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1893/1894
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8226 of the code of Virginia, relating to service of process or notice on corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the code of Virginia, as to obstructing or injuring canals, &c.—how punished.
An ACT to provide for the method of voting by ballot.
1897/1898
An ACT providing for the relief of H. J. Swindall, Fd. Tall, and John Hall, administrators of John Branham, deceased, all of Wise county of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4106 of the code of Virginia in relation to the jurisdiction of police justices and justices of the peace as to the trial of offenders in certain cases.
An ACT prescribing times for holding courts in the Fourteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3567 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the time from which a judgment is to be a lien on all the real estate of debtor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize certain persons when arrested or convicted to be committed to the custody of the Prison association of Virginia
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to sections 1 and 2 of article seven of the constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next general assembly.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 7 of an act entitled ‘An act to establish a corporation court for the city of Bristol, in Washington county,' approved February 12, 1890.
An ACT amending and re-enacting sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 12 of chapter 398, acts of assembly 1895-96, approved February 20, 1896, to legalize primary elections in Henrico county.
An ACT to validate judgments and decrees of courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4107 of the code of Virginia in relation to the right of appeal to court from the judgments of police justices and justices of the peace in criminal cases, to provide for the disposition of the accused unless let to bail; the issue of a new warrant or the amendment of the original warrant by the county, corporation or hustings court, and to fix the rule of procedure on these Warrants in the said county, hustings or corporation court.
An ACT to authorize the beneficial equitable owner of a claim or chose in action, for the enforcement of which a court of equity has jurisdiction, to maintain a suit in equity, either in the name of the holder of the legal title for his benefit or in his own name.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3283 of the code of Virginia in reference to judgments and decrees in vacation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3909 of the code of Virginia, edition of 1887, with reference to clerks keeping registers and descriptive lists of persons convicted of felony and copy of Hsts, to be evidence of identity, furin of register and such reference to taking photographs.
An ACT to enable married women to sue in their own name in all cases where they were required to sue by their next friend.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 412 of the acts of 1S91-"92 titled an act to provide for the time of holding the terms of the Second Judicial circuit
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 23, 1844, entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the circuit courts in the several counties comprised in the Eleventh judicial circuit of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tazewell county to rent law offices located on courthouse square in said county.
An ACT for the relief of C. B. Beamer, S. J. Fisher, M. Goldberg, Ella Morgan, L. Shere and J. W. Richardson.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2033 of the code of Virginia as to limitation of suits
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to compensate Justices of the peace of the city of Norfolk for acknowledgment of bail in certain cases
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4052 of the code of Virginia, in relation to writs of error; where lhe, when for accused, when for state.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the code of Virginia in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to legalize primary elections and conventions in the city of Richmond, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
An ACT to modify the existing statutes defining and establishing the criminal jurisdiction of the corporation court of the city of Winchester, of the county court of the county of Frederick, and of the several Justices of the city of Winchester and of the county of Frederick.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Emporia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the circuit courts in the Fourth judicial circuit since the addition thereto of the city of Lynchburg and county of Campbell, as provided by an act approved February 5, 1896.
An ACT to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to keep in its clerk’s office a register of the securities under the control of the court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled an act In relation to commitment of minors to Prison association of Virginia and their custody
An ACT determining the respective interests of the county and corporation of Alexandria in the half square of ground in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, bounded by Columbus, Queen and Princess streets, upon which stands the courthouse, and the half square of ground in said city, bounded by St. Asaph, Princess and Pitt streets, upon which stands the jail, and authorizing the partition of said properties between the county and corporation of Alexandria, and of the sale of the courthouse property.
An ACT for the relief of the securities of C. H. Ingles, late treasurer of Henry county.
An ACT to establish a circuit court for the city of Buena Vista.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5260 of the code of Virginia
An ACT to authorize the filing of a petition in a pending chancery cause In the clerk’s office, and to mature the same at rules.
An ACT to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to keep in its clerk’s office a book showing the amount of money and notes under the control or subject to the order of said court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 492 of the code of Virginia ; by whom property is to be listed ; to whom taxed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2945 and 2919 of the code relating to warrants for small claims.
An act to make husband and wife competent witnesses for or against each other in certain civil and criminal cases.
An ACT to revise, arrange and consolidate into one act the laws relating to negotiable instruments (being an act to establish a law uniform with the laws of other states on that subject).
An ACT to prescribe the time for holding the cireuit courts of the Sixteenth Judicial district.
An ACT authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of Scott county to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of said county.
An ACT to provide for the garnishment of and levy of execution on wages and salaries of all city, town and county officials, clerks and employees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2042 of the code of Virginia, in relation to damages for trespass by animals, forfeiture, &c.
An ACT to authorize the qualified voters of the county of Northampton to vote upon the removal of the courthouse, clerk's office, jail, and other buildings pertaining to the court of Northampton county, from their present location at Eastville to the town of Cape Charles, and to appropriate a part of the glebe fund of said county towards erecting new buildings in case of removal, and to improve and enlarge the courthouse by appropriating two thousand dollars of said glebe fund.
An ACT to dispense with the necessity for a motion for a new trial
An ACT to provide for the appointment of special prosecuting attorneys In proper cases.
An ACT defining the territorial jurisdiction of the circuit court for the city of Lynchburg and validating any Judgment, order or decree heretofore made by said court within the jurisdiction mentioned in first section.
An ACT to require the clerks of the county and corporation courts of this state to report to their respective courts a list of all fines reported by justices of the peace under section 718 of the code of Virginia, what lists shall contain, and to require the auditor of public accounts to furnish blank forms upon which such lists shall be made.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subdivision 6 of section 184 of the code of Virginia, in reference to the salaries of the judges of the corporatior courts of the cities of Lynchburg and Staunton.
A RESOLUTION making it the duty of the attorney-general to notify commonwealth’s attorneys of defects and inaccuracies as to certain official bonds
An ACT to provide that if the plaintiff in a warrant upon a contract...
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled, ‘An act to amend and re-enact section 3427 of the code of Virginia in relation to how a chancery cause submitted for decision in vacation; how the decree certified and entered; its effect,’
An ACT to provide for the payment of allowances made by the circuit and county courts of Scott county, or the judges thereof, for suitable furniture and other equipments for their respective clerks’ offices, and to order such repairs and improvements of the courthouse grounds and buildings as may be necessary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 817 of the code of Virginia providing for oaths to be taken by the deputies of certain city and county officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to establish a corporation court for the city of Buena Vista
An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and West Virginia railroad company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3768 of the code of Virginia in relation to contempts, to define what are direct and what are indirect contempts, and to provide a mode of procedure in such class of cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 717 and 718 of the code of Virginia relating to fines and costs before justices of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a method for a better assessment of personal property under the control of fiduciaries and the several courts of the commonwealth
An ACT to terminate and declare vacant the offices of judges of election at a certain date.
An ACT making it lawful for the county courts and justices of the peace in Giles, Pulaski, Craig, Lee, Wise, Buchanan, Dickenson, Montgomery and Shenandoah counties to sentence certain criminals to work.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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 February 24, 1892, and by an act approved January 29, 1804, and by an act approved February 27, 184.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as school trustees.
An ACT to enlarge the criminal jurisdiction of the courts of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to allow a remedy by motion for judgment in the county court, after ten days’ notice, whenever a person is entitled to recover money or specific personal property, by action in the circuit court or by warrant before a justice of the peace, where the claim exceeds twenty dollars and does not exceed one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest.
An Act to require a record of money under control of courts and to provide for the assessment and payment of taxes thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3381 of the code of Virginia in relation to the trial of an issue out of chancery.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 129 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 28, 1890, entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the courts of the Seventeenth judicial circuit, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1892.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3062 of the code of Virginia, in reference to what causes and motions may be tried at a special term of a circuit court, and who may hold it.
An ACT to require each bank or banking institution in the state to report to the auditor of public accounts all money deposited in such bank or banking institution by order of any court.
An ACT to amend charter granted "Citizens exchange bank" by the judge of the circuit court of the city of Richmond, Va., January 13, 180s, and to give said bank also the powers of a trust, guarantee and safe deposit company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3669 of the code of Virginia in relation to attempts to poison and how punished.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4082 of the code of Virginia, as to payment of witnesses in misdemeanor cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2910 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, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 541 of the acts of assembly of 1893-94.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 35d section of the charter of the city of Alexandria
An ACT for the relief of the estate of John H. Knowles, deceased.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2562 code of Virginia in relation to Jurisdiction of partition of land.
An ACT for the removal of the disabilities of Samuel C. Harper, incurred by duelling.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subdivision second of section 5 of the code of Virginia with respect to the rules to be observed in the construction of statutes.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4093, code of Virginia, in regard to recognizances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 72 of the code of Virginia with reference to how vacancies in electoral boards to be filled in certain cases by the cuurt.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section 2054 of the code of Virginia in relation to limitation of actions
An ACT to amend and re-cnact sections 3999 and 5956 of the code of Virginia, in relation to process for the arrest of persons charged with crime.
An ACT to provide that the governor of the commonwealth shall have the right and authority, in certain cases, to pardon minors convicted and committed to the custody and control of the Prison association of Virginia, and to release said minors from such custody and control.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3063 of the code of Virginia, relating to the pay of Judge of one circuit sitting in another to hold special term.
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts for the First judicial circuit.
An ACT for the relief of Martha Willams, of Hanover county.
An ACT for the relief of John Quincey Adams, of Amherst county, Virginia,
An ACT to provide for the establishing, altering and building the public roads and bridges in the county of Shenandoah and for working and keeping the same in repair.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3951 and 3953 of the code of Virginia in relation to search warrants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 929 of the code of Virginia in relation to jail inspection.
An ACT providing that the lot of land belonging to the county of Henrico, located on the southwest corner of Twenty-second and Main streets, shall be declared to be a part of Henrico county, with power in the courts of said county to hold their sessions and transact their business at said place.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4084 of the code of Virginia in relation to the allowance of fees in criminal cases and the manner of certifying same,
An Act to amend and re-enact section 117 of the code of Virginia, with reference to how judges of election appointed, failing to attend, who to act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 573 of the code of Virginia touching the appeal and supersedeas allowed the state in cases of erroneous assessinents.
An ACT to provide for the better preservation of order at race-courses, fair-grounds, base-ball and foot-ball parks, and other places where athletic sports are held in the county of Henrico.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 886 of the code of Virginia relating to payment of costs and expenses in prosecutions for vagrancy.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3603 and 3604 of the code of Virginia relative to proceedings by interrogatories to ascertain the estate of debtor on which a fieri facias or a judgment may be alien, and to compel an examination of such debtor and his debtor or bailee and the delivery of the estate.