Judicial

1893/1894
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1230 of the code of Virginia, providing for the appointment of police agents and making certain persons conservators of the peace.
AN ACT requiring the corporation court of the city of Norfolk to hold monthly terms for the trial of all causes and matters cognizable by said court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3102 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the duties of the reporter of the supreme court of appeals.
An ACT for the relief of E. R. Thatcher from an erroneous assessment on a certain tract of land in the county of Frederick.
An ACT to make husband and wife competent witnesses for or against each other in civil cases.
An ACT for the relief of Sue Christian.
An ACT to define and punish the offence of cruelty to animals, and to prescribe the rights, duties and powers of all legally incorporated societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals in this state, and the officers and agents thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 5, 7, 9 and 14, and to repeal section 61 of an act entitled an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol, and to provide a new charter for the same
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to authorize the sheriff of Albemarle to execute process and to serve notices in the city of Charlottesville
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2850 of the code of Virginia, in relation to protest as evidence.
An ACT for the relief of William P. Huff from delinquent taxes.
An ACT to establish a state board of embalming, to provide for the better protection of life and health, to prevent the spread of contagious diseases, and to regulate the practice of embalming and the care and disposition of the dead.
An ACT to repeal section 2824 of the code of Virginia, relating to proceedings by a judgment creditor to discover usurious dealings on the part of his debtor.
An ACT for the relief of Joseph D. Mitchell from a fine of the county court of Grayson county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4016 of the code of Virginia, in relation to where criminal offences committed in counties are to be tried, and when and by whom the venire facias is to be issued.
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the terms of the circuit courts of the several counties in the twelfth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 817 of the code of Virginia, in relation to deputy clerks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2947 and 2957 of the code of Virginia, in relation to appeals from the judgments of justices on warrants for small claims.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4179, code of Virginia, in regard to criminal proceedings against convicts, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4219, chapter 205, code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in regard to criminal proceedings against convicts
An ACT to restrain and suppress the illegal and unlawful sale of ardent spirits on Sunday in the county of Warwick.
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts of the sixteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to provide that process for a witness during the trial of a criminal prosecution in a court of record may be executed by the officer of the court from which the process issues in any county or corporation of the state.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3199 of the code of Virginia, in relation to certain officers forbidden to practice law in particular courts.
An ACT for the relief of George W. Whittaker, of Giles county.
An ACT to amend sections 3501 and 3502 of the code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 57 of the acts of the general assembly of 1889-’90, entitled an act to amend sections 3501 and 3502 of the code of Virginia, as to fees of commissioners in chancery.
An ACT to permit city and county school boards to change the depositaries of school funds, to prescribe the methods therefor, and to fix the compensation, duties and responsibilities of such depositaries.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Roanoke county to increase the salary of the judge of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3707 of code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3707 of the code of Virginia, approved February 28, 1890—grand and petit larceny defined.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 751 of the code of Virginia, in relation to when suits may not be brought.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act passed January 11, 1877, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the eleventh section of an act entitled an act prescribing the times for holding courts of the tenth, eleventh, thirteenth and fifteenth judicial circuits, approved March 29, 1875.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3156 of the code of Virginia, in reference to writs of venire facias.
An ACT to increase the salary of the county judge of Southampton county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3315 of the code of 1887, in relation to removal by county court on motion, after notice, of suits, «c.., pending therein.
An ACT appropriating the public revenues for the two fiscal years ending respectively the 80th day of September, 1894, and the 30th day of September, 1895.
An ACT relating to the receiving of deposits by insolvent bankers, brokers or an officer of a bank.
An Act to authorize the county court of Norfolk county to take evidence and, in its discretion, correct any alleged erroneous assessment of the lands of A. Q. Philpots and C. C. Cruser in said county, and taxes assessed thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4106 of the code of Virginia, touching the jurisdiction of police justices and justices of the peace as to the trial of offenders in certain cases.
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts for the first judicial circuit.
AN ACT allowing fee to A. M. Dickinson in Carrico case.
An ACT for the relief of P. H. M. Bird, a Confederate veteran of Bland county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the hustings court of the city of Manchester to take evidence, and, in its discretion, to correct an alleged erroneous assessment of the lands of R. G. Latham in said city, and taxes assessed thereon.
An ACT to amend section 4025 of the code of Virginia, with reference to when jury not to be kept together; when so kept to be boarded; rate of board; how paid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Ashland
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 814 of the code of Virginia, as to bonds of officers, touching the bond of a supervisor in Northampton county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2965 of the code of Virginia, in relation to whom attachment may be directed and where returnable, as amended by an act approved January 380, 1894.
An ACT to provide for the correction of certain erroneous assessment of lot and taxes in the town of Emporia, in Greenesville county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the counties of Prince George and Surry to increase the salary of the judge of the county courts of said counties.
An ACT for the benefit of W. B. Kilburn, of Wise county.
An ACT to authorize the payment to George E. Sangster, late sheriff of Fairfax county, of the sum of forty dollars.
An ACT to establish the law and equity court of the city of Richmond, and to define its jurisdiction and relation to the other courts of said city.
An ACT for the relief of J. W. Rogers, of Craig county, from the payment of a fine imposed by the county court of Alleghany county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of that county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 29, 1892, entitled an act to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts in the several counties comprised in the fifteenth judicial circuit of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the code of Virginia, in regard to pay of judges and clerks of election.
An ACT to regulate and control guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity and other like companies having for their purpose or one of their purposes to become security for the faithful performance of any trust, duty, contract, agreement or bond, public or private, official or otherwise, or to assume any duty or obligation of like nature as principal or otherwise, or to become fiduciary.
An ACT to provide reciprocal rights and powers between the state of Maryland and Virginia.
An ACT for the relief of J. L. Garland, sheriff of Botetourt county.
An ACT to authorize the recordation in the clerk’s office of the corporation court of the city of Buena Vista of certain writings, papers and records heretofore recorded in the clerk’s office of the county court of Rockbridge county, by copying the same from the books in said last named clerk’s office, in which said writings are now recorded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 4, 1892, in relation to the time for holding the courts in the fourteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4047 of the code of Virginia, relating to the time within which an indictment for a felony must be tried or accused be forever discharged.
An ACT to prescribe the time for holding the courts in the eighth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2940 of the code of Virginia,in relation to warrants for small claims, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 74, of the acts of assembly, 1889-90.
An ACT to prescribe the forms to be furnished by the auditor of public accounts to clerks of courts of record of this commonwealth, on which is to be entered the money received by them, and receipts to be given by them to those paying said money, and also to provide a more effectual method of collecting the revenue arising from the tax on deeds, wills, seals of courts and money arising from fines and delinquent lands.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1670, 1683 and 1693 of the code of Virginia, in relation to lunatics and lunatic asylums.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2065 of the code of Virginia, in relation to whom attachments may be directed and where returnable.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3705 of the code of Virginia—entering dwelling-house, or other house, vessel or car in the night, with intent to commit murder, rape or robbery
An ACT to amend section 246 of the code of Virginia, with reference to furnishing the report to reporter and judges.
AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to increase the salary of the judge of the county court.
An ACT to amend sections 10, 13 and 14 of an act entitled an act to regulate municipal elections in the city of Winchester, approved March 6, 1890.
An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to add another chapter to the charter of said city creating the office of police justice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 67 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of registrars.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 444 of the code of Virginia, in relation to how and when erroneous assessments of lands corrected.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 5, 17, 33, 35, 42, 44, 46, 49 and 56 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Buena Vista, approved February 15, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders.
An ACT authorizing the purchasers of the Richmond and Danville railroad, their assigns and successors, to become and be a corporation, to adopt a name therefor, and to possess and exercise general powers; and authorizing the leasing to or by, and the consolidation therewith of, other corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3530 of the code of Virginia, relative to the fees of justices.
An ACT to provide how appeals from justices and warrants removed shall be tried, and how defects, omissions and irregularities in the proceedings below may be corrected in the court to whrelt the appeal is taken or the warrant removed.
An Act to amend and re-enact section 3225, code of Virginia, 1887—on whom process against or notice to a corporation may be served.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3379 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the docketing of chancery cases, motions, &c.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 8, 1892, entitled an act prescribing the terms for the eighteenth judicial circuit; fixing the times for holding the same, and for an increase of the salary of the judge thereof.
An ACT to amend an act to provide for working the roads in Northampton county, approved March 2, 18982.
An ACT to enable commissioners in chancery to compel the attendance of witnesses before them.
An ACT to pay John Scott, late commonwealth’s attorney of Fauquier, for services rendered in debt litigation in the United States circuit court.
An ACT to amend section 3988 of the code of Virginia, in relation to giving information of the violation of penal laws to the attorney for the commonwealth.
An ACT in relation to buying or receiving certain goods with intent to defraud.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 22, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2460 of the code of Virginia, relating to suits to avoid certain conveyances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2934 of the code of Virginia in relation to limitation of actions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2906 of the code of Virginia, with respect to the survival of the right of action to the plaintiff’s representatives in actions for tort when the plaintiff dies pending the action.
An ACT to repeal an act to regulate trials by jury in cases where the commonwealth is defendant
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3122 of the code of Virginia of 1887, making provisions for opening a court or for its sitting where it fails to meet on the day appointed or to which it adjourns, as amended by an act approved February 29, 1802.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3451 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the correction of errors in judgment or decrees by default so as to require written notice of the motion.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section 3319 of chapter 163, code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of commissioners in chancery, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 4, 1890, and by an act approved February 24, 1890, and by an act approved March 4, 1892, and by an act approved January 29, 1894.
An ACT to provide for the time of holding terms of court in the sixth judicial circuit of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the county court of Norfolk county to take evidence and, in its discretion, to correct an alleged erroneous assessment of the lands of William P. Clyde, in said county, and the taxes assessed thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3049 of the code of Virginia, providing when judge of a county or corporation court fails to hold same, what judge may do so; when governor to designate judge to do so; his pay and mileage.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3319 of chapter 163, code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of commissioners in chancery, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 4, 1890, and by an act approved February 24, 1890.
An ACT for the relief of E. P. Buford, of Brunswick county.
An ACT to provide for the submission to the people of the proposed amendment to the tenth clause of article one of the constitution of Virginia, in relation to the mode of trial in criminal or capital prosecutions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the code of Virginia, in relation to exemption from jury duty
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2955 of the code of Virginia, in relation to appeals from justices.