If 2 or more mortgages, or conveyances in the nature of mortgages, of the same premises are lodged in the same office at the same time, they shall stand in priority in relation to each other, according to their respective dates.

Code 1852, § ?1633; Code 1915, § ?3223; Code 1935, § ?3685; 25 Del. C. 1953, § ?2107;