ARTICLE 2. Mode of Recording [1169 - 1173]
( Article 2 enacted 1872. )
Instruments entitled to be recorded must be recorded by the County Recorder of the county in which the real property affected thereby is situated.
(Enacted 1872.)
Section Eleven Hundred and Seventy. An instrument is deemed to be recorded when, being duly acknowledged or proved and certified, it is deposited in the Recorder’s office, with the proper officer, for record.
(Amended by Code Amendments 1873-74, Ch. 612.)
Grants, absolute in terms, are to be recorded in one set of books, and mortgages in another.
(Enacted 1872.)
The duties of county recorders, in respect to recording instruments, are prescribed by the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 593.)
The mode of recording transfers of ships registered under the laws of the United States is regulated by Acts of Congress.
(Enacted 1872.)