Property Ownership
Under Delaware's recording statutes, which principle protects a bona fide purchaser for value who records first?
ARace-notice statute✓ Correct
BPure notice statute
CPure race statute
DMarketable title act
Explanation
Delaware follows a race-notice recording statute. A subsequent purchaser for value who records first and does so without notice of the prior unrecorded conveyance takes priority over the earlier unrecorded grantee.
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