2021 Delaware Code
Title 25 - Property
Chapter 21. Mortgages on Real Estate
§ 2106. Priority of mortgage from time of recording.

Universal Citation: 25 DE Code § 2106. (2021)
§ 2106. Priority of mortgage from time of recording.

A mortgage, or a conveyance in the nature of a mortgage, of lands or tenements shall have priority according to the time of recording it in the proper office, without respect to the time of its being sealed and delivered, and shall be a lien from the time of recording it and not before.

Code 1852, § 1632;  Code 1915, § 3222;  Code 1935, § 3684;  25 Del. C. 1953, § 2106; 
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