Case ID: dc_4/html/0466-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Negress Kitty Lemon v. Ebenezer Bacon.
    An absolute deed of goods and chattels need not be recorded; and a record copy is not evidence.
    Action for freedom.
    
      Mr. Key and Mr. Hodgson, for the plaintiff,
    offered in evidence the record of a deed of personal property.
    
      Mr. Taylor, for the 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, p. 16.)