§ 10-4-6. Effect of assignment on liens. Every assignment at common law for the benefit of creditors shall be effectual to dissolve any attachment, levy, or lien placed upon the property of the assignor not more than four (4) months prior to the making of the assignment, and the costs in full of the attachment, levy, or lien shall constitute a preferred claim against the assigned estate as part of the costs of administering the trust. The property affected by the attachment, levy, or lien shall be deemed wholly discharged and released from the attachment, levy, or lien and shall pass to the assignee as part of the assigned estate, and the superior court may order such conveyance as may be necessary to carry the purposes of this section into effect; provided, that nothing contained in this section shall have the effect to destroy or impair any title obtained by the attachment, levy, or lien by a bona fide purchaser for value, who shall have acquired the attachment, levy, or lien without notice or reasonable cause of inquiry, or to dissolve, vacate, destroy or impair any lien which exists at common law or any lien for which provision is made in chapter 9 of title 6A, chapter 3 of title 9, chapters 28, 29, 30, 34, or 35 of title 34, or chapter 15 of title 39.

History of Section. (P.L. 1902, ch. 984, § 4; C.P.A. 1905, § 1220; G.L. 1909, ch. 338, § 4; P.L. 1909, ch. 456, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 389, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 595, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 10-4-6; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 94.)