2005 Rhode Island Code - § 33-7-20 — Order approving foreign will – Effect on real estate titles.

    If, at the hearing, no sufficient cause is shown to the contrary, the court may order the copy to be placed on file and recorded; provided, however, that, as to real estate in towns other than that in which the copy is filed and recorded, the title shall not pass, for the purposes of conveyance by the devisee, until a certified copy is recorded in the records of land evidence in any other town or city in which any real estate is situated; and provided, further, that when any copy is duly filed and recorded as aforesaid, title to lands devised by the will shall relate back to the death of the testator.