Pennsylvania Act 1925-327 — RECORDING OF DEEDS, REGULATION

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RECORDING OF DEEDS, REGULATION
                  Act of May 12, 1925, P.L. 613, No. 327              Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     Regulating the recording of certain deeds, conveyances, and
        other instruments of writing, and fixing the effect thereof
        as to subsequent purchasers, mortgagees, and judgment
        creditors.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That all deeds, conveyances,
     contracts, and other instruments of writing wherein it shall be
     the intention of the parties executing the same to grant,
     bargain, sell, and convey any lands, tenements, or hereditaments
     situate in this Commonwealth, upon being acknowledged by the
     parties executing the same or proved in the manner provided by
     the laws of this Commonwealth, shall be recorded in the office
     for the recording of deeds in the county where such lands,
     tenements, and hereditaments are situate. Every such deed,
     conveyance, contract, or other instrument of writing which shall
     not be acknowledged or proved and recorded, as aforesaid, shall
     be adjudged fraudulent and void as to any subsequent bona fide
     purchaser or mortgagee or holder of any judgment, duly entered
     in the prothonotary's office of the county in which the lands,
     tenements, or hereditaments are situate, without actual or
     constructive notice unless such deed, conveyance, contract, or
     instrument of writing shall be recorded, as aforesaid, before
     the recording of the deed or conveyance or the entry of the
     judgment under which such subsequent purchaser, mortgagee, or
     judgment creditor shall claim. Nothing contained in this act
     shall be construed to repeal or modify any law providing for the
     lien of purchase money mortgages.
        (1 amended June 12, 1931, P.L.558, No.191)