Effect of failure to record
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Salt Lake County v. Metro West Ready Mix, Inc. (2004)
Most recently applied in 2025 UT App 47 - Lavender v. FCOI Preserve (April 2025)
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 61, 1998 General Session
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.
Each document not recorded as provided in this title is void as against any subsequent purchaser of the same real property, or any portion of it, if:
(1) the subsequent purchaser purchased the property in good faith and for a valuable consideration; and
(2) the subsequent purchaser's document is first duly recorded.
Official source: Utah State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Utah statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.