Judicial

1912
An ACT to prescribe in what cases a justice of the peace shall not have jurisdiction in a suit or warrant.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3058 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the General Assembly, approved on the 26th day of December, 1903, so as to give to courts of equity jurisdiction to remove clouds from title to real estate where the complainant is not in possession, or where the complainant has the equitable right to the legal title.
An ACT concerning coal mines and safety of employees, creating a department and inspector of mines under the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics.
An ACT to provide for the indexing of deeds and other records in ledgerized general index books.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 824 of the Code of Virginia relating to the approval of title to real estate for public uses.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3397 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to special commissioners of sale.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing seventy thousand inhabitants: or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 38, 42, 45, 47, 53, 54, 55, 60, 79, 80, 81, 82, 87, 88, 99, 101, of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled an aet to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
An ACT to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the State of Virginia, by means of certificates of births and deaths, and burial or removal permits; to require prompt returns to the bureau of vital statistics at the capital of the State, as required to be established by the State board of health; to insure the thorough organization and efficiency of the registration of vital statistics throughout the State; to provide certain penalties; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 365 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia of 1910, entitled ‘an act to authorize recitals in deedg of conveyance executed prior to April, 1865, that the deed from the patentee of the land conveyed to or from his vendees was admitted to record in the general couet at Richmond, Virginia, or Frankfort, Kentucky, and authenticated copies of such original deeds to be received as prima facie evidence of the execution of the said deed in suits and actions where the title to the land purported to be conveyed is involved.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1906, entitled “an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony,” as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the court in which he is tried to sentence certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads instead of confinement in the penitentiary for the commission of felony approved February 27, 1906.
An ACT to provide how further proceedings are to be had on the judgment of a justice of the peace, or of the mayor of a corporation, from which an appeal has been allowed when the appeal is dismissed.
An ACT fixing the salaries of judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, whose terms of office commence on or after the first day of February, 1915.
An ACT relative to payment and custody of deposits in two or more names.
An ACT to incorporate the town of Cedar Bluff, in Tazewell county, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled 'An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax.'
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2920 of the Code of Virginia in reference to limitations of personal actions.
An ACT to amend certain sections, repeal certain sections of and to add certain new sections to, chapter 21, Code of Virginia, being sections 300 to 382, inclusive, providing for the public defense
An ACT in relation to proceedings against and the liquidation of delinquent insurance corporations.
An ACT providing for remedy by motion after thirty days’ notice for any tort; when notice to be returned to clerk’s office; provision to prevent discontinuance of the motion.
An ACT to establish on the farm of the Virginia State epileptic colony, the Virginia colony for the feeble minded and to provide for the commitment of feeble minded persons to such colony.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by act of assembly, 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, 1894, and by an act approved February 27, 1894, and by an act approved February 12, 1898, and by an act approved February 15, 1901, and by an act approved March 15, 1904, and by an act approved February 29, 1908, and by an act approved February 14, 1910, in relation to appointment of commissioners in chancery.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3737 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to “forgery, uttering, etc., and how punished.”
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 7, 1835, providing a charter for the town of Bridgewater, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1884, and as amended by an act approved August 26, 1884, and as further amended by an act approved February 16, 1901, and all other acts heretofore passed amendatory of said charter.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 541 of the acts-of the general assembly, session 1897.8, relating to the lot in the city of Richmond belonging to Henrico county, on which the courthouse of said county is situated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act providing for detention or commitment of minors under seventeen years of age for certain offenses not in jails or penitentiaries, placing them in suitable homes and institutions under certain circumstances; when they can and cannot be sent to jail; allowing them to be released on probation; the approval of the State board of charities and corrections under certain contingencies; penalties for removing any child committed hereunder or violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals; appointment of probation officers and outlining their duties; and declaring an emergency
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled "an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county," approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act entitled '"an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, approved March the 9th, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereof," approved February the 29th, 1892, as further amended by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county, approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, approved March 9, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereof, approved February 29, 1892, and to add an independent section and power in the town council of said town to negotiate a loan not to exceed $5,000.00," approved March 5, 1896.
An ACT to amend and re-enact subdivision 25 of an act entitled "An act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain"
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2965 of the Code of Virginia, with reference to the direction and return of an attachment, as amended by acts approved January 30, 1894, February 27, 1894, and December 10, 1908, by adding a provision requiring the payment within thirty days, under the penalty of dismissal, of the proper writ tax in case of an attachment for an amount exceeding twenty dollars returned to a circuit or city court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, providing for recovery by motion after fifteen days’ notice on contracts to recover money or to recover damages: when notice to be returned to clerk’s office; provision to prevent discontinuance of motion.
An ACT to authorize the ascertainment and designation of the boundary line of real estate.
An ACT to pay John A. Bailey seventy-five dollars, being the amount of a judgment rendered by the circuit court of the city of Richmond in favor of John A. Bailey, and against the Commonwealth of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to pay certain costs incurred in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.
An ACT to require the clerks of the Supreme Court of Appeals, at its various places of session, to mail to the law librarian of the University of Virginia copies of all printed briefs and records filed in said court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section three thousand and fifty-seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and also to amend and re-enact section three thousand and fifty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903, entitled an act to repeal sections, three thousand and sixty-three, three thousand and sixty-five, three thousand and sixty-six, three thousand and sixty-seven, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections three thousand fifty-six, three thousand and fifty-seven, three thousand and fifty-eight, three thousand and fifty-nine, three thousand and sixty and three thousand and sixty-two of the Code, as heretofore amended, and as further amended by an act approved February 23, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, as to the times for holding regular terms of the courts in the several circuits, and giving jurisdiction to courts during recess, whether adjourned for the purpose of opening or holding another term, or part or portion there or otherwise, which the judges of the circuit courts now have in vacation, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and as further amended by an act approved February 26, 1910.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively on the 28th day of February, 1913, and the 28th day of February, 1914
An ACT providing the manner in which cities and towns of this commonwealth may obtain leave to erect a dam in or across a water course, and prescribing the procedure to be had in connection therewith.
An ACT in relation to the hustings court, part two, of the city of Richmond.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 58 of the Acts of 1889 and 1890, approved February 11, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, entitled an act to provide for the appointment of assistant commissioners of accounts and to define their duties and powers.

1914
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 9, in relation to a civil and police justice, providing for his election or appointment and qualification, describing his powers, duties, jurisdiction, term of office and compensation, and repealing section 7 of chapter 2 of said city charter, approved March 12, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2942 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how and when warrant tried and judgment given, and in relation to how a justice may associate justices with him, and whose opinion to prevail, as amended by an act approved March 8, 1904.
An ACT to compensate R. Gordon Finney, trial justice for Alexandria county, Va., for services rendered as such trial justice under the act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 28, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section-i of section 3059 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, has heretofore amended.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of sixteen dollars and fifteen cents ($16.15) to pay C. C. Cochran, deputy United States clerk, for fees due him for services rendered in the case of the Commonwealth against Wick Ison.
An ACT to provide for the payment of compensation to the counsel employed on behalf of the State by the governor and attorney general to prosecute Floyd Allen and others, charged with the murder of the judge of the circuit court of Carroll county, Virginia, and of certain officers and a juror in attendance upon said court, on the 14th day of March 1912, and for the payment of compensation to counsel employed by the judge presiding at the trials to defend certain of the prisoners unable to employ counsel.
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 incorporate the town of Mendota in Washington county, Virginia.
An ACT to authorize and require the auditor of public accounts to pay to the commission of fisheries the fines of $100.00 each imposed by the circuit court for the county of Accomac upon Edward A. George and John R. Middleton, which were improperly paid over to the said auditor and by him carried into the literary fund.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 10, 15, and 18 of an act entitled an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain, approved January 18th, 1904, and to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of the same act, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 16th, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice
An Act to provide in cities containing 10,000 inhabitants and less than 45,000 inhabitants, for the election of a special justice of the peace to be known as the civil and police justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties, to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil and police justice, and to abolish the office of police justice in said cities and towns and transfer the jurisdiction of such police justices in said cities to such civil and police justices.
An ACT for the relief of J. W. Gordon, of Augusta county, Virginia, who was convicted of a felony in the courts of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of the same, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and to repeal an act entitled an act to define dentistry, to regulate the practice of same, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act, approved March 14, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3191, chapter 154, of the Code, as amended by an act in force on and after February 2, 1892, and by an act in force on and after July 1, 1896, and by an act approved March 14, 1910, relating to how a person is licensed to practice law in the State of Virginia.
An ACT appropriating $1,078 to the county of Wythe to reimburse the county for amount paid the judge sent by the governor to preside in the trial of the cases growing out of the Hillsville murders.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia
An Act regulating contracts of surety between common carriers and their employees and sureties upon such contracts, and imposing penalties for violations of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6, 1887; April 28, 1887; May 14, 1887; February 14, 1900; February 21, 1900; February 26, 1900; February 2, 1901; February 15, 1901; March 15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April 6, 1887; February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day of January, 1906.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1682 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 7, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910, in relation to the admission to the State hospitals of insane persons charged with or indicted for crime, etc., etc., and providing for examination into the sanity of the defendant by experts in insanity by order of the court, etc., ete.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-sections E, T and Z, of section 3059 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3211 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1912.
An ACT to re-enact and amend clause 3 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to establish a court of law and chancery for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, which was approved March 10, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3057 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 26, 1903,
An ACT to amend and reenact an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Chatham, in Pittsylvania county, approved April 24, 1874, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and reenact the charter of the town of Chatham, approved February 21, 1882, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and reenact section 4 of the charter of the town of Chatham, approved March 16, 1908.
An Act making the public square in the city of Winchester part of the several magisterial districts of the county of Frederick for the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justice of the peace of the county of Frederick.
An ACT to submit to the qualified electors of the city of Charlottesville, as to the abolition of the corporation court of said city, as provided in section 98 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved March 3, 1898, and April 2, 1902, in relation to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, and constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section or sub-section 4 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of assembly, approved March 12, 1904, relating to official receipts for fines, approved March 14, 1906, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3535 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3533 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1912, in relation to when certain officers not to be paid, fees in criminal cases.
An ACT defining the territorial jurisdiction of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, part II, as a court of probate and registry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3525 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 11, 1904, entitled an act to repeal so much of an act approved December 31, 1903, as repeals section 3525 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact section 3525 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to simplify and expedite the administration of justice in this State by the elimination of useless technicalities and vexatious delays and permitting amendments under certain conditions in causes hereafter instituted.
An ACT defining the territorial jurisdiction of the chancery court of the city of Richmond as a court of probate and registry.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4025 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by act approved March 11, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4025 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, 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 reenact an act entitled an act to promote the public health, convenience, and welfare by leveeing, ditching, and draining the wet, swamp, and overflowed lands of the State, and providing for the establishment of levee or drainage districts for the purpose of enlarging or changing any natural water courses, and for digging ditches, or canals, for securing better drainage, or providing better outlets for drainage, for building levees or embankments, and installing tide gates or pumping plants for the reclamation of overflowed lands, and prescribing a method for so doing, and providing for the assessment and collection of the cost and expenses of the same, and issuing and selling bonds therefor, and for the care and maintenance of such improvements when constructed,
An ACT to provide for the revision, codification and indexing, with suitable marginal citations and references, of the statute law of Virginia; for the printing, publication and disposition thereof; to appoint commissioners therefor and fix their compensation; to provide for the necessary clerical assistants to said commissioners; and to appropriate the necessary funds for said work.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4049 of the Code, as amended and re-enacted by act approved January 18, 1888, known as chapter 15, acts of assembly, 1887-’88.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11, 12, and 63 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor.
An ACT for the creation and maintenance of a legislative reference bureau.
An ACT to provide that a party to any action at law or suit in equity shall not ba held as waiving his rights to object and except to the ruling of the court where a demurrer to his pleading has been sustained, and he has amended, as the result of such ruling.
An ACT to establish on the land of the Central State hospital, in the county of Dinwiddie, Virginia, the Central State colony for the feeble-minded, and to provide for the commitment of feeble-minded persons to such colony, and for the examination and furloughing of such persons.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the 2 fiscal years
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3530 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 26, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, relative to the fees of justices in criminal cases, payable out of the treasury of the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1906, incorporating the town of Tappahannock, in the county of Essex.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 3 of an act concerning public service corporations
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 14, of acts 1910, en- titled an act in relation to certain proper sanitary arrangements to be provided in factories, workshops, mercantile establishments or offices, and imposing penalties for failure to provide such arrangements
An ACT to amend section 3470 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, relating to bonds of appellants or petitioners.
An ACT defining the effect as constructive notice territorially
An ACT to amend and reenact section 246 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the custody, disposal and sale of published reports of the decisions of the supreme court of appeals.
An ACT to provide compensation for judges of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia on their retirement from the bench after a service of 12 consecutive years and upon attaining the age of 70 years.

1915
An ACT to appropriate the sum of ninety thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the amount authorized by law to be paid in connection with the assessment of real estate throughout the Commonwealth, required by law to be made during the year 1915, and to appropriate the sum of twenty-seven hundred dollars as well as any other sum that may be necessary to pay the compensation of the retired judge or any retiring judges of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia, in pursuance of the provisions of an act to provide compensation for judges of the supreme court of appeals on their retirement from the bench after a service of twelve consecutive years and upon attaining the age of seventy years.
An ACT to authorize the appointment of three additional commissioners in chancery for the circuit court of Wise county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide in cities containing 10,000 inhabitants and less than 45,000 inhabitants, fur the election of a special justice of the peace to be known as the civil and police justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties, to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil and police justice, and to abolish the office of police justice in said cities and towns and transfer the jurisdiction of such justices in said cities to such civil and police justices, approved March 20, 1914.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 459, 460 and 461 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.
An ACT for the relief of Henry Roach of Charlotte county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter V of an act approved January 29, 1896, entitled an act to consolidate in one act all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to create a new charter for said city.
An ACT to declare certain cities to be parts of the 8th, 15th 17th, 18th, 20th and 28rd judicial circuits for certain purposes.