• § 44-2-1 - Where and When Deeds Recorded; Priority As to Subsequent Deeds Taken Without Notice From Same Vendor
  Every deed conveying lands shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county where the land is...
• § 44-2-2 - Duty of Clerk to Record Certain Transaction Affecting Real Estate and Personal Property; Priority or Recorded Instruments; Effect of Recording on Rights Between Parties to Instruments
  (a)(1) The clerk of the superior court shall file, index on a computer program designed for such purpose, and permanently record, in the manner...
• § 44-2-3 - Voluntary Deeds or Conveyances of Land; Effect of Recording
  Every unrecorded voluntary deed or conveyance of land made by any person shall be void as against subsequent bona fide purchasers for value without...
• § 44-2-4 - Protection of Good Faith Purchases and Liens Without Notice Against Unrecorded Liens or Conveyances
  (a) All innocent persons, firms, or corporations acting in good faith and without actual notice which purchase real or personal property for value or...
• § 44-2-5 - Recording Execution and Deed After Sheriff's Sale
  A purchaser at a sheriff's sale may have the execution under which the property was sold recorded with his or her deed together with...
• § 44-2-6 - Recording Bond for Title, Contracts, Transfers, and Assignments; Priority As to Subsequent Deeds Taken Without Notice From Same Vendor
  Every bond for title, bond to reconvey realty, contract to sell or convey realty or any interest therein, and any and all transfers or...
• § 44-2-7 - Recording of Surrender or Satisfaction of Bond for Title
  When any bond for title has been recorded and is subsequently surrendered or satisfied, such surrender or satisfaction may be entered of record by...
• § 44-2-8 - Recording of Options to Purchase Land and Assignments of Such Options; Effect As Notice
  When executed with the formality prescribed for the execution of deeds to land, options to purchase land or any interest in land and assignments...
• § 44-2-9 - Recording Leases, Usufructs, and Assignments Thereof; Effect As Notice
  When executed with the formality prescribed for the execution of deeds to land, leases or usufructs of land or of any interest in land...
• § 44-2-10 - Recording Deeds and Bills of Sale to Personalty; Effect As Notice
  Absolute deeds and bills of sale to personalty may be recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county...
• § 44-2-11 - Recording Copy of Instrument Recorded in Other Counties in Which Part of Affected Land is Located in Cases Where Original Lost or Destroyed
  A copy from the registry of any instrument conveying or affecting land in any county of this state which is recorded in the office...
• § 44-2-12 - Rerecording Lost or Destroyed Deeds and Other Instruments; Validity
  When the record of any deed or other recorded instrument or the certificate of record is lost or destroyed, the clerk of the superior...
• § 44-2-13 - Rerecording Instruments Upon Creation of New County or Change in County Lines; Effect on Validity of Original Record
  (a) When the creation of a new county or a change in county lines causes land to be included in a different county than...
• § 44-2-14 - Requirements for Recordation
  (a) Except for documents electronically filed as provided for in Chapter 12 of Title 10, and in other Code sections in this part, before...
• § 44-2-15 - Officers Authorized to Attest Registrable Instruments
  Any of the instruments enumerated in Code Section 44-2-14 may be attested by a judge of a court of record, including a judge of...
• § 44-2-16 - Effect of Acknowledgment Subsequent to Execution
  If subsequent to its execution a recordable instrument is acknowledged in the presence of any of the officers referred to in Code Section 44-2-15,...
• § 44-2-17 - Validity of Attestation by a State or County Officer Who Appears to Have No Jurisdiction to Attest the Instrument
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term "state" means any one of the states of the United States and any territories and...
• § 44-2-18 - Recording Deed Upon Affidavit of Subscribing Witness; Effect of Substantial Compliance
  If a deed is neither attested by nor acknowledged before one of the officers named in Code Section 44-2-15, it may be recorded upon...
• § 44-2-19 - Recording Deed on Affidavit of Third Person
  If the subscribing witness or witnesses are dead, are insane, have moved outside the state, or are otherwise incapacitated to make the affidavit provided...
• § 44-2-20 - Recorded Affidavits Relating to Land As Notice of Facts Cited Therein; Filing and Recording
  (a) Recorded affidavits shall be notice of the facts therein recited, whether taken at the time of a conveyance of land or not, where...
• § 44-2-21 - Recording Instrument Executed Out of State; Attestation and Acknowledgment; Validity of Attestation by Officer Who Appears to Have No Jurisdiction to Attest the Instrument
  (a) To authorize the recording of a deed to realty or personalty executed outside this state, the deed must be attested by or acknowledged...
• § 44-2-22 - Legal Effect of Good Record Title for 40 Years
  A prima-facie case shall be made out in actions respecting title to land upon showing good record title for a period of 40 years,...
• § 44-2-23 - When Deed Serves As Evidence; Effect of Affidavit Alleging Forgery
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 78 /HB 24, effective January 1, 2013.
• § 44-2-24 - Withdrawal of Affidavit of Forgery Upon Loss of Deed by Affiant
  Where an affidavit of forgery has been filed to the plaintiff's deed, and the deed has been turned over to the defendant or his...
• § 44-2-25 - Recording Techniques; Photostatic Copies of Plats
  All decrees, deeds, mortgages, or other instruments affecting the title to land shall be recorded by the clerk of the superior court by the...
• § 44-2-26 - Recording of Plat or Copy of Plat -- When and Where Authorized; Duty of Clerk
  The owner of real property or of any interest therein or any holder of a lien thereon may have a plat of the property...
• § 44-2-27 - Recording of Plat or Copy of Plat -- When Deemed Recorded
  When any plat or any blueprint, tracing, photostatic copy, or other copy of the plat is securely pasted or fastened in the book provided...
• § 44-2-28 - Recording of Plat or Copy of Plat -- Incorporation by Reference
  When any deed, mortgage, or other instrument conveying an interest in or creating a lien on real property refers to the boundaries, metes, courses,...
• § 44-2-29 - Recording of Plat or Copy of Plat -- Ratification of Record Made Prior to Statutory Authorization; Effect of Incorporation by Reference of Plat Prior to Authorization
  Any plats or any blueprints, tracings, photostatic copies, or other copies of plats recorded prior to March 29, 1937, in the manner described in...
• § 44-2-30 - Filing and Recording of Notice of Settlement
  (a) Any party, or his or her legal representative, to a settlement which will convey legal or equitable title to real estate or any...

Last modified: October 14, 2016