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Case No. 8,241.
    LEMON v. BACON.
    [4 Cranch, C. C. 466.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    May Term, 1834.
    Evidence — Documents—Record Copt.
    An absolute deed of goods and chattels need not be recorded, and a record copy is not evidence.
    [See Bacon v. Bancroft, Case No. 714; Barger v. Miller, Id. 979.]
    [Action for freedom by Kitty Lemon, a ne-gress, against Ebenezer Bacon.)
    Mr. Key and Mr. Hodgson, for plaintiff,
    offered in evidence the record of a deed of personal property.
    Mr. Taylor, for defendant,
    objected that a record copy of an absolute deed of goods and chattels, for valuable consideration, need not be recorded, and derives no validity therefrom; and a record copy is not evidence. And such was the opinion of the COURT (nem. con.)
   (See statute of frauds of Virginia [1 Rev. Code, 1802] p. 16.)