WHEN REGISTER OF DEEDS MAY REFUSE REGISTRATION

> When there are several copies off the title but only one is presented with the instrument to be registered Where there are several copies of the same title in existence, it is easy to see how their integrity may be adversely affected if an encumbrance, or an outright conveyance, is annotated on one copy and not on the others. The law itself refers to every copy authorized to be issued as a duplicate of the original, which means that both must contain identical entries of the transactions, particularly voluntary ones, affecting the land covered by the title.

> When the property is presumed to be conjugal but the instrument of conveyance bears the signature of only one spouse.

> Where there is a pending case in court where the character of the land and validity of the conveyance are in issue. In such a case, the matter of registration may well await the outcome of that case, and in the meantime the rights of the interested parties could be protected by filing the proper notice of lis pendens.