61.1-4 - Failure to state in receipt warehouseman's interest in goods. - Virginia Statutes

§ 61.1-4. Failure to state in receipt warehouseman's interest in goods.

Where there are deposited with or held by a warehouseman goods of which he isthe owner, either solely or jointly in common with others, such warehouseman,or any of his officers, agents or servants, who knowing this ownership,issues or aids in issuing a negotiable receipt for such goods which does notstate such ownership, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convictionshall be punished as provided for misdemeanors generally in § 18.2-12.

(Code 1950, § 61-56; 1968, c. 69.)