THE OPERATION OF THE RECORDING ACTS

Authors

Ralph W. Aigler, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

As between successive transfers of land by the same transferor purporting to create legal interests it was the almost invariable rule of the common law that priority in right was determined by priority in time. This followed naturally from the fact that after A had conveyed to B there was no interest left in A which he could transfer to C; first in time was first in right because there was nothing left for the second transferee. Notice and lack of notice were wholly immaterial.

Recommended Citation

Ralph W. Aigler, THE OPERATION OF THE RECORDING ACTS, 22 Mich. L. Rev. 405 (1924).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol22/iss5/2