Historical Research Series
The Origins of the Recording Acts
Colonial registries, the Statute of Enrolments, and the American invention of the public record.
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Bibliographic Record
Metadata.
- Series
- Historical Research Series
- Volume
- Monograph No. 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publication Date
- MMXXV
- Document Type
- Research Monograph
- Status
- In Press
- Authors
- Faculty of the School of Property Law
- ISBN
- 978-1-959000-10-9
- Permanent Identifier
- origins-of-the-recording-acts
- Subjects
- Legal history · Recording acts · Colonial law
- Keywords
- Legal history, Recording acts, Colonial law
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Abstract
On the scope of the work.
A historical study of the American recording acts, traced from the colonial registries of Massachusetts and Virginia through the nineteenth-century race-notice statutes to their modern form.
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Editorial Description
On the structure of the volume.
The monograph reads the recording acts not as a technical accommodation but as an institutional invention — the public record as a working substitute for livery of seisin.
Part I treats the English background: the Statute of Enrolments, the doctrine of notice, and the equitable supplements to the common-law rule.
Part II reads the colonial registry acts as a deliberate departure from the English settlement, with attention to the Massachusetts and Virginia statutes of the seventeenth century.
Part III follows the recording acts into the nineteenth century — race, notice, and race-notice — and to the form they take in the modern statutes.
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Series
Historical Research Series
Research monographs in legal history and doctrinal development — how a rule came to be what it is.
Historical monographs are sourced to the period record: session laws, court reports, treatises, and contemporary commentary.
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Related Schools
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Preferred Citation
On citing this work.
Faculty of the School of Property Law, The Origins of the Recording Acts, Real Law Society Historical Research Series Monograph No. 1 (1st ed. MMXXV).
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Editorial Notes
On revision and review.
Prior editions of this work, where any, are retained in the institutional archive of the Society. Citations in the present edition have been verified against the controlling source as of the date of publication.
The work was reviewed by faculty of the relevant School before issue and is subject to revision as the governing instruments change. The Press accepts no instruction from outside the institution.
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