Chapter 214. Requiring bills of sale, conditional sales, mortgages, or deeds of trust of chattels in the District of Columbia to be recorded
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CHAP. 214.— An Act Requiring bills of sale, conditional sales, mortgages, or deeds of trust of chattels in the District of Columbia to be recorded.May 21, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in the District of Columbia District of Columbia. Bills of sale, etc., personal property to be recorded. no bill of sale, conditional sale, mortgage, deed or trust, or any conveyance, in whole or in part, of personal property or chattels, where the property has not been delivered, through or by which title is claimed to, or a lien or claim is retained or created in such personal property or chattels, shall be good or valid against a subsequent innocent purchaser for value and without notice, unless such bill of sale, conditional sale, mortgage, deed of trust, or other writing has been duly delivered for record in the office of the recorder of deeds in said District prior to the sale to such innocent purchaser; and all such instruments shall take effect and be valid from the time when such instrument shall have To take effect from time of record. been delivered to the recorder for record, and the recorder shall indorse on each instrument aforesaid the day and hour of delivery of the same to him to be recorded.
Approved, May 21, 1896.