Deed

===Wild deeds===
A deed that is recorded, but is not connected to the chain of title of the property, is called a '''wild deed'''. A wild deed does not provide constructive notice to later purchasers of the property, because subsequent bona fide purchasers cannot reasonably be expected to locate the deed while investigating the chain of title to the property. Haupt has stated that
<blockquote>Because title searching relies on the grantor/grantee indexes, it's possible that a deed won't be discovered even though it was recorded. "Example: Atwood sells his land to Burns, but Burns does not record his deed. Burns later sells the land to Cooper, and Cooper records her deed. But because the previous deed (the deed from Atwood to Burns) was not recorded, Cooper's deed is outside the chain of title. In a title search, someone looking up Atwood's name in the grantor index would find no indication that Atwood conveyed the property, and nothing would lead the searcher to Cooper's deed." A deed that is outside the chain of title is called a wild deed. The general rule is that a subsequent purchaser is not held to have constructive notice of a wild deed. In the example, Cooper's title is unprotected against subsequent good faith purchasers. Suppose Atwood were to fraudulently sell the same property to another person, Dunn. A court would rule that Dunn has good title to the property, not Cooper.<ref>{{cite book|first=Kathryn J. |last=Haupt|title=Washington Real Estate Fundamentals|publisher=Rockwell Publishing|year= 2007|page= 54|isbn= 978-1-887051-41-5}}
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A wild deed has been described as a deed "executed by a stranger to the record title hung out in the air like Mahomet's coffin".<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Poladian v. Johnson |vol= 85|reporter=So. 2d |opinion=140 |pinpoint= 141 |court= [[Supreme Court of Florida]] |date=1955}}</ref> Mahomet is an archaic spelling of [[Muhammad]]. There is a legend that the Prophet Muhammad's coffin was suspended without visible support from the ceiling of his tomb, just as a wild deed just hangs there, not touching the chain of title.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/brewers/mahomet.html|title=Mahomet|access-date=21 August 2015|website=Infoplease.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908020352/http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/brewers/mahomet.html|archive-date=8 September 2015}}</ref>