CHAPTER 547

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 11-6 of the Code of 1950 relating
to assignments without notice so as to provide as to whom
same shall be applicable.

[H 710}

Approved April 7, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 11-6 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 11-6. Payment by debtor without notice of such assignment.
—In any case where notice of an assignment is not given to
the debtor, and, acting without knowledge of such assignment, the
debtor pays or discharges in whole or in part the obligation to the
original owner or a subsequent assignee of the owner of the same,
or to any creditor of any of them, or to any person claiming
through or on behalf of any of them, in good faith, such payment
shall be a sufficient acquittance to the debtor in whole or pro
tanto, as the case may be, but the title, right and priority of the
prior assignee shall not in any way be affected or diminished by
such payments to such original owner, subsequent assignee, credi-
tor, or person, and such original owner, subsequent assignee, credt-
tor, or person, shall be accountable to and liable to the prior
assignee as trustee for the sums so paid to them by the debtor.
2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.