The clerk of the court wherein there is any partition of land under any order or decree, or any recovery of land under judgment or decree, shall transmit to the clerk of the court of each county or city in whose office deeds to such land or any part thereof are recorded, a copy of such order, judgment, or decree, and of such partition or assignment, and of the order confirming the same, and along therewith such description of the land as may appear in the papers of the cause. And the clerk of the court of such county or city shall record the same in his deed book, and index it in the name of the person who had the land before, and also in the name of the person who became entitled under such partition, assignment or recovery.
Code 1919, § 5216; 1924, p. 454; 1946, p. 190; 1990, c. 831.