What is "to record a deed"

Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Recording.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See Cordial, Heart.]

1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] ``I it you record.''
   --Chaucer.

2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]

   They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.
   --Fairfax.

3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.

   Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings.
   --1 Esd. i. 42.

   To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public.