RACE-NOTICE STATUTE

race-notice statute.A recording law providing that the person who records first, without notice
of prior unrecorded claims, has priority. • About half the states have race-notice statutes. — Also
termed race-notice act; notice-race statute. Cf. RACE STATUTE; NOTICE STATUTE. [Cases:
Vendor and Purchaser 231(11). C.J.S. Vendor and Purchaser § 502.] [Blacks Law 8th]