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deed of the company to the Bradleys for the ben•t of the city of
Washington. On the sixteenth of July, 1857, the company executed
to Walter Lennox, as trustee, a deed conveying its railroad, fran-
chises, property, rights, and privileges in trust to secure thirty bonds
of a thousand dollars each, with interest, to their holders. This deed
was duly recorded on the twenty-fourth of July, 1857. None of the
foregoing deeds conveyed the income of the Alexandria & Washing-
ton Company from its road. A provision of the statute law of Vir-
ginia respecting deeds, is as follows:
"Every deed of trust conveying real estate shall be void as to creditors
(with or without notice,) and subsequent purchasers for valuable considera-
tion without notice, until and except from the time it is duly admitted to
record in the county or corporation wherein the property embraced in such
contract may lie." Code 1873, c. 114, § 5, p. 89. ‘
At several dates, about the period of the execution of these deeds,
A judgments were recorded inthe circuit court of Alexandria county,
(one judgment in the county court of that county,) against the Alex-
andria & Washington Railroad Company, viz: One on the twenty-
fifth of November, 1857,,for $6,706.70; two on the twenty-seventh
of May, 1859, for $437.17 and $2,410.87, the term of the court
rendering these having commenced on the sixteenth of May, 1859;
one on the ninth of February, 1858, for $1,243.64; one on the twenty-
nrst of March, 1860, for $1,000; one on the twenty-hrst of Febru-
ary, 1860, for $16,606.87 ; and a seventh on the twenty-first of Feb-
ruary, 1860, for $2,260.04,-all with interest and costs. The two
first named of these judgments were obtained by non-residents of
Virginia, and the second and third of them, by residents of Virginia.
These four first-named judgments were assigned as judgments, by
the judgment creditors, to Alexander Hay, the complainant in this
suit. In the three cases last named, the causes of action had been
assigned to Hay before suit, and judgments had been obtained on
them by Hay as assignee. Executions were taken out promptly on
the first five of these judgments, and returns dulymade on them.
The other two were docketecl, andso were some of thefirst five judg-
ments. The first four of these judgments were marked "satished"
on the thirtieth of November, 1865, under written authority from
Hay, dated November 23, 1859.
, The statute law of Virginia provides, in respect to judgments, sub-
stantially, that,-
Sec. 6. "Every judgment for money rendered in this state against any per-
son shall be alien on all the real estate of such person as of the date of such
· judgment; or, if rendered in court, as of the day of the commencement of
the term at which it was rendered. "
Excepté- V , -, .
Sec. 8. That _‘,‘it shall not be a lien on real estate as against a purchaser
· for valuable consideration without notice, unless it be docketed on the judg-
ment docket_ of the county court of the county where the land lies, either
within sixty days next after the date of such judgment, or fifteen days before