Every conveyance, covenant, agreement, bond, mortgage, and deed of trust shall take effect, as to all creditors and subsequent purchasers for a valuable consideration without notice, only from the time when delivered to the clerk to be recorded; and no conveyance, covenant, agreement, bond, mortgage, or deed of trust which is unrecorded or has not been filed for record, shall take precedence over any similar instrument affecting the same property which may be of record, to the end that with reference to all instruments which may be filed for record under this section, the priority thereof shall be governed by the priority in time of the filing of the several instruments, in the absence of actual notice.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 89 - Real and Personal Property
Chapter 5 - Recording of Instruments
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 89-5-1. Recording instruments; conveyances, acknowledgment, priority
§ 89-5-3. Conveyances, mortgages; void if not lodged for record
§ 89-5-7. Written contracts in relation to land recordable
§ 89-5-9. Copies of certain records may be recorded
§ 89-5-11. Patents issued by United States or this state recordable
§ 89-5-15. Transfer of record; debt to be noted on record
§ 89-5-17. Assignments of indebtedness to be marked on record
§ 89-5-19. When a lien appears by the record to be barred, it ceases
§ 89-5-23. Oil, gas, and mineral leases; cancellation of record upon expiration
§ 89-5-27. Receipt for instruments delivered to chancery clerk for recording
§ 89-5-29. Mortgages and deeds of trust on land; how recorded
§ 89-5-35. How certain conveyances indexed
§ 89-5-39. Books of record not to be removed
§ 89-5-41. Records in counties divided into two districts