Texas Property Code Title 3, Chapter 12 - Recording Of Instruments

• Texas Section 12.001 - Instruments Concerning Property
  (a) An instrument concerning real or personal property may be recorded if it has been acknowledged, sworn to with a proper jurat, or proved according...
• Texas Section 12.0011 - Instruments Concerning Property: Original Signature Required For Certain Instruments
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "paper document" means a document received by a county clerk in a form that is not electronic. (b)...
• Texas Section 12.0012 - Instruments Concerning Real Property Subject To A Foreclosure Sale
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 12.0011(b), the following documents received by the county clerk in the manner provided by Subsection (b) shall be recorded by the clerk...
• Texas Section 12.002 - Subdivision Plat; Penalty
  (a) The county clerk or a deputy of the clerk with whom a plat or replat of a subdivision of real property is filed for...
• Texas Section 12.003 - Instrument In General Land Office Or Archives
  (a) If written evidence of title to land has been filed according to law in the General Land Office or is in the public archives,...
• Texas Section 12.004 - Foreign Deed
  If written evidence of title to land has been filed outside the county in which the land is located or outside the state, a copy...
• Texas Section 12.005 - Partition
  (a) A court order partitioning or allowing recovery of title to land must be recorded with the county clerk of the county in which the...
• Texas Section 12.006 - Grant From Government
  A grant from this state or the United States that is executed and authenticated under the law in effect at the time the grant is...
• Texas Section 12.007 - Lis Pendens
  (a) After the plaintiff's statement in an eminent domain proceeding is filed or during the pendency of an action involving title to real property, the...
• Texas Section 12.0071 - Motion To Expunge Lis Pendens
  (a) A party to an action in connection with which a notice of lis pendens has been filed may: (1) apply to the court to...
• Texas Section 12.008 - Cancellation Of Lis Pendens
  (a) On the motion of a party or other person interested in the result of or in property affected by a proceeding in which a...
• Texas Section 12.009 - Mortgage Or Deed Of Trust Master Form
  (a) A master form of a mortgage or deed of trust may be recorded in any county without acknowledgement or proof. The master form must...
• Texas Section 12.011 - Certificate Of Redemption
  An instrument issued by the United States that redeems or evidences redemption of real property from a judicial sale or from a nonjudicial sale under...
• Texas Section 12.012 - Attachment
  (a) If an officer files a writ of attachment on real property with a county clerk, the clerk shall record the name of each plaintiff...
• Texas Section 12.013 - Judgment
  A judgment of a court may be recorded if: (1) the judgment is of a court: (A) expressly created or established under the constitution or...
• Texas Section 12.014 - Transfer Of Judgment Or Cause Of Action
  (a) A judgment or part of a judgment of a court of record or an interest in a cause of action on which suit has...
• Texas Section 12.015 - Judgment In Justice Court
  (a) On the application of a party interested in land that has been sold under an execution issued by a justice court, the justice of...
• Texas Section 12.016 - Power Of Attorney
  A power of attorney may be recorded. Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3495, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.
• Texas Section 12.017 - Title Insurance Company Affidavit As Release Of Lien; Civil Penalty
  (a) In this section: (1) "Mortgage" means a deed of trust or other contract lien on an interest in real property. (2) "Mortgagee" means: (A)...
• Texas Section 12.018 - Transfer By Receiver Or Conservator Of Failed Depository Institution
  If a bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, or other depository institution is placed in receivership or conservatorship by a state or federal agency,...

Last modified: September 28, 2016