Chap. 285.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5194 of the Code of Vir-
ginia with reference to the recordation of contracts, deeds, etc., that are void
as to creditors and purchases unless recorded. [S B 35]

Approved March 17, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-

tion fifty-one hundred and ninety-four of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: “Every such con-
tract 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 such bill of sale, or
contract for the sale of goods and chattels, where the possession 1s
allowed to remain with the grantor, shall be void as to all purchasers
for valuable consideration without notice not parties thereto and lien
creditors, until and except from the time 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, but the mere possession of
real estate shall not of itself be notice to purchasers thereof for
value ‘of any interest or estate therein of the person in possession.
A recordation under this section shall not effect the nghts of a
creditor acquired under section fifty-two hundred and twenty-four.

The clerk of each court in which any such instrument is by law
required to be recorded shall keep a daily index of all such instruments
admitted to record in his office, and, immediately upon admission
of any such instrument to record, the clerk shall index the same
either in said daily index or the appropriate general index of his
office. Within thirty days, except in cities of the first class and
within ninety days in cities of the first class, after admission of such
instrument to record, the clerk shall index all such instruments in-
dexed in said daily index in the appropriate general index. During
the period above permitted for transfer from said daily index to
said general index, indexing in said daily index shall be a sufficient
compliance with the requirements of this act as to indexing.