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From: "Paul Drake" <>
Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Land records
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 23:28:44 -0800


In the early days, the vast majority of "trustees" were those appointed or (and) approved by a court to stand in the legal stead of minors, women, or other legal incompetents, since we then had no commercial banks, as we now know such, and there were virtually NO loans accompanied by "chattel mortgages." Then too, except in the most rare of circumstances, bills of sale had nothing whatever to do with land (real property) or deeds. In fact, for centuries the legal requirements for transferring land, whether by one or by many folks, have not been met with bills of sale. Except in the VERY early times when "turf and twig" transfers were yet acceptable, it is through orders of courts, deeds and "quit-claims" ONLY that whole or partial interests in land, such as those owned by heirs, are conveyed. Paul


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