It being Valentine’s Day, I thought I share something a bit different. In the way back yonder, how real property was exchanged, was done in a variety of ways. During the late 1890s and through the early 1900s, transactions between spouses carried the clause “in consideration of love and affection,” to deed real property, which in most instances was the title to the family residence, as seen in the illustration above.
There is the case, of property being sold for one-dollar. That signals a red flag to indicate that a mortgage was recorded. For years, deeds and mortgages were recorded in separate volumes. It was not until the 1920s, that the transition began to consolidate all recordings into one volume, that we know today as Official Records.