The Real Law Society Treatise Series
Reading the Recorded Instrument
Deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, and the chain of title.
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Bibliographic Record
Metadata.
- Series
- The Real Law Society Treatise Series
- Volume
- Vol. II
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publication Date
- MMXXV
- Document Type
- Treatise
- Status
- Forthcoming
- Authors
- Faculty of the School of Property Law
- ISBN
- 978-1-959000-02-4
- Permanent Identifier
- reading-the-recorded-instrument
- Subjects
- Real property · Conveyancing · Recording acts
- Keywords
- Real property, Conveyancing, Recording acts
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Abstract
On the scope of the work.
A treatise on the recorded instrument as the unit of analysis in American real property law. The work reads deeds, mortgages, assignments, and satisfactions against the recording acts of the several states and the structure of the chain of title.
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Editorial Description
On the structure of the volume.
The treatise begins where title begins: with a written instrument lodged in a public office. The first part reads the deed — its operative words, its description, its execution, its acknowledgment — against the conveyancing statutes and the leading cases on each element.
Part II takes up the mortgage and its companions: the assignment, the satisfaction, and the substitution of trustee. Each is read as a recorded instrument whose force depends on what the public record shows.
Part III addresses the chain of title in its modern form: the search, the abstract, the title commitment, and the policy of title insurance. A closing chapter treats wild deeds, breaks in the chain, and the curative statutes.
The work is written for conveyancers, title examiners, and the litigator who must read a recorded instrument and explain it to a court.
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Series
The Real Law Society Treatise Series
Long-form doctrinal works. A treatise reads a body of law against its governing instruments and the cases that construe them.
Each treatise is read against the controlling statute, the regulation that implements it, and the leading appellate authority. Faculty review is required before publication.
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Related Schools
The faculty of the work.
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Related Library Divisions
The divisions of the archive consulted in the preparation of this work.
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Preferred Citation
On citing this work.
Faculty of the School of Property Law, Reading the Recorded Instrument, Real Law Society Treatise Series Vol. II (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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Related Publications
Other volumes in the catalogue.
Companion works from the same series, and other publications of the Press on related subjects.
Vol. I
The Duties of a Trustee
A reading of the Uniform Trust Code with annotations from the Restatement (Third) of Trusts.
In Press · MMXXV
Vol. III
The Architecture of Civil Procedure
Pleadings, motions, and the path of a case.
Forthcoming · MMXXVI
Monograph No. 1
The Origins of the Recording Acts
Colonial registries, the Statute of Enrolments, and the American invention of the public record.
In Press · MMXXV
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