When two or more writings embracing the same property are admitted to record in the same county or city on the same day and stamped with the identical time, if the previous sections do not provide for the case, the instrument number shall determine the writing that was first admitted to record. The instrument which was first admitted to record shall have priority in respect to the property in such county or city.
Code 1919, § 5198; 1987, c. 104.