Chap. 48.—An ACT to amend section five of chapter one hundred and
fourteen of the Code of 1873, with reference to the recordation of deeds.

Approved January 26, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section five of chapter one hundred and fourteen of the Code
of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 5. Every such contract, every deed conveying any such
estate or term, and every deed of gift, or deed of trust, or
mortgage, conveying real estate or goods and chattles, shall
be void as to creditors and subsequent purchasers for valua-
ble consideration without notice, until and except from the
time that it is duly admitted to record in the county or cor-
poration wherein the pruperty 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 corporate limits of a corporation
having a corporation or hustings court or chancery court,
shall be recorded in the clerk’s office of such corporation or
hustings court, and in the city of Richmond shall be recorded
in the chancery court of said city: 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 to real or per-
sonal estate authorized to be recorded, conveying such real
or personal estate, situated, lying and being within the cor-
porate limits of a corporation having a corporation or hust-
ings court or chancery court, or within the jurisdiction of
said corporation or hustings court or chancery court, which
may have heretofore been recorded in the clerk’s office of
the county wherein such corporation is situated, shall be as
valid as it admitted to record in the clerk’s office of the cor-
poration or hustings court or chancery court of said city or
town. “

2. And this act shall not be construed to validate the re-
cordation of any deed, power of attorney, or other writing
in respect to real or personal property situated within the
corporate limits of any city or town having a corporation or
hustings court or chancery court where such recordation has
been made since the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
in any court other than the corporation or hustings court or
chancery court of the corporation within the corporate limits
of which said property is situated. And no deed or writing
or power of attorney in respect to property situated without
such corporate limits which has been recorded heretofore in
@ corporation or pustings court or chancery court of such
corporation, shall be valid as against creditors or purcbasers
for value without notice, after the first day of July, eighteen
hundred and seventy-seven.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.