All mortgages of real estate shall be proven or acknowledged in the same manner that deeds for the conveyance of real estate are required by law to be proven or acknowledged. When so proven or acknowledged they shall be recorded in the counties in which the lands lie.Rev. Stat., ch. 101, § 1; Acts 1877, No. 22, § 1, p. 17; 1891, No. 7, § 1, p. 6; C. & M. Dig., § 7380; Pope's Dig., § 9434; Acts 1961, No. 185, § 10-102(2); A.S.A. 1947, § 51-1001.
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