A wild instrument is an instrument executed by a person who is a stranger to the record chain of title at the time such instrument is recorded. A wild instrument is of no effect subject to the application of the common law principle of “after acquired title.”
Comment 1. For example assume that in a chain of title that runs from A to B, from B to C, C to D, an instrument recorded during C’s possession of the property from E to Z purporting to convey the land owned of record is a wild instrument and does not render D’s title unmarketable.