Judicial

1932
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6015 of the Code of Virginie relating to jurisdiction of justices.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by enacting and incorporating therein, a new section to be designated as section 4952-a, providing that persons confined in jail until certain fines and/or costs are paid, may be released on bail, and fixing the liability of the sureties thereon.
An ACT allowing the costs of printing briefs to be taxed as costs in the supreme court of appeals of Virginia.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Scottsville.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and to repeal the existing charter of said city, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to simplify and prevent duplication of work and to reduce the cost of the preparation of a transcript of the record and proceedings to accompany a petition for a writ of error or appeal or supersedeas from or to the supreme court of appeals to or from any judgment, decree, or order of any court of record, and to provide for payment therefor
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6022 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved March 24, 1930, in relation to justices of the peace.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the taking and preservation of oral evidence in chancery causes
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 69 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5337 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2850 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appointment, terms of office and bonds of notaries public.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of the Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 21, 1918.
An ACT to revise, collate and codify into one act the general statutes of the Commonwealth relating to building and loan associations, which act shall constitute and be designated and cited as the Virginia building and loan association act, and to repeal all Code sections and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith, and to provide penalties for violations thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3393 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 define runners and cappers and prohibiting the solicitation of business by runners and cappers for attorneys at law; providing that contracts secured by them shall be void, and providing penalties for any violation of the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4428, 4430, 4431, 4432, 4433 and 4436 of the Code of Virginia, relating to arson and malicious burning of property, and the punishment therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 20, 28 and 46 of chapter 407 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1924, approved March 20, 1924, as heretofore amended, which chapter is an act concerning intoxicating liquors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 25 of chapter 407 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1924, approved March 20, 1924, concerning intoxicating liquors, as heretofore amended, the section here amended relating to driving while intoxicated.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 26 of chapter 473 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1924, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke, approved March 22, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 408 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to correction by the State corporation commission of certain erroneous assessments.
An ACT to create a lien in favor of hospitals for its reasonable charges for caring for persons injured in accidents, the giving of notice of such lien, the effect thereof and to provide for the adjudication of the claims made by hospitals against persons injured in accidents.
An ACT to authorize the clerk of the court of hustings for the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, to transcribe and consolidate the general indices to judgments in his office from 1858 to August 1, 1931, and to make said consolidated transcript a legal record of judgments docketed in his office.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5007 of the Code of Virginia, relating to male prisoners in the penitentiary.
An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the regular terms of the circuit courts in the twenty-seventh judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4953 of the Code of Virginia, relating to confinement in jail until fine and costs or costs, are paid.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled “an act to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of certain “securities” herein defined by requiring an inspection thereof, providing for such inspection, supervision and regulation of the business of any person, association, partnership, or corporation, engaged or intending to engage, whether as principal, broker or agent, in the sale of any such securities in the State of Virginia as may be necessary to prevent unfairness, imposition or fraud in the sale or disposition of said securities, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof,” approved March 23, 1918, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by enacting, and incorporating therein, a new section to be designated as section 1080-a, providing for the appointment of guardians, or committees, for persons mentally and physically incapacitated, but not feeble minded.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1698-a, 1698-b, 1698-c, 1698-d and 1698-e of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sale of hypnotic drugs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to trial justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 5 of article II of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Phoebus in Elizabeth City county, approved January 22, 1900, as heretofore amended, and to amend said act by adding thereto a new section numbered section 7.
An ACT to amend and re- enact section 5403 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the return by fiduciaries of inventories of personal property and real estate.
An ACT to provide for the letting of certain contracts to which the State of Virginia, or any department, institution or agency thereof is a party, upon the basis of competitive bids.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to permit the filing and trials of certain cross-claims in certain cases for torts, approved March 24, 1926, as amended by an act approved March 17, 1928.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 458 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, session of 1926, entitled an act to regulate the keeping and making entries in the order books of the courts of record, in this State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia relating to trial justices, as last amended by an act approved March 24, 1930
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6456 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved February 27, 1930, in relation to marginal releases of liens.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 274 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when justices and other officers may administer oaths and take
An ACT to provide for the relief of taxpayers from taxes and levies on lands assessed with fictitious mineral values; and from local levies on real estate assessed for taxation at a valuation grossly in excess of, and out of proportion to, the assessed value of real estate generally, in the same county, or city, for the same year, or years.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act concerning trustees, their qualification, sales made by trustees under order or decree of court, their compensation in such cases,” approved March 19, 1920, and to enlarge said act so as to validate sales, and deeds made in pursuance thereof, by trustees who were stockholders, officers or directors of corporations, under deeds of trust given to secure debts due to such corporations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5904-b, 5904-c, 5904-e, 5904-f and 5904-g of the Code of Virginia, which are in relation to county courts in counties having a density of population in excess of 500 inhabitants per square mile as shown by the last United States census; and to repeal section 5904-d of said Code relating to said courts.
An ACT to relieve counties of Virginia of, and to assist certain cities and towns in, the maintenance and improvement, including construction and reconstruction, of certain roads, causeways, streets, bridges, landings and wharves; to establish a secondary system of State highways; for such purpose to prescribe the rights, powers, duties, and authority of the local road authorities, the State department of highways, the State highway commission, and the State highway commissioner; to prohibit certain local levies; to appropriate and allocate funds for the purpose of this act; to provide for elections in counties for withdrawal from the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5758 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to public holidays.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less that 25,000 and more than twenty thousand 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 4228 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved March 18, 1926, in relation to the defenses of suicide and death by execution in actions on life insurance policies, and providing when such policies shall become incontestable, and as to certain ex-ceptions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6256 of the Code of Virginia, relating to non-suits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6509 and section 6510, as here-
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2698 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to bonds of officers.
An ACT to authorize the appointment of an assistant attorney for the Commonwealth for Roanoke county; to prescribe his powers and duties, and to provide for his compensation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4989 of the Code of Virginia, relating to right of appeal in certain cases.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by incorporating therein a new section to be designated 6383-a, providing for attachments on bill in chancery.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 2725-a, in relation to powers of boards of supervisors to require reports from and to inquire into official conduct of officers, and providing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1050, 1051, 1052 and 1053 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and section 1050-a of the Code of Virginia, all of said sections relating to appointment of committees and trustees for certain persons.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1045 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved March 19, 1920, relating to insane and feeble-minded persons.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled 'an act to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the probation officer of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county'
An ACT to permit commissioners of accounts of either the circuit or corporation courts in cities where the office of clerk of said courts is held by the same person to act as commissioner of accounts for either of said courts, in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1085 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to duties of courts when a person before it appears to be feeble-minded.
An ACT to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Appalachia, in the county of Wise,” approved March 1, 1906, by enacting, and incorporating therein, a new section to be designated as section 3-b, relating to the appointment of a police justice for said town.
An ACT to authorize any incorporated town in this State to provide for the election or appointment of a justice of the peace for such town, and to prescribe his powers and duties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6172 of the Code of Virginia, relating to striking cases from court docket.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3424 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to attorneys-at-law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3482 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of commissioners in chancery.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3116 of the Code of Virginia, relating to proceedings upon interrogatories before civil justice, and civil and police justice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3488 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fee of officer for making return on executions when no levy or forthcoming bond taken.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Winchester and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amendatory thereof, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Winchester.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3098 of the Code of Virginia in relation to qualifications of civil and police justices.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled “an act to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of every county which alone constitutes a judicial circuit and which adjoins a city containing more than 100,000 inhabitants to fix the salary of the justice of the juvenile and domestic relations court of such county”
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1614 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1614-a, regulating the practice of medicine.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6471 of the Code of Virginia relating to the lien of a judgment against purchaser for valuable consideration
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5429 of the Code of Virginia, relating to confirmation of reports of fiduciaries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10, 11 and 15 of an act entitled 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, approved, respectively, February 29, 1892, February 24, 1896, March 3, 1898, January 13, 1900, January 30, 1900, February 23, 1901, the two acts of May 15, 1903, March 2, 1914, March 9, 1916, and the acts of December 26, 1903, which became a law without the governor’s signature; and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, so far as they relate to the city of Hampton, approved March 16, 1920, section 15, of which as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5247 and 5249 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the probate of wills and to the appointment of executors, et cetera, both sections having been heretofore amended.

1933es
An ACT to declare the courthouse square, on which is located the courthouse, clerk’s office, jail and other public buildings of Richmond county, in the village of Warsaw, Virginia, a part of each of the several magisterial districts of the county of Richmond, for the purpose of the trial of civil and criminal warrants by the justices of the peace of Richmond county, and the granting of bail by the bail commissioner thereat.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3514 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when no fees are allowed officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to trial justices and their jurisdiction.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5431 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to securities in which fiduciaries may invest or exchange.
An ACT to encourage State and national industrial recovery by co-operating with the national government in fostering fair competition; and to that end to authorize the utilization of State and local officers and employees by the President of the United States; to prescribe the force and effect in Virginia of codes of fair competition, agreements and licenses, approved, prescribed or issued under an act of the Congress of the United States, known as the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933; and to prescribe penalties for violations of any such code, agreement or license.

1934
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1056 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Quantico in the county of Prince William.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3413 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the Board of Law Examiners and qualifications and examination of applicants for membership to the bar.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 133 thereof a new section numbered 3425-a prohibiting actions for words used in proceedings and investigations as to the professional conduct of attorneys
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 378 of the Code of Virginia, 1930, concerning the office of the Attorney General.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3424 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to attorneys at law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4786 of the Code of Virginia, relating to terms of imprisonment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 5, and section 2 of chapter 10, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore amended, relating to the civil justice and justices of the peace for said city.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6092 of the Code of Virginia, relating to statements of contributory negligence.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4387 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the vacating of the appointment of commissioners, the appointment of other commissioners, the payment of amounts awarded, and the dismissal of the proceedings on motion of either party, with costs and attorneys fees against the condemning party, in proceedings instituted for the purpose of exercising the right of eminent domain.
An ACT for the relief of O. G. Jackson.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5904-e of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to criminal and civil proceedings and rules of practice in county courts.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 133 thereof a new section numbered 3424-a, providing in what courts disbarment and suspension proceedings against attorneys at law may be had and how services may be had.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3011 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the powers and authority of mayors of towns and members of town councils.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4696 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the use of opium, marihuana, loco weed, and other sedative, narcotic and hypnotic drugs, chemicals and substances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4767 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to how attempts to commit offenses punished.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5935 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the court of law and chancery of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 375 of the Code of Virginia of 1930, concerning the duties of the Attorney General.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, relating to exemptions from jury service.
An ACT to reimburse Jessie L. Randolph for money illegally paid into the treasury of the Commonwealth of Virginia on account of erroneous or illegal assessment of taxes against her for the years nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6028 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appeals of cases from justices courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4407 of the Code of Virginia, relating to kidnapping.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3433 of the Code of Virginia of 1930, concerning the salary and mileage of the Attorney General, his assistants, secretaries and stenographers and contingent expenses of his office.