may not be made on a previously made record or index to indicate the new action.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.