2025 Texas Statutes
Property Code
Title 3 - Public Records
Chapter 12 - Recording of Instruments
Section 12.004. Foreign Deed

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TX Prop § 12.004 (2025)
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Sec. 12.004. FOREIGN DEED. If written evidence of title to land has been filed outside the county in which the land is located or outside the state, a copy of the written evidence may be recorded in the county in which the land is located if:

(1) the original was properly executed and recorded under the law governing the recording; and

(2) the copy is certified by the officer having legal custody of the original.

Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3490, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.

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