The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-04-11
S T A t E L A w S.
An ACT to prevent Fraud in the transfer of
Personal Property.

Personal Property.
Sec l. BE it enacted, &c, That no Mort
gage of Personal Property hereafter made
shall be valid against any other person than the
parties thereto, unless possession Of the morgaged
property be delivered to- and retained by the
gagee, or unless the said mortgage be recorded in
the office of the Clerk OF the city or town, where
the mortgager shall reside at the time of making
the same Provided, That nothing herein con-
tanned shall effect any transfer of property under
bettomry or respondentia bonds. or of any ship or
goods at sea or abroad, if the mortgage shall take
possession thereof, as soon may be after the ar
rival OF the same in this Commonwealth.
Sec q BE ii further enacted, That it shall be
the duty of said Clerks upon payment of their fees
to record mortgages of personal property, in a
book TO be by them respectively kept for that pu;-
pose, with the time when the same are received
and recorded, and the fees of said Clerks for re-
cording such mortgages, and for certifying the time
when, and the book and page where the same may
be recorded, for making and certifying copies and
for entering discharges shall be the same, as are
now by law allowed to Registers of Deeds for sim
liar services.
Approved by the Governor March %, 1882.
An ACT, in further addition to an Act, en-
titled San Act to enabIe creditors TO
receive their just demands, ont of the
goods, effects, and credits of their debt
ors, when the same cannot be attached
by the ordinary process Of law"
BE 1t enacted, DC, That the several provisions
of An Act to enable creditors to receive their
just demands out Of the goods, effects and credits
Of their debtors, when the same cannot be attach
ed by the ordinary process of law" and of all 9TH
er acts in addition thcreto shall be, and the same
hereby are extended to all cases wherein any cor
poration, or body polite may be entrusted with,
or possessed Of any money, goods effects or cred
its of any debtor, far as they shall be applicable
to such cases, and such corporation or body poll
tic, shall De proceeded against, and held to answer
IN the same way and manner, is provided in the
acts aforesaid, for trustees in other cases.
Sec 2. BE ii further enacted, That whenever
the trustee process, provided in the several acts
aforesaid, shall be instituted against any corpora
tion or body polite as the trustee of any debtor,
the service thereof shall be made upon the same
persons, and by the same officers, thirty days be-
fore the said process shall be returnabe as is now
by law required in suits wherein such corporation
or body polite, shall be the principal debtor. And
such corporation or body polite is hereby requir-
ed to disclose its pecuniay relation with such debt
or, on the oath or affirmation of the Cashier, Clerk
Agent, Sclectmen, Committee or other person or
persons conducting the concerns thereof, which
disclosure shall have the same operation and eff
ect as disclosure of trustees in other cases. and
the several forms of the trustee process afo ,esad
may be so altered as to conform 10 the provisions
of this act.
Sec. 8. Re IT, further enacted, That all provis-
ions OF existing laws inconsistent with the pro-
visions OF this act be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
Approved by the Governor, March "a, 1882.