Evans Motors of Georgia Inc. v. Hearn

The act of August 27, 1931 (Ga. L. 1931, p. 153; Code of 1933, §§ 67-109, 67-1305), providing that the effect of a failure to record a mortgage or bill of sale or deed to secure debt “shall be the same as is the effect of failure to record a deed of bargain and sale,” so changes the prior law with reference to those securities as to render such instruments, even though unrecorded, superior in rank to subsequent liens created by law. However, the act does not expressly or impliedly change the prior law with regard to contracts of conditional sale. The Code of 1933, §§ 67-1401 to 67-1403,…