Tex. Prop. Code § 12.005 · Chapter 12. RECORDING OF INSTRUMENTS
PARTITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A court order partitioning or allowing recovery of title to land must be recorded with the county clerk of the county in which the land is located in order to be admitted as evidence to support a right claimed under the order.
(b) A record of an order is sufficient under this section if it consists of a brief statement by the clerk of the court that made the order, signed and sealed by the clerk, that includes:
(1) the identity of the case in which the partition or judgment was made;
(2) the date of the case;
(3) the names of the parties to the case;
(4) a description of the land involved that is located in the county of the recording; and
(5) the name of the party to whom the land is decreed.
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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- 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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