Chap. 218.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3393 of the Code of Vir-

ginia. [H B 205]
Approved March 16, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-three hundred and ninety-three of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3393. Where writings, et cetera, to be recorded.—All deeds,
deeds, of trust, deeds of release, quit-claim deeds, homestead deeds,
grants, transfers, and mortgages of real estate, releases of such mort-
gages, powers of attorney to convey real estate, leases, notice of lis
pendens and all contracts in reference to real estate. which have been
acknowledged as required by law, and certified copies of final judg-
ments or decrees of partition or affecting the title or possession of
real estate, any part of which is situated in the county or city in which
it 1s sought to be recorded, shall be recorded in a book to be known
as the “deed book” or hand record.

All mortgages of personal property, bills of sale, and all other
contracts, or liens as to personal property not mentioned in sections
fifty-one hundred and eighty-nine and sixty-four hundred and fifty-
two of this Code, as amended, which are by law required or per-
mitted to be recorded ; all mechanics’ liens, and all other liens not
especially directed to be recorded elsewhere, shall be recorded in a
book to be known as “miscellaneous liens.” If a deed conveys both
real and personal property, it shall be recorded in the deed book only,
but shall be indexed in the general index of both deed book and the
book of miscellaneous liens.

All bonds. taken of officers, executors, administrators, trustees, or
other fiduciaries, shall be recorded i in a book to-be known as the “bond
book.”

All wills, inventories, appraisements, and settlements of accounts of
executors, administrators, trustees, or other fiduciaries, shall be re-
corded in a book to be known as the “will book” ; provided that the
judges of the several courts in the Commonwealth, before whom
fiduciaries are required to qualify, may, by an order entered either in
term or in vacation, prescribe that inventories, appraisements, accounts
of sale and settlements of accounts of fiduciaries, together with all
reports and decrees or orders or portions thereof proper to be recorded
therewith, shall be recorded either in the “current will book” or ina
book to be kept by the clerk for that purpose as to such judge may
seem proper.

Abstracts of all judgments authorized or required by law to be
docketed or recorded and abstracts of all executions issued on any
Judgment shall be recorded in a book to be known as the “judgment

ocket.”

All matters relating to marriages required or authorized to be re-
corded under sections fifty hundred and seventy-five, fifty hundred and
seventy-six and fifty hundred and seventy-seven, shall be recorded in a
book to be known as the “marriage register.”

All deeds and other instruments which have been only partially
proved shall be recorded in a separate book to be known as “writings
partially proved.”

Z. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage,