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Home » US Law » 2021 Tennessee Code » Title 66 - Property » Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration

§ 66-26-101. Effect of Instruments With or Without Registration

All of the instruments mentioned in § 66-24-101 shall have effect between the parties to the same, and their heirs and representatives, without registration; but as to other persons, not having actual notice of them, only from the noting thereof for registration on the books of the register, unless otherwise expressly provided. Code 1858, § […]

§ 66-26-102. Notice to All the World

All of the instruments registered pursuant to § 66-24-101 shall be notice to all the world from the time they are noted for registration, as prescribed in § 8-13-108; and shall take effect from such time. Code 1858, § 2073 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, §§ 6, 12; 1841-1842, ch. 12, § 2); Shan., § […]

§ 66-26-105. Priority of Registered Instruments

Any instruments first registered or noted for registration shall have preference over one of earlier date, but noted for registration afterwards; unless it is proved in a court of equity, according to the rules of the court, that the party claiming under the subsequent instrument had full notice of the previous instrument. Code 1858, § […]

§ 66-26-106. Presumption as to Validity of Registration After Twenty Years

Whenever a deed has been registered twenty (20) years or more, the same shall be presumed to have been properly acknowledged or proved, though the certificate of acknowledgement or probate has not been transferred to the registers book, and without regard to the form of the certificate; provided, that an acknowledgment to an instrument which […]

§ 66-26-107. Presumption as to Subscription by Grantor After Thirty Years

Where a deed has been registered more than thirty (30) years, but the register has failed to register the name of the grantor or bargainor, it shall be presumed that the name of the grantor or bargainor was subscribed to the deed, and the registration shall be good; and in proving the time when a […]

§ 66-26-109. Presumption as to Powers of Attorney After Twenty Years

When a power or powers of attorney authorizing the sale or conveyance of real estate have been registered, whether with or without proper probate or acknowledgment, or any probate or acknowledgment at all, twenty (20) years or more in the register’s office of the county where the real estate is situated, or, if the land […]

§ 66-26-111. Proof of Instruments Registered Before 1839

Every instrument authorized by law to be registered and proved or acknowledged, and registered prior to October 16, 1839, may be read in evidence: Although the certificate only states that the deed was duly proved, without naming the subscribing witnesses by whom it was so proved; and in such case, the court shall presume that […]

§ 66-26-112. Erroneous Recital as to County Where Land Located

When a grant from the state for lands recites that the lands so granted are situated in one (1) county when they are in a different county, the grant shall be as valid as if the locality thereof were truly recited in the grant; and any subsequent conveyances of the lands in which they are […]

§ 66-26-113. Omission of Words From Certificate

The unintentional omission by the clerk or other officer of any words in a certificate of an acknowledgment, or probate of any deed or other instrument, shall in nowise vitiate the validity of the deed, or other instrument or the acknowledgement or probate thereof, but the same shall be good and valid to all intents […]

§ 66-26-114. Correction of Omission

If the omission is a matter of substance, the clerk or other officer, on application of either party interested, may correct such mistake or omission of words in such certificate on any such deed or other instrument. Code 1858, § 2081 (deriv. Acts 1847-1848, ch. 119, § 1); Shan., § 3758; Code 1932, § 7670; […]

§ 66-26-115. Registration of Correction

The register shall record the correction in the proper book of the register’s office, and make a reference to the same on the margin opposite the original registry of the certificate. Code 1858, § 2083 (deriv. Acts 1847-1848, ch. 119, § 3); Shan., § 3760; Code 1932, § 7671; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2615.