Singleton v. Young's Executors

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

'This case depends upon the question whether a mortgage of slaves and personalty, made in 1819, and recorded within eight months,, in the county in which the mortgagor resided, and in which a part of the slaves and personalty was also situated, at the time, is valid against a a subsequent purchaser of one of the slaves conveyed by the mortgage, but which was not, at its date, nor at any time afterwards, in the county in which the mortgage deed is recorded.

Until the passage of the act of 1820 (1 Stat. Law, 448,) no act has, in direct terms,…