Editing Recorder of deeds (section)

==United States: Recorders of Deeds==<!-- This section is linked from [[Hennepin County, Minnesota]] -->
In the U.S., most recorders of deeds are elected officials who serve the area of a county or equivalent jurisdiction.

In some states, the recorder of deeds may also act as a public posting place for documents that are not directly related to [[estates in land]], such as corporate [[charter]]s, [[military discharge]]s, [[Uniform Commercial Code]] records, applications for marriage licenses, and [[judgment (law)|judgments]].

Deeds in a few states of the U.S. are maintained under the [[Torrens title]] system or some limited implementation of it. (For example: [[Minnesota]], some property in [[Massachusetts]], [[Colorado]], [[Hawaii]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[North Carolina]], [[Ohio]], and [[Washington (state)|Washington]].)

Other U.S. states maintain their deeds under the [[common law]] system of [[Recording (real estate)|record title]]. Typically, they are filed in chronological order with a grantor/grantee index.