Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

recording act.

A law that establishes the requirements for recording a deed or other property interest and the standards for determining priorities between persons claiming interests in the same property (usu. real property). ( Recording acts - the three main types of which are the notice statute, the race statute, and the race-notice statute - are designed to protect bona fide purchasers from earlier unrecorded interests. - Also termed recording statute. See NOTICE STATUTE; RACE STATUTE; RACE-NOTICE STATUTE.