Any deed conveying real property in the District, or interest therein, or declaring or limiting any use or trust thereof, executed and acknowledged and certified as provided in §§ 42-602, 42-101, and 42-306, and Chapter 12A of Title 1, and delivered to the person in whose favor the same is executed shall be held to take effect from the date of the delivery; except, that as to creditors and subsequent bona fide purchasers and mortgagees without notice of said deed, and others interested in the property, it shall only take effect from the time of its delivery to the Recorder of Deeds for record.
(Apr. 29, 1878, 20 Stat. 39, ch. 69; Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1268, ch. 854, § 499; June 30, 1902, 32 Stat. 531, ch. 1329; Sept. 21, 2022, D.C. Law 24-178, § 3(a), 69 DCR 009927.)
1981 Ed., § 45-801.
1973 Ed., § 45-501.
This section is referenced in § 42-2002.
Horizontal property regimes, record defined, see § 42-2002.
Recording instrument by one who has no color of title, penalties, see § 22-1402.
Sections 42-121 to 42-123, referred to in this section, were repealed March 6, 1991, by § 12(a) of D.C. Law 8-205.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Chapter 4 - Deed Effective and Recordation Dates
§ 42–401. Effective date of deeds; exception
§ 42–402. Defective grants recorded before April 27, 1994
§ 42–404. Failures in formal requisites of an instrument
§ 42–405. Notice of address and name change
§ 42–406. First recorded deed preferred
§ 42–407. Instrument not properly executed or acknowledged not recordable
§ 42–408. Record of conveyance by infant or infant trustee as evidence