Recorder of Deeds

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Recorder of deeds is a government office tasked with maintaining maintaining records and documents, especially records relating to real estate ownership that provide persons other than the owner of a property with real rights over that property. Offices with similar duties (varying by jurisdiction) include registrar general, register of deeds, registrar of deeds, registrar of titles. The office of such an official may be referred to as the deeds registry or deeds office. In the United States, the recorder of deeds is often an elected county office and is called the county recorder. In some U.S. states, the functions of a recorder of deeds are a responsibility of the county clerk (or the county's clerk of court), and the official may be called a clerk-recorder or recorder-clerk.