Chap. 89.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2465 of the code of Vir-
ginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, in relation to
contracts, deeds, &c., that are void as to creditors and purchasers unless
recorded.

Approved January 15, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-four hundred and sixty-five of the code as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
six, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March third, eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

S 2465. Contracts, deeds, and so forth, that are void as to creditors
and purchasers unless recorded.—Every such contract in writing and
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 chattels,
and every bill of sale or contract for the sale of goods and chattels when
the possession is allowed to remain with the grantor (and any such bill
of sale or contract shall be in writing and signed by the vendor), shall
be void as to subsequent purchasers for valuable consideration 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, deed, or bill of sale may be: provided, that
the possession of any such estate or term, without notice of other evi-
dence of title, shall not be notice to said subseyuent purchasers for
valuable consideration.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.