Kalange v. Rencher

How courts have described this case

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• holding actual knowledge of an existing consensual lien eliminates recordation requirement
• “[P]ossession by other than the grantee of record is constructive notice to a subsequent purchaser of the claim of the person in possession.”
• The recording statute “compels the recording of instruments affecting title, for the ultimate purpose of permitting purchasers to rely upon the record title” by giving notice to potential buyers and “protection against bona fide third parties who may be dealing in the same property”.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).