Okla. Stat. tit. 46, § 46-11
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Defeasance must be recorded
Official statutory text
When a grant of real property purports to be an absolute
conveyance, but is intended to be defeasible on the performance of
certain conditions, such grant is not defeated or affected as
against any person other than the grantee or his heirs or devisees
or persons having actual notice, unless an instrument of defeasance,
duly executed and acknowledged, shall have been recorded in the
office of the register of deeds of the county where the property is
situated.
R.L. 1910, § 4021.
conveyance, but is intended to be defeasible on the performance of
certain conditions, such grant is not defeated or affected as
against any person other than the grantee or his heirs or devisees
or persons having actual notice, unless an instrument of defeasance,
duly executed and acknowledged, shall have been recorded in the
office of the register of deeds of the county where the property is
situated.
R.L. 1910, § 4021.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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