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2025 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 33: PROPERTY
Chapter 7: CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE
Subchapter 2: RECORDING
33 §202. Failure to record, effect of
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33 ME Rev Stat § 202 (2025)
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§202. Failure to record, effect of
A deed purporting to convey an absolute estate in land cannot be defeated by an instrument intended as a defeasance, as against any other person than the maker, his heirs and devisees, unless such instrument is recorded in the registry where the deed is recorded.
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