Scales v. . Fewell

If the deed given by Patterson to Scales does not fall within the laws regulating the registration of mortgage deeds, it falls within the operation of another equally fatal to it. It bears date 2 September, 1819, and by the act of 1789, ch. 315, sec. 2, it ought to have been registered within twelve months after its execution; otherwise the (20) act declares it to be void and of no force whatsoever. It was not registered until November, 1821, and at that time there was no law giving further time in cases where the time had elapsed within which deeds ought to have been registered. The last law…