to record

TO RECORD, the act of making a record. 
     2. Sometimes questions arise as to when the act of recording is 
complete, as in the following case. A deed of real estate was acknowledged 
before the register of deeds and handed to him to be recorded, and at the 
same instant a creditor of the grantor attached the real estate; in this 
case it was held the act of recording was incomplete without a certificate 
of the acknowledgment, and wanting that, the attaching creditor had the 
preference. 10 Pick. Rep. 72. 
     3. The fact of an instrument being recorded is held to operate as a 
constructive notice upon all subsequent purchasers of any estate, legal or 
equitable, in the same property. 1 John. Ch. R. 394. 
     4. But all conveyances and deeds which may be de facto recorded, are 
not to be considered as giving notice; in order to have this effect the 
instruments must be such as are authorized to be recorded, and the registry 
must have been made in compliance with the law, otherwise the registry is to 
be treated as a mere nullity, and it will not affect a subsequent purchaser 
or encumbrancer unless he has such actual notice as would amount to a fraud. 
2 Sell. & Lef. 68; 1 Sch. & Lef. 157; 4 Wheat. R. 466; 1 Binn. R. 40; 1 
John. Ch. R. 300; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 403, 404; 5 Greenl. 272.