What are the charges made on the recording registering and transfer of documents such as mortgages and deeds called?

What are the charges made on the recording registering and transfer of documents such as mortgages and deeds called?

Those fees are called Documentary Recordation Fees or simply 'recording fees'. Such fees are used by the land records offices to cover all the associated costs in maintaining the public records. Recording fees are charged for each instrument and tax stamps are required when property is transferred by deed in most jurisdictions. The fees collected for the tax stamps are usually turned over to the state.