1997 Minnesota Statutes

     386.31 Consecutive numbering. 

    Each county recorder shall endorse plainly upon each 
 instrument received for record or filing as soon as received a 
 number consecutive to the number affixed to the instrument next 
 previously received and enter such number as a part of the entry 
 relating to such instrument in all the indexes kept in the 
 office and on the margin of the record of the instrument, and 
 such number shall be prima facie evidence of priority of 
 registration.  If more than one instrument shall be received at 
 the same time, by mail or other like enclosure, the recorder 
 shall affix such number in the order directed by the sender; if 
 no direction be given, then in the order in which the 
 instruments actually come to the recorder's hand in opening the 
 enclosures. 

    HIST: (895) RL s 538; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1983 c 99 s 1; 1986 c 
 444