Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)
25 Del. C. § 153
Priority of deed concerning lands or tenements
Official textdelcode.delaware.gov
A deed concerning lands or tenements shall have priority from the time that it is recorded in the proper office without respect to the time that it was signed, sealed and delivered.
Amendment history
16 Del. Laws, c. 520, § 2; 17 Del. Laws, c. 213, § 2; 41 Del. Laws, c. 190, § 1; 56 Del. Laws, c. 318.
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In this title (40 sections)
- 25-108 · Deeds and other instruments executed by the Home Owners’ Loan…
- 25-109 · Defeasance or contract for reconveyance; recording;…
- 25-110 · Certificates of notaries public; validity
- 25-121 · Form of deed; legal effect; other forms as valid
- 25-122 · Acknowledgment and proof of deeds
- 25-123 · Certification of acknowledgment or proof
- 25-124 · Acknowledgment and execution of deed by married woman deserted…
- 25-125 · Place for taking acknowledgment or proof
- 25-126 · Certification of acknowledgments by justices of the peace; form
- 25-127 · Acknowledgment of corporate deeds or other instruments
- 25-128 · Certification of acknowledgments by Mayor of Wilmington; fee
- 25-129 · Acknowledgment or proof outside State
- 25-130 · Notarial acts by members of the armed forces
- 25-131 · Validation of certain instruments as deeds
- 25-132 · Validity of legal instruments having defective…
- 25-133 · Address of grantee on deed
- 25-134 · Authentication and recognition of acknowledgments
- 25-135 · Tax ditch, tax lagoon, right-of-way, or assessment
- 25-151 · Recording of deeds and letters of attorney
- 25-152 · Recording as affecting lands in county of recording
- 25-153 · Priority of deed concerning lands or tenements
- 25-154 · Deeds and letters of attorney; recording at any time
- 25-155 · Acknowledgment or proof as evidence of recording; private…
- 25-156 · Recording on date of sealing and delivery
- 25-157 · Potter charity leases
- 25-158 · Enforceability of certain leases and documents pertaining to…
- 25-171 · Acknowledgment or proof
- 25-172 · Acknowledgment of deed after recording letter of attorney
- 25-173 · Power of married woman to make letter
- 25-174 · Persons serving with armed forces
- 25-180 · Short title
- 25-181 · Definitions in this subchapter
- 25-182 · Validity of electronic documents
- 25-183 · Recording of documents
- 25-184 · Uniform standards
- 25-201 · Short title
- 25-202 · Definitions
- 25-203 · Applicability
- 25-204 · Nonexclusivity
- 25-205 · Transfer on death deed authorized