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.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 21. MORTGAGES ON REAL ESTATE
§ 2101. Form of mortgage; effect [For application of section, see 80 Del. Laws, c. 280, § 2].
§ 2102. Minor's bond, obligation or mortgage.
§ 2103. Effect of mortgage executed by trustee for mentally ill spouse.
§ 2104. Purchase money mortgage of married woman; liability of husband.
§ 2105. Purchase money mortgage by married woman.
§ 2106. Priority of mortgage from time of recording.
§ 2107. Priority of mortgages recorded at same time.
§ 2108. Priority of purchase money mortgages.
§ 2109. Assignment of mortgages.
§ 2110. Effect of release of part of mortgaged premises; acknowledgment and recording.
§ 2111. Satisfaction of mortgages; penalty; enforcement in Superior Court.
§ 2113. Effect of entry of satisfaction.
§ 2114. Damages for nonentry of satisfaction.
§ 2115. Procedure to compel entry of satisfaction of mortgage or judgment.
§ 2116. Reconveyance upon satisfaction or performance.
§ 2119. Insurance requirements for mortgages.
§ 2120. Authorization to satisfy mortgage.
§ 2122. Procedure to strike an entry of satisfaction or other indication of a mortgage satisfaction.