65.08.070 - Real property conveyances to be recorded. - Washington Statutes

Real property conveyances to be recorded.

A conveyance of real property, when acknowledged by the person executing the same (the acknowledgment being certified as required by law), may be recorded in the office of the recording officer of the county where the property is situated. Every such conveyance not so recorded is void as against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee in good faith and for a valuable consideration from the same vendor, his heirs or devisees, of the same real property or any portion thereof whose conveyance is first duly recorded. An instrument is deemed recorded the minute it is filed for record.

[1927 c 278 § 2; RRS § 10596-2. Prior: 1897 c 5 § 1; Code 1881 § 2314; 1877 p 312 § 4; 1873 p 465 § 4; 1863 p 430 § 4; 1860 p 299 § 4; 1858 p 28 § 1; 1854 p 403 § 4.]

Notes:RCW 65.08.070 applicable to rents and profits of real property: RCW 7.28.230.