Francis v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““(a) No conditional sale contract, conditional lease, chattel mortgage, or other lien or encumbrance or title retention instrument upon a registered vehicle, other than a lien dependent upon possession, is valid as against the creditors of an owner acquiring a lien hy levy or attachment or subsequent purchasers or encumbrances with or without notice until the requirements of this article [§§ 75-160, 75-161] have been complied with. “ (¡b) There shall be deposited with the department [Revenue Department] a copy of the instrument creating and evidencing such lien or encumbrance, which instrument is executed in the manner required by the laws of this State with an attached or indorsed certificate of a notary public stating that the same is a true and correct copy of the original and accompanied by the certificate of title last issued for such vehicle.” * # * # “ (a) Such filing and the issuance of a new certificate of title as provided in this article [§§ 75-160, 75-161]"shall constitute constructive notice of all liens and encumbrances against the vehicle described therein to creditors of the owners, to subsequent purchasers and encumbrancers except such liens as may be authorized by law dependent upon possession. * * * “(b) The method provided in this article [§§ 75-160, 75-161] of giving* constructive notice of a lien or encumbrance upon a registered vehicle shall be exclusive except as to liens dependent upon possession and any said lien or encumbrance or title retention ins”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bank of Dardanelle v. Bibler Bros.