Archer v. Kelley

Duckworth, Justice.

The recording statutes of this State clearly define the rights of a grantee under an unrecorded security deed, as related to a bona fide purchaser for value and without notice. The Code, § 29-401, declares: “Every deed conveying lands shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county where the land lies. The record may be made at any time, but such deed loses its priority over a subsequent recorded deed from the same vendor, taken without notice of the existence of the first.” To the same effect, see Dix v. Wilkinson, 149 Ga. 103 (99 S. E.…