Divorce
| An act to divorce Jane Craft, of Norfolk county, from her husband. |
| An ACT to Prescribe in What Manner and on What Conditions a Householder or Head of a Family shall Set Apart and Hold a Homestead and Personal Property, for Benefit of Himself and Family, Exempt from Sale for Debt. |
| An ACT to Amend Section 10, Chapter 170 of the Code (1860), with regard to Order of Publication. |
| An ACT to exempt the Homesteads of Families from forced Sales. |
| An ACT to Provide for the Appointment of Commissioners in the County of Hanover to Lay off Townships into Election Districts. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the First Section of ‘‘An Act to Authorize the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Company to Consolidate and Provide for the Payment of its Mortgage Debt |
| An ACT to repeal chapter 121 of the Code of 1878, in relation to the Maintenance of Illegitimate Children. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 166, of the Code of 1873, in reference to orders of publication. |
| An ACT to provide for the compensation of Special House committee and their clerks appointed by resolution of the House cf Delegates of Virginia, adopted March Yth, 1880. |
| An ACT for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, and licenses, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt. |
| An ACT to provide a new Charter for the City of Roanoke. |
| An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the Normal Collegiate institute, and to provide for the support of the same, approved March 6, 1882, and in lieu thereof provide anew for the incorporation of said Normal and Collegiate institute, and for the support of the same. |
| An ACT to amend section 2462 of the code of Virginia in regard to reservation of title to goods and chattels sold upon condition. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2257 of the code, in relation to divorces. |
| An ACT to make husband and wife competent witnesses for or against each other in civil cases. |
| An ACT to make a conspiracy between a husband and any other person or persons to cause a wife to Commit adultery a felony, and to provide a pushiment theretor. |
| An act to make husband and wife competent witnesses for or against each other in certain civil and criminal cases. |
| An ACT to authorize the governor to appoint a beard of commission-ers forthe prumotion of the uniformity of legislation in the United States. |
| An ACT in relation to the property rights of married women, declaring how they may acquire and dispose of property; make contracts, sue and be sued; and to amend sections 2291, 2293, 2294, and 2296, chapter 103 of the code of Virginia; and to repeal sections 2284, 2285, 2286, 2287, oe hance i 2292, and 2295 as amended by acts of 1895 and 1896 on page |
| An ACT to authorize the governor to appoint a board of commissioners for the promotion of the uniformity of legislation in the United States. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the code of Virginia, in relation to when and how decree for divorce from bed and board may be revoked or divorce from bond of matrimony granted. |
| An ACT to authorize the governor to appoint a board of commissioners for the promotion of the uniformity of legislation in the United States. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to make husband and wife competent witnesses for or against each other in certain civil and criminal cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 2260 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relating to proceedings for divorce. |
| An ACT to provide for the appointment every two years by the governor of three commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States, to define their duties, and to authorize the payment of their traveling expenses. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 17, 1896, relating to divorces, approved March 16, 1903. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 17, 1896, relating to divorces. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2260 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relating to proceedings for divorce. |
| An Act to provide for the appointment every two years by the governor of three commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States, to define their duties, and to authorize the payment of their traveling expenses. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the Code of Virginia, relating to divorces. |
| An ACT to prohibit advertising of any offer to obtain divorces. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3207 and 3208 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2216, as amended by an act approved January 17, 1896; 2224, as amended by an act approved December 17, 1895; 2225, as amended by an act approved January 28, 1896; 2228, 2240, 2250, and to repeal section 2233 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 17, 1896, relating to divorcees. |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor to desert without just cause or wilfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances, and to provide a penalty therefor. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 19 and 74, of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March 20, 1874, as amended by an act approved February 27, 1878, and as further amended by an act approved March 3, 1900. |
| An ACT to ratify and confirm the appointment of a certain commissioner for the circuit court of Fairfax county, Virginia, and to ratify and validate all depositions and other acts or transactions taken, done or performed by, or before, such commissioner. |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor for parents or guardians to refuse or neglect to support their children under fourteen years of age, or to subject children under seventeen years of age to vicious or immoral influence, encourage any child to commit a misdemeanor, or to send a child under seventeen years of age to certain places; punishment therefor, and declaring an emergency. |
| An ACT to amend the divorce practice in the State of Virginia and to provide for the mailing of a copy of the order of publication against non-resident defendants to his or her last known place of address by registered mail at least fifteen days before the taking of depositions |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend the divorce practice in the State of Virginia, and to provide for the mailing of a copy of the order of publication against non-resident defendants to his or her last known place of address by registered mail at least fifteen days before the taking of depositions |
| An ACT to provide, in cities containing 50,000 inhabitants or more, for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the justice of the juvenile and domestic relations court, and to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties. |
| An ACT to place it in the discretion of the court to require testimony in a divorce case to be given ore tenus in open court, and providing how testimony so given, may be made part of the record of the cause for appeal. |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his child or children under the age of sixteen years; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provisions for the apprehension and punishment of persons convicted of non-support, and providing that persons convicted of non-support shall be sent to the convict road force in certain contingencies; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of said recognizances; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; and making chief of police and sheriff probation officers in certain contingencies. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45, 46, 46%, 46% (a), 4614(b), 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51(a), 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 8&5, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 9214, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 97%, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 104, 105, 106, 106%4, 107, 108, 109, 10944, 110, 111, 11144, 112, 1138, 118%, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 118(a), 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 1380, 131, 18382. 133, 1384, 1385, 136, 137, 138, 140 and 141 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3793 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to buggery and kindred crimes and punishment therefor. |
| An ACT to provide for payment of compensation to counsel employed by the judge presiding at the trial to defend Luther Canter and James Canter, in the circuit court of Washington county, charged with having raped and murdered Maude Wilson, who were unable to employ counsel. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2257 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT requiring clerks of courts to make report to the State registrar of vital statistics of all divorces, granted and pending. |
| An ACT regulating marriages and the issuance of marriage licenses; prohibiting marriages in certain cases, providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act. |
| An ACT to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibition and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March 10, 1916 and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1919, and the 29th day of February, 1920. |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5106 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3484 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the fees of the clerks of circuit, appellate and other courts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5105 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizance, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918. |
| An ACT to provide for the licensing, regulation, and inspection of maternity hospitals, and to repeal sections 1925 to 1930, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to provide, in certain cases, for the payment out of county and city treasuries of allowances for the support of children in their own homes and for the partial reimbursement by the State of the counties and cities making such payments; also to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved February 28, 1918. |
| An Act making appropriations for the support of the government of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the year ending February 29, 1924. |
| An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Henry to borrow the sum of $100,000.00 and to issue serial bonds or notes for the same running from one to ten years; to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof at maturity; to provide that the money so borrowed shall be used for the retirement or payment of any notes, bonds or warrants heretofore issued by said board; to repeal an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to borrow the sum of $50,000.00 to be used for the construction and permanent improvement of roads and bridges in said county under the supervision of the State highway commissioner or the board of supervisors of said county and to provide for the payment of same and to provide for the retirement of any notes or bonds which may have been issued by said board pursuant to acts of the general assembly, approved March 9, 1918, and March 14, 1918, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, approved September 5, 1919; and to provide that no bank, person, firm or corporation in the county of Henry shall hereafter receive any interest on any loan made to the board of supervisors of the county of Henry unless such loan shall have been authorized by the general assembly. |
| An ACT to re-amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the town of Waynesboro, known since consolidation with Basic City as Waynesboro-Basic, and to provide a charter for the town of Waynesboro. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to divorces. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of New London Academy to lease said buildings to county superintendents of schools of Bedford and Campbell counties for school purposes, approved May 10, 1887, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1912, authorizing the trustees of New London Academy to convey the real and personal property vested in them to the county school boards of Bedford and Campbell counties, and providing for the maintenance and management of the academy; and to enlarge the powers of the said board of managers. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5115, chapter 205 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, concerning divorces. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5103 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to divorces from the bond of matrimony. |
| An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1929, and the 28th day of February, 1930. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5106 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, so as to require depositions in certain divorce cases to be taken before a commissioner in chancery. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2569, of the Code of Virginia, relating to relief from fines. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5123 of the Code of Virginia, relating to dower. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5314, 5316 and 5320 of the Code of Virginia, all of which sections are in chapter 216 of the said Code entitled “Guardians and Wards.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6043 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5109 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to oral testimony in open court, in divorce cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of nonsupport; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties, and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 85 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1918, entitled "an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 21, 1916, relating to Confederate pensions," approved February 28, 1918, as last amended by an act approved March 26, 1928. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 205 thereof a new section numbered 5112-a providing that a divorce from bed and board shall not bar a divorce from the bonds of matrimony. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to divorces and dissolution of marriages, maintenance of parties, care, custody and maintenance of children, and property rights. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 85 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1918, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 21, 1916, relating to Confederate pensions, approved February 28, 1918, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5103 and 5115 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to divorces from bond of matrimony and from bed and board. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5113 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918, in relation to jurisdiction in cases of desertion and non-support. |
| An ACT: to amend and reenact an act entitled: "An act requiring clerks of courts to make report to the State Registrar of Vital Statistics of all divorces, granted and pending" |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5106 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to how suits for divorce instituted and conducted. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of an act entitled “An act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment. of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts’ |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5106-a limiting requirements as to alleging or proving offer of reconciliation in certain suits for divorce. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4543 of the Code of Virginia, relating to adultery and fornication. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3484 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to fees of clerks of courts. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to divorces and dissolution of marriages, maintenance of parties, care, custody and maintenance of children, and property rights. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5108 of the Code of Virginia, relating to orders of publication in certain divorce suits, so as to change the time when depositions may be commenced, and to validate certain divorces granted in cases where the defendant was proceeded against by order of publication. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1920 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appeals from certain courts with respect to delinquent, dependent and neglected children, so as to prescribe the courts in the city of Richmond to which such appeals will lie. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4768 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the limitation of certain prosecutions. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5108 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to orders of publication in certain divorce suits, so as to provide an additional ground for the entry of an order of publication and to validate certain divorces, granted in cases where the defendant was pro-ceeded against by order of publication. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5108 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relative to orders of publication in certain divorce suits and to validate certain divorces granted in cases where the defendant was proceeded against by order of publication. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 324 of the Acts of 1922, as heretofore amended, entitled an act to require persons sixteen years of age or over, of sufficient earning capacity or income, to support their parents, who are in destitute or necessitous circumstances, and to repeal an act entitled an act to require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their parents in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, designated Section 511l-a, providing that the court may commit persons against whom orders or decrees for support and maintenance are entered to workhouses, city farms, or work squads, under certain conditions. |
| Proposing amendment to Section 73 of the Constitution of Virginia: |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5115 of the Code of Virginia; as heretofore amended, relating to merging a decree for divorce from bed and board into a decree from the bond of matrimony. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5113, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to time within which neither party may remarry after divorce from bond of matrimony. |
| An ACT to repeal Sections 1936, 1937 and 1938 in Chapter 80 of the Code of Virginia, relating to desertion and non-support; to amend the Code by adding in Chapter 80 seven new Sections numbered 1936, 1936-a, 1937, 1937-a, 1937-b, 1937-c and 1938, relating to the same subjects, to contain, with certain amendments, the same matters as the sections of the Code repealed and as contained in Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, as amended, of Chapter 416 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 27, 1918, which relate to the same subjects : and to repeal Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, and all amendments thereof, of Chapter 416 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 27, 1918, relating to the same subjects. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5327, 5328 and 5329 of the Code of Virginia, relating to custody of and access to minor children in certain cases, to make certain changes in jurisdiction and rights of parents and others. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to dissolution of marriages and divorce. |
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