Tex. Prop. Code § 12.004 · Chapter 12. RECORDING OF INSTRUMENTS
FOREIGN DEED.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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.
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
- Text hash
- sha256 e2b1b931bb4e8def99232d52ac50d16a4f546237bac631d9b989e291d0a2a5dd
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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