Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions rendered prior to the enactment of Art. 9, T. 11, are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Former Civil Code 1910, § 4208 (see O.C.G.A. § 44-2-10) applied only to an absolute bill of sale. The law with reference to the registration and priority of bills of sale to secure debt was to be found in former Civil Code 1910, §§ 3306 and 3307 (see O.C.G.A. §§ 44-14-60 and44-14-63). Balchin v. Jones, 10 Ga. App. 434, 73 S.E. 613 (1912); Butler v. LaGrange Grocery Co., 29 Ga. App. 612, 116 S.E. 213 (1923).

Effect, among concurrently dated documents, of prior recording.

- Priority of recording gives priority among concurrently dated bills of sale to secure debt, if taken without notice to the others. Fourth Nat'l Bank v. Howell, 92 Ga. App. 868, 90 S.E.2d 78 (1955).

Effect of recordation on title.

- Recordation has no effect on the title to personalty, which is acquired by the grantee in the bill of sale upon the execution and delivery of the instrument by the grantor. Recording an absolute bill of sale to personalty under the provisions of statute has only the effect of making the instrument admissible in evidence without further proof of the instrument's execution. Jones v. Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 90 Ga. App. 667, 83 S.E.2d 837 (1954).

Cited in Williams v. Logan & Mears, 32 Ga. 165 (1861); Jones v. Newberry, 16 Ga. App. 424, 85 S.E. 617 (1915); Mack Trucks, Inc. v. Ryder Truck Rental, Inc., 110 Ga. App. 68, 137 S.E.2d 718 (1964).

C.J.S.

- 76 C.J.S., Records, § 11.

ALR.

- Record of instrument which comprises or includes an interest or right that is not a proper subject of record, 3 A.L.R.2d 577.

Priority between devisee under devise pursuant to testator's agreement and third person claiming under or through testator's unrecorded deed, 7 A.L.R.2d 544.