Pennsylvania Statutes Title 21 P.S. Deeds and Mortgages § 402. Record and notation of judgments or decrees affecting deeds or instruments of record; fee

When any final judgment or decree, heretofore or hereafter entered in any court in this Commonwealth, affects any deed or other instrument of record in the office of the recorder of deeds of any county, the recording of such judgment or decree, and a reference thereto noted upon the margin of the record of said deed or other instrument, giving the court, the date, and the number and term thereof, shall constitute record notice of such judgment or decree.

Upon the production before the recorder of deeds of either the original record or a certified copy of the record of any proceeding in any such court, the judgment or decree wherein shall affect any deed or other instrument of record in the office of such recorder of deeds, it shall be the duty of such recorder to record the said judgment or decree, with the name of the court, the title, number, and term of the proceeding wherein the same shall have been entered, and to enter, upon the margin of the record of such deed or other instrument, the notation hereinbefore provided, for which service he shall receive the fees provided by law.