Chap. 758.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2465 of the code of Vir-
ginia in relation to contracts, deeds, &c., that are void as to creditors and
purchasers unless recorded.

Approved March 4, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-four hundred and sixty-five of the code be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2465. Contracts, deeds, and so forth, that are void as to creditora
and purchasers unless recorded.—Every such contract in writing,
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 chat-
tels shall be void as to subsequent purchasers for valuable conside-
ration without notice, and creditors, until and except from the time
that it is duly admitted to record in the county or corporation
wherein the property embraced in such contract or deed may be:
provided that possession of any such estate or term, without notice
of other evidence of title, shall not be notice to said subsequent
purchasers for valuable consideration.

2. This act shal] be in force from its passage.