Section 35-4-56
Patents.
Patents from this state or the United States to lands in this state may be recorded in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the lands lie; and a certified copy of such record is evidence in any court of this state.
(Code 1852, §1353; Code 1867, §1623; Code 1876, §2231; Code 1886, §1878; Code 1896, §1003; Code 1907, §3380; Code 1923, §6871; Code 1940, T. 47, §114.)