2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 47 - Property Law
Section 1 Conveyances and General Provisions
Section 47-1-46 Real estate descriptions by reference to recorded instruments.

Any deed, mortgage, pleading in court or other instrument affecting real estate may describe such real estate by reference to the description thereof contained in or shown by one or more maps, plats, descriptions, deeds, mortgages or other instruments of record in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the affected real estate is located, and such instrument containing such description or descriptions by reference shall be legally sufficient for all purposes to the same extent as if the description or descriptions referred to therein had been fully set forth therein; provided, that the instrument containing any such description by reference must show the time and place of filing or recordation of the instrument containing the description referred to, or other similar information, so that said instrument containing the description referred to can be located and identified.