Chap. 223.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act in relation
to fraudulent conversion of property held under trust deed,” approved May 23,
1887, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1898, making the said act
apply to the fraudulent disposal of personal property by any person who had
agreed in writing that the title or ownership of the same shall be or remain
in another without the written consent of such other, larceny.

Approved March 15, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, en-
titled “an act in relation to fraudulent conversions of property held
ander trust deed, as amended by an act approved February fourteenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, making the said act apply to the
fraudulent disposal of personal property by any person who has agreed
in writing that the title or ownership of the same shall be or remain
in another without the written consent of such other, larceny, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when-
ever any person is in possession of any personal property, in any capa-
city, the title or ownership of which he has agreed in writing shall be
or remain in another, and such person so in possession shall fraudu-
fently sell, pledge, pawn, remove from the premises where it has been
agreed that the property shall remain, and refuse to disclose the loca-
tion thereof, or otherwise dispose of the property without the written
consent of the owner or the person in whom the title is, or if such
writing be a deed of trust, without the written consent of the trustee
or beneficiary in such deed of trust, he shall be deemed guilty of the
larceny thereof. This act shall not be construed to interfere with the
rights of any innocent third party purchasing said property, unless
such writing shall be docketed or recorded as required by law.