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Home » US Law » 2021 New Mexico Statutes » Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths » Article 9 - Records Affecting Real Property

Section 14-9-1 – Instruments affecting real estate; recording.

All deeds, mortgages, leases of an initial term plus option terms in excess of five years, or memoranda of the material terms of such leases, assignments or amendments to such leases, leasehold mortgages, United States patents and other writings affecting the title to real estate shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk […]

Section 14-9-2 – [Constructive notice of contents.]

Such records shall be notice to all the world of the existence and contents of the instruments so recorded from the time of recording. History: Laws 1886-1887, ch. 10, § 2; C.L. 1897, § 3954; Code 1915, § 4787; C.S. 1929, § 118-109; 1941 Comp., § 13-202; 1953 Comp., § 71-2-2. ANNOTATIONS Bracketed material. — […]

Section 14-9-3 – Unrecorded instruments; effect.

No deed, mortgage or other instrument in writing not recorded in accordance with Section 14-9-1 NMSA 1978 shall affect the title or rights to, in any real estate, of any purchaser, mortgagee in good faith or judgment lien creditor, without knowledge of the existence of such unrecorded instruments. Possession alone based on an unrecorded executory […]

Section 14-9-4 – Filing for record; effect; reception book.

The time of the recording of an instrument shall be the time of its deposit in the office of the county clerk and his entry thereof in the reception book as herein provided. It shall be the duty of every county clerk immediately on the receipt for record of any deed, mortgage or other writing […]

Section 14-9-5 – Repealed.

ANNOTATIONS Repeals. — Laws 1987, ch. 218, § 1 repealed 14-9-5 NMSA 1978, as enacted by Laws 1886-1887, ch. 10, § 5, relating to deed and mortgage records, effective June 19, 1987.

Section 14-9-6 – [Wills not affected.]

None of the provisions of this chapter shall be so construed as to extend to last wills and testaments. History: Laws 1851-1852, p. 376; C.L. 1865, ch. 44, § 23; C.L. 1884, § 2770; C.L. 1897, § 3967; Code 1915, § 4794; C.S. 1929, § 118-118; 1941 Comp., § 13-208; 1953 Comp., § 71-2-8. ANNOTATIONS […]

Section 14-9-7 – Conveyances to state and public corporations; recording; filing in lieu of recording; maximum fee.

A. The state, the public boards and commissions thereof, municipalities, districts and subdivisions of the state, including conservancy and irrigation districts, shall be entitled to have instruments affecting real estate which have been made to them as grantees or vendees, including rights-of-way for roads, easements or other instruments affecting real estate, to be duly recorded […]

Section 14-9-8 – [Lost patent; recording certified copy; effect.]

Any person or persons who have acquired and hold any real estate by purchase or otherwise, and have lost or are unable to procure the original patent issued by the United States for such real estate, and such patent never having been recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein such […]