California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from T & O Mobile Homes, Inc. v. United California Bank, 220 Cal.Rptr. 627, 40 Cal.3d 441, 709 P.2d 430 (Cal. 1985):
6 The applicable statutes there require not only that the instrument be filed with the recorder, but that, to give constructive notice, it be "recorded as prescribed by law." (See Civ.Code, 1170, 1213; Cady v. Purser (1901) 131 Cal. 552, 63 P. 844.) No comparable statute applies to this case.
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