Chap. 362.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2462 of the code of Vir-
ginia, in regard to reservation of title to goods and chattels sold upon
condition, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 28, 1890.

Approved February 23, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-four hundred and sixty-two of the code of Virginia, in regard
to reservation of title to goods and chattels sold upon condition, as
amended by an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

R DARD HKvearv aale or contract for tha raalo anf gonodea or chattala
wherein the title is reserved until the same be paid for in whole or
in part, or the transfer of title is made to depend on any condition,
and possession be delivered to the vendee, shall, in respect to such
reservation and condition, be void as to creditors of and purchasers
for value without notice from such vendee until such sale or con-
tract be in writing, signed by both the vendor and vendee, in which
the said reservation or condition is expressed, and until and except
from the time that a memorandum of said writing, setting forth the
date thereof, the amount due thereon and a brief description of said
goods or chattels be docketed in the clerk’s office of the county or
corporation court of 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 or chattels be within the corporate
limits of said city ; and it shall be the duty of such clerk to docket
and to index the same from the original contract in the name of the
vendor and vendee, together with the date of such docketing, in a
book to be kept by him for that purpose, and to endorse on such
contract the words, ‘Memorandum docketed,” with his signature as
clerk affixed thereto, for which services the clerk may charge a fee
not exceeding twenty-five cents; but no tax shall be charged thereon,
and the docketing and indexing of such memorandum of said con-
tract as is herein provided for shall have the same effect as to credi-
tors of and purchasers for value without notice from the vendee, as
if said contract were recorded according to the provisions of chapter
ove hundred and nine of the code of Virginia of eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, or if said goods or 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 county or corporation court of the
county or corporation 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 Richmond, 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 board of public works, and each
locomotive, car or other piece of rolling stock be plainly and perma-
nently marked with the name of the vendor on both sides thereof,
followed by the word “ owner.”

Except where said goods and chattels consist of locomotives, cars
or other rolling stock, equipments or personal property of any de-
scription to be used in or about the operation of any railroad, no
acknowledgment or other form of proof shall be requisite to author-
ize the clerk to docket said sale or contract, and all sales or con-
tracts for the sale of goods or chattels other than locomotives, cars
and railroad equipment aforesaid, heretofore docketed without
acknowledgment or other 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 from its passage.