Maine Statutes
§ 33 §202 — Failure to record, effect of
A deed purporting to convey an absolute estate in land cannot be defeated by an instrument intended as a defeasance, as against any other person than the maker, his heirs and devisees, unless such instrument is recorded in the registry where the deed is recorded.
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Nearby Sections
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§ 33 §201
Priority of recording§ 33 §201-A
Conditions of actual notice§ 33 §201-B
Notice; construction of provisions§ 33 §202
Failure to record, effect of§ 33 §203
Need for acknowledgment§ 33 §204
Deed lost before recording§ 33 §2051
Short title§ 33 §2052
Definitions§ 33 §2053
Inapplicability to foreign transaction§ 33 §2054
Rulemaking§ 33 §206
Recording by compulsion§ 33 §2061
When property presumed abandoned