...efficiency.' Ch. 279. — Mortgages of personal property. Every mortgage of personal property, not accompanied by an immediate delivery and ' followed...actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged,' shall be void ' as against the creditors of the mortgagor and subsequent purchasers and...

...conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels hereafter made, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed...actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor, and as against subsequent...

...against him. The argument on both sides has proceeded upon the assumption that the mortgage was not "accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed...actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged," and that therefore the Chattel Mortgage act applies to this case. The bill does not allege...

...p. 139) declares that every •chattel mortgage made after it shall take effect, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed...actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against creditors, * * * unless the mortgage, or a true copy...

...agarnst creditors, whether they know of it or not, which is not made a matter of public record, or accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed...actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged. If the mortgagor retains possession, the mortgage is void as to creditors, unless it is...

..."Every mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as such of. goods and chattels, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed...actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor, and as against subsequent...

...of the passage of those acts. They declared that mortgages of goods which were not accompanied by au immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged, should be void as against creditors and subsequent purchasers and mortgagees, &c., unless...

...possession of the vendor, and assignments of goods as security, or upon any condition whtlever, unless accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of posecssion, are fraudulent and void as against the creditors of the vendor or assignor, and as against...

...mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chatp/ls, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of posssawbn of the things mortgaged, absolutely void as againj^the creditors of the mortgagor, and...

...creditors of the mortgagor and as against subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith unless it be accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the tilings mortgaged, or [a true copy thereof be filed] [be recorded] as directed...