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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 good 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 (
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