Judicial

1920
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3481 and 3507 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3394 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 200 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6310 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to confer on circuit courts of counties jurisdiction to amend legislative charters of towns.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3468 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2421 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4813 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend section 6105 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the extradition of persons of unsound mind, and to make uniform the laws of the States which enact it
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2244 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT concerning slander and libel and prescribing the punish-
An ACT to provide how a charter of a town granted by a court may be annulled and repealed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2543 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5019 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 8 and 15 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Banister in the county of Halifax, epproved May 16, 1887, as heretofore amended and to repeal section 10 of said act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3846 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4928 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to compensation and mileage of jurors in criminal cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5889 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend section 4895 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to validate acknowledgements heretofore taken by justices of the peace, and mayors of cities or towns or police justices who by virtue of their offices had the powers and authority of justices of the peace, where such justices or mayors, or police justices are designated in the perieneaes of acknowledgement as police justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5333 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5412 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5893 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1921, and the 28th day of February, 1922.
An ACT to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, formerly the town of Hampton, approved May 23, 1887, and the several acts amendatory thereof...
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3194 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the conveyance by the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia of its property, real and personal, located in the county of Hanover, to the State of Virginia, that the State may assume control, operation and management of the same in accordance with the provisions of the charter of said association.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5986 and 5988 of the Code
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3488 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2958 of the Code of Virginia in relation to annexation of territory by cities or towns.
An ACT prescribing the time of holding the regular terms of court in the twenty-eighth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 136 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT. to amend and re-enact section 3465 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 9 of an act entitled an act to provide for the recordation of title to motor vehicles and the identification of the same; to regulate the purchase, sale, storage and repair of motor vehicles; declaring the theft of motor vehicles to be a felony and to prescribe penalties for violations of the act.
An ACT to extend the time within which a person to whom license had been issued prior to March 14, 1918, to practice law in Virgniia, but who had been prevented from qualifying and commencing said practice within two years after the granting of said license by his entry into the military or naval service of the United States may qualify and commence said practice without further examination.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3905 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to validate all acts of notaries public, commissioners in chancery and commissioners of accounts who, since January 13, 1920, may have held certain other offices.
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 permitting the creation of the office of public defender in cities having a population of fifty thousand or more, and providing for their appointment and defining their power and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4853 of the Code in relation to grand juries.
An ACT to enlarge and define the power and the jurisdiction of police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1029 of the Code of Virginia in relation to testing the legality of detention of persons adjudged insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4549 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5888 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to provide for furnishing the secretary and treasurer of the board of bar examiners, the State tax board, its counsel and executive
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5887-of the Code of Virginia; and to amend and re-enact section 5888 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 29, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3408 of the Code of Virginia, prescribing who may practice law in this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4930 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2389 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6348 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal section 6349 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appeals and writs of error.
An ACT to authorize boards of supervisors to fell, or fell and remove, trees along public highways, and to keep the lands along such highways cleared of growing trees; also providing for procedure under, this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section five thousand nine hundred and eleven of the Code of Virginia, providing for the jurisdiction of circuit courts in cities which have, since the present Constitution went into effect, undergone transition from cities of the second class to the first class.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2551 of the Code oT en
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3388 of the Code of Virginia, which provides for clerks’ offices to be open certain days, records, etc., open to inspection; copies authorized.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5412 of the Code in reference to books and stationery furnished commissioners and how paid for.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3210 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3107 of the Code of Virginia, [H B 123]
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county constituting a separate judicial circuit to supplement the fees of any constable therein by the payment of a salary.
An ACT validating certificates of acknowledgment taken by notaries public who served in the army, navy, or marine corps of the United States during the late war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
An ACT providing that any newspaper published in a city adjoining or wholly or partly within the geographical limits of any county shall be deemed to be published in such county or counties as well as in eo
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5388 and 5389 of the Code
An ACT to permit females to qualify, give bond and act as deputy clerks in all courts of this Commonwealth; and to validate certain acts heretofore performed by females acting as such deputy clerks.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3847 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the town of Coeburn, in the county of Wise, Virginia, to issue bonds not exceeding the sum of eighty thousand dollars, for the purpose of building and maintaining a sewerage and water system or either, as the council may determine; to allow the council of said town to issue bonds if the same shall be authorized by a majority of the qualified voters, and to levy and collect a special tax to pay the interest thereon, and create a sinking fund for the redemption thereof at maturity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Virginia.

1922
An ACT to regulate the payment and adjustment by common carriers of claims for loss or damage in transit, for storage, demurrage, and car service, and to permit evidence to be shown by affidavits in the trial of certain cases; and to repeal chapter 291 of Acts 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the payment out of the State treasury of the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the counties and cities of the State certain fees in felony and misdemeanor cases, and to fix the maximum amount that the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the respective counties and cities of the State shall be paid in fees out of the State treasury, and to fix for them and to provide for the taxing and payment of certain fees in scire facias and other proceedings upon forfeited recognizances, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 22, 1916, and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 16, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6296 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3418 of the Code of Virginia in regard to the appointment of commissioners to execute deeds, approved March 16, 1918.
An ACT to require commitment to the State board of charities and corrections of certain misdemeanants on indeterminate sentences; and to provide what disposition said board may make of such persons.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1905 to 1922, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT prescribing the jurisdiction of corporation courts in cities in which there are two corporation courts and providing for the transfer of certain cases from one court to the other.
An ACT to provide that no costs or fees shall be taxed for, or in any way allowed to, an attorney for the Commonwealth in any case unless he, or some one for him, actually appears and prosecutes the proceedings before the court.
An ACT to prescribe the number of witnesses to be paid for out of the treasury of Virginia in criminal cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6063 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to enlarge and define the power and jurisdiction of police justices, justices of juvenile and domestic relations courts, and civil and police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation therefor, and to repeal an act entitled an act to enlarge and define the power and jurisdiction of police justices to admit persons to bail and fixing the compensation therefor, approved February 17, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1945 to 1953, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and to add six new sections to the said Code, to be numbered 1951a, 1951b, 1951c, 1951d, 1951e, and 1951f.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2075 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4804 and 4805 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3780, as heretofore amended, 3781, 3786, 3788, 3810, as heretofore amended, 3820, 3822, 3851, 3854, 3872 and 3876, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 24, 1920, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, so as to provide that said town may have a police justice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 14, 2134, 27, 32, 35, 41, 95, 57, 63, 73 of 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 prosecution 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, approved March 19, 1918, as heretofore amended, and to add to said act the following new sections, to be numbered sections 5%, 51%, 5%, 21%, 32%, 35%, 55-f, 57%4, 57%4-a, 70%4, 77, 78, respectively, and to be properly inserted serially as numbered in said act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to provide for the compulsory education of children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide (in certain cases) for the compulsory attendance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide (in certain cases) for the compulsory attendance of children between the ages of eight and twelve years upon the public schools of Virginia, and providing penalties for failure, and designating the manner of collecting such penalties, approved March 14, 1908, approved March 27, 1918.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1920.
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 amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved February 25, 1920.
An ACT requiring every power of attorney to confess judgment to be signed and acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1053 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6046 of the Code of Virginia.
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 amend an act approved March 20, 1920, entitled an act for the protection of patients and inmates of State hospitals and colonies for the insane, epileptic and feeble-minded from improper and unlawful marriages and providing punishment for violation of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5105 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to authorize the governor, by and with the advice of the attorney general, to institute and prosecute actions, suits, motions and other proceedings, in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in all cases not provided for by existing law.
An ACT prescribing the number of times of commencement of the regular terms of court of the eighth judicial circuit.
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 to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to create the city of Hopewell, in the county of Prince George; to provide temporary and permanent officers for its organization and management and to authorize the assessment and collection of revenue necessary for the permanent improvement and government of said city, approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by an act approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5867 and 5869 of the Code