California Civil Code ARTICLE 4 - Effect of Recording, or the Want Thereof

• Section 1213.
  Every conveyance of real property or an estate for years therein acknowledged or proved and certified and recorded as prescribed by law from the time...
• Section 1214.
  Every conveyance of real property or an estate for years therein, other than a lease for a term not exceeding one year, is void as...
• Section 1215.
  The term “conveyance,” as used in Sections 1213 and 1214, embraces every instrument in writing by which any estate or interest in real property is...
• Section 1216.
  No power contained in an instrument to convey or execute instruments affecting real property which has been recorded is revoked by any act of the...
• Section 1217.
  An unrecorded instrument is valid as between the parties thereto and those who have notice thereof.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1218.
  A certified copy of an instrument affecting the title to real property, once recorded, or a certified copy of the record of such instrument may...
• Section 1219.
  Oil and gas leases may be acknowledged or proved, certified and recorded in like manner and with like effect, as grants of real property. However,...
• Section 1220.
  Contracts for the purchase or sale of standing timber or trees, for severance or otherwise, and all instruments in writing by which any estate or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018