Motor Vehicle Certificates of Title

John D. Killian, 3d, Legal Assistant, Frederic G. Antoun, Deputy Attorney General, and Thomas D. McBride, Attorney General,

You have requested an opinion concerning the procedure to be followed by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles of the Department of Revenue with regard to the issuance of a certificate of title applied for by an encumbrance holder upon repossession of a motor vehicle. Since September 15, 1949, the policy of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles has been that where there is a variance in dates, amounts, names or other material particulars, between the original encumbrance as recorded and…