Chap. 163.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3393 of the Code of Virginia,

as heretofore amended, in relation to recording deeds and other writings.
[H B 235]

Approved March 22, 1932

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

Section 3393. Where writings, et cetera, to be recorded. All
deeds, deeds of trusts, deeds of release, quit-claim deeds, homestead
deeds, grants, transfers, and mortgages of real estate, releases of
such mortgages, powers of attorney to convey real estate, leases of
real estate, notices of lis pendens, and all contracts in reference to real
estate, which have been acknowledged as required by law, and cer-
tified copies of final judgments or decrees of partition affecting the
title or possession of real estate, any part of which is situated in the
county or city in which it is sought to be recorded, and all other
writings relating to or affecting real estate, which are authorized,
to be recorded, shall, unless otherwise provided, be recorded in a book
to be known as the deed book.

All deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust, homestead deeds and leases
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 permitted to be recorded ;
and all mechanics’ liens, and all other liens not directed to be re-
corded elsewhere, and all other writings relating to or affecting per-
sonal property, which are authorized to be recorded, shall, unless
otherwise provided, be recorded in a book to be known as miscella-
neous liens. Provided, if a deed, deed of trust, mortgage, contract
or other writing, conveys, relates to, or affects, both real and personal
property, it shall be recorded in the deed book only, but shall be in-
dexed in the general index book and the book of miscellaneous liens.

All bonds taken of officers, executors, administrators, trustees, or
other fiduciaries, and all bonds of commissioners and receivers, and
all suspending bonds, appeal bonds, injunction bonds, attachment
bonds, cost bonds, ministers’ bonds, and all other bonds required to
be recorded, shall be recorded in a book known as the bond book.

All wills, inventories, appraisements, lists of sales, and settlements
of accounts of executors, administrators, curators, trustees, or other
fiduciaries, shall be recorded in a book to be known as the will book ;
provided, that the judges of the several courts of the Commonwealth,
before whom fiduciaries qualify, may, by an order entered either in
term or in vacation prescribe that inventories, appraisements, accounts
of sale, and settlement of accounts of fiduciaries, together with all re-
ports and decrees or orders, or portions thereof, proper to be recorded
therewith, shall be recorded either in the current will book, or in a book
to be kept by the clerk for that purpose, as to such judge may seem
proper; provided, further, that the said courts may prescribe that
the settlements of accounts of fiduciaries be recorded in the mode pre-
scribed by section fifty-four hundred and twenty-eight of the Code
of Virginia, as amended.

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
docket ; provided that executions issued on judgments rendered by
justices of the peace which are not docketed on the judgment docket
may be recorded in the book in which executions issued by justices
of peace are recorded as provided by section six thousand and thirty-
one of the Code of Virginia.

All marriage licenses and all matters relating to marriages re-
quired or authorized to be recorded under sections five thousand and
seventy-five, five thousand and seventy-six and five thousand and sev-
enty-seven, shall be recorded in a book to be known as the mar-
riage 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.