Chap. 75.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the Sth section, chapter 118
of the Code, (edition of 1860), in relation to the Recording of Deeds.

Passed January 16, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the fifth
section of chapter one hundred and eighteen of the Code of
Virginia, (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty), be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$5. Every such contract, every deed cqnveying any such
estate or term, and every deed of' gift, or deed of trust, or
mortgage, conveying real estate or goods and chattels, shall
be void as to creditors, and subsequent purchasers for valu-
able consideration without notice, until and except from the
time that it 1s duly admitted to record in the county or cor-
poration wherein the property, embraced in such contract or
deed, may be: provided, however, that all deeds of bargain
and sale, of trust, of gift, or mortgage or power of attorney,
and all writings in respect to real or personal estate, intended
to be recorded, where such real or personal estate is situated,
lying .and being within the jurisdiction of a corporation or
hustings court, shall be recorded in the clerk’s office of such
corporation or hustings court: and provided further, that all
deeds of bargain and sale, of trust, of gift, or mortgage or
power of attorney, and all writings in respect tq real or per-
sonal estate, authorized to be recorded, conveying such real
or personal estate, situated, lying and being within the juris-
diction of a corporation or hustings court, which may have
been heretofore recorded in the clerk’s office of the county
wherein a city or town was situated, shall be as valid as if
admitted to record in the clerk’s office of the corporation or
hustings court of said city or town.” |
2. ‘This act shall be in force from its passage.