settlement statement, discharge request, and check submitted by the government. 3 . Green Tree has submitted "payoff statements” from the USDA to the Rickers, but these simply show the total amount due on two loans as of August 22, 2001; they do not show that the loans were in fact repaid, whether out of the proceeds of Green Tree’s loan to the Rickers or otherwise. For reasons that are not apparent to the court, Green Tree has not submitted any documents from the Strafford County Registry showing either the existence or the discharge of the USDA mortgages. 4 . In suggesting otherwise, the government relies exclusively on cases dealing with unrecorded, or improperly recorded, mortgages and other encumbrances. See, e.g., Amoskeag Bank v. Chagnon, 133 N.H. 11, 16, 572 A.2d 1153 (1990) (<HOLDING>). But Conseco’s mortgage was not “unrecorded” —
holding that foreclosure of prior mortgage extinguished second mortgage holding that a judgment creditor unlike a purchaser does not take subject to a prior mortgage which has been improperly recorded holding that the trustee did not have constructive knowledge of an improperly executed mortgage because ohio law provided that an improperly executed mortgage does not provide constructive notice to a subsequent bona fide purchaser holding that a mortgage took priority over a judgment lien under real prop  3201 where the mortgage had been executed before but recorded after the institution of a lawsuit to obtain the judgment lien holding that a mortgage transfer does not take effect until the mortgagee gives value in exchange for the mortgage