recording act
recording act. A law that establishes the requirements for recording a deed or other property interest and the standards for determining priorities between persons claiming interests in the same property (usu. real property). • Recording acts — the three main types of which are the notice statute, the race statute, and the race-notice statute — are designed to protect bona fide purchasers from earlier unrecorded interests. — Also termed recording statute. See NOTICE STATUTE; RACE STATUTE; RACE-NOTICE STATUTE. [Cases: Deeds 83; Records 9; Vendor and Purchaser 231. C.J.S. Deeds § 158; Registers of Deeds §§ 2–71; Vendor and Purchaser § 496.]
