2020 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 10 - Courts and Civil Procedure–procedure in Particular Actions
Chapter 10-4 Assignment for Benefit of Creditors
Section 10-4-4 Recording and notice of assignments.
§ 10-4-4. Recording and notice of assignments.
Every assignee under this chapter shall immediately cause the deed of assignment to be recorded in the registry of deeds in each town or city in which there may be real estate of the assignor on which it may operate, and in any event in the registry of deeds of the town or city where the assignor resides or is located, and shall immediately give public notice of his or her qualification, with notice to all creditors to present claims and all debtors to make payments to the assignee, in some newspaper published in the county in which the assignor resides or is located; and the assignee shall immediately also notify creditors by depositing like notice in the United States mail, postpaid, and directed to the creditors at their respective address as they appear in the schedule made by the assignor and filed with the assignee.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1902, ch. 984, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 338, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 389, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 595, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 10-4-4; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 94.)
