CHAP. 299.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act in re-
lation 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, as further amended by an act
approved March 15, 1904, making the failure or refusal, after demand
by the person in whom the title or ownership of such property is or
his agent, to deliver such property or disclose its location prima facie
evidence of the violation of the provisions of said act.

(H. B. 334.)

Approved March 18, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembiy of Virginia, That
an act approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, entitled an act in relation to fraudulent conversion of
property held under trust deed, as amended by an act approved
February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, mak-
ing 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, and as further
amended by an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred
and four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Whenever any person is in possession of any personal prop-
erty, in any capacity, the title or ownership of which he has
agreed in writing shall be or remain in another, and such person
so in possession shall fraudulently sell, pledge, pawn, or remove
from the premises where it has been agreed that the property
shall remain, and refuse to disclose the location 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; and in any prosecution here-
under, the fact that such person, after demand therefor by the
person in whom the title or ownership of the property is, or
his agent, shall fail or refuse to disclose to such claimant or
his agent, the location of the property, or to surrender the
same, shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of the
provisions of this act.

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 provided by law.