382.080 Recording of conveyance for longer than five years and of marriage agreement

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382.080 Recording of conveyance for longer than five years and of marriage

agreement.

(1) No deed conveying any title to or interest in real property, or lease of oil, gas, coal

or mineral right and privilege, for a longer time than five (5) years, nor any

agreement in consideration of marriage, shall be good against a purchaser for a

valuable consideration without notice thereof, or any creditor, unless the deed is

acknowledged by the party who executes it, or is proved and lodged for record in

the proper office, as prescribed by law.

(2) The provisions of this section shall apply with like protection to the creditor of, or

innocent purchaser from, the heir or devisee of the grantor.

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