Section 35-4-59

Conveyance operative as record from date of delivery; receipt.

The conveyance or other instrument is operative as a record from the day of the delivery to the judge; and anyone delivering a conveyance or other instrument for registration may require a receipt for same, describing it by date, parties thereto and property conveyed or described.

(Code 1852, §1270; Code 1867, §1539; Code 1876, §2149; Code 1886, §1793; Code 1896, §987; Code 1907, §3369; Code 1923, §6856; Code 1940, T. 47, §98.)