CHAP. 26.—An ACT to amend section 5189 of the Code of Virgin arty
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Approved September 5, 1919.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifty-one eighty-nine of the Code of Virginia of nineteen
hundred and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

See. 5189. Reservation of title to and liens on goods and
chattels sold to be void as to creditors and purchasers unless. in
writing and recorded.—Every sale or contract for the sale of
goods and chattels wherein the title thereto or lien thereon jis
reserved until the same be paid for, in whole or in part, or the
transfer of title is made to depend on any condition where pos-
session is delivered to the vendee, shall, in respect to such reser-
vation and condition, be void as to creditors of and purchasers
for, value without notice from such vendee until such sale or
contract be evidenced by writing signed by the vendor and. the
vendee, setting forth the date thereof, the amount due, when
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and how payable, a brief description of the goods. and chattels,
and the terms of the reservation or condition, and until and ex-
cept from the time a memorandum of said writing, setting forth
the date thereof, the amount due thereon, when and how payable,
and a brief description of.said goods and chattels is duly admit-
ted to record in the county or corporation in which said goods
or chattels may be, or in the clerk’s office of the chancery court
of the city of Richmond, if said goods and chattels be in that
city, or, if said goods and chattels consist of locomotives, cars,
or other rolling stock, equipments, or personal property of any
description, to be used in or about the operation of any railroad,
until and except from the time the said writing is duly admitted
to record in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of the county,
or the corporation court of the city wherein the principal office
in this State of the company operating the railroad is located,
or in the clerk’s office of the chancery court of the city of Rich-
mond, if said principal office is within the corporate limits of
the said city, and a copy of said writing be filed in the office of
the State corporation commission, and each locomotive, car or
other piece of the rolling stock be plainly and permanently mark-
ed with the name of the vendor on both sides thereof, followed
by the word “owner.” Such writing shall be acknowledged or
attested by a subscribing witness as to both the vendor and
vendee. It shall be the duty of the clerk to make the recorda-
tion required by this section in the book of miscellaneous liens
and index it in the name of both the vendor and the vendee, for
which service he may charge a fee not exceeding twenty-five
cents, but no tax shall be charged thereon. No writing shall be
deemed to be admitted to record under this section unless and
until the same has been indexed according to law. All sales or
contracts for. the sale of goods and chattels other than locomo-
tives, cars and railroad equipment heretofore docketed without
acknowledgment or proof shall have the same force and effect
as if the same had been duly acknowledged or proved.

2. . This act shall be in force on and after January thirteenth,
nineteen hundred and twenty.