Tex. Prop. Code § 12.003 · Chapter 12. RECORDING OF INSTRUMENTS
INSTRUMENT IN GENERAL LAND OFFICE OR ARCHIVES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If written evidence of title to land has been filed according to law in the General Land Office or is in the public archives, a copy of the written evidence may be recorded if:
(1) the original was properly executed under the law in effect at the time of execution; and
(2) the copy is certified by the officer having custody of the original and attested with the seal of the General Land Office.
(b) A court may not admit a title to land that was filed in the General Land Office as evidence of superior title against a location or survey of the same land that was made under a valid land warrant or certificate prior to the filing of the title in the General Land Office unless prior to the location or survey:
(1) the older title had been recorded with the county clerk of the county in which the land is located; or
(2) the person who had the location or survey made had actual notice of the older title.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3490, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.12.htm
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