Judicial

1938
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-b of the Code of Virginia, in relation to substitute trial justices, so as to provide for the hearing of cases which both the trial justice and substitute trial justice are dis-qualified or unable to hear.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5825 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to limitation of actions prevented by defendant, and on foreign contracts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2578 of the Code of Virginia, relating to proceedings for enforcement of claims against the Commonwealth of Virginia
An ACT requiring notice to be given to cities and towns as to claims for damages for negligence.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 7 and 191i of an act entitled “An act to provide a new charter for the City of Richmond”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4998 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to appointment of committees for persons convicted of felony.
An ACT to define and prohibit unfair sales, to provide remedies and to impose penalties for the violation of the provisions thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-f of the Code of Virginia, relating to the jurisdiction of trial justices.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled “An act relating to the practice of law, and preventing persons, firms and corporations, not practicing attorneys, from appearing before any magistrate, civil or police justice, civil justice court, or any other court, to represent any claim or cause of any person, firm or corporation, unless the person, firm or corporation has a property interest in said claim or cause; preventing evasions of this act and prescribing penalties”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3518 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to pay of attorneys appointed to defend poor persons.
An ACT to create a State Board of Photographic Examiners; to provide for the appointment, removal, compensation, powers and duties of the members, agents and employees of the said Board; to provide for the examination and registration of persons desiring to practice photography and the licensing of persons, firms, corporations and associations engaging in the practice of photography in this State; to provide for the collection of certain fees for such examinations, registrations, and licenses, and to appropriate moneys derived therefrom; to prohibit certain practices in violation of this act; and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to authorize the superintendent ot the state penitentiary, upon certain conditions and in his discretion, to deliver to the custody of officers of other States, of the United States and of the District of Columbia, prisoners in his custody, for transportation to such other States or the District of Columbia for trial or as witnesses in criminal cases in the courts thereof; and to authorize said superintendent and his deputies to receive and retain in custody for trial or as witnesses in criminal cases in Virginia prisoners of said District, of other States, or of the United States, delivered to him by the officers thereof; and to provide for the custody of all such or similar prisoners while in transit in or through Virginia.
An ACT to provide that the State of Virginia may enter into a compact with any of the United States for mutual helpfulness in relation
An ACT to provide for the correction by the court of erroneous assessments of taxes and local levies against real estate in counties where there had been no general re-assessment of real estate since 1930 and no board of equalization of real estate assessments appointed since 1930.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4428 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to burning or destroying dwelling houses at night.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1017 of the Code of Virginia, relating to commissions to ascertain insanity, epilepsy and inebriety.
An ACT to prohibit simulation of warrants, processes, writs, notices of execution lien, and notices of motion for judgment, and prescribing penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3486 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to fees to be charged by the clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals; to whom cost of printing record is charged; and when case dismissed if cost of printing not paid.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of $220,000.00, or so much thereof as may be required, for the biennium beginning July 1, 1938, for the purpose of paying retirement compensation to judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and of other courts of record, and to members of the State Corporation Commission, who may retire, and to supplement other appropriations made for the purpose of paying salaries of such judges and of members of the said commission.
An ACT to validate substitutions of trustees under deeds recorded in Virginia heretofore made in the courts of Virginia without sufficient notice or without any notice to some one or more of the persons interested in the trusts of such deeds, and to validate acts done by such substituted trustees.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5374 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the commitment of estates to sheriffs, and sergeants.
An ACT prohibiting the entry by courts of judgments in certain cases where service of process or notice is accepted by another than the defendant, unless notice thereof shall have been mailed to such defendant.
An ACT providing for the adoption and enforcement by the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia of rules and regulations defining the practice of law, prescribing a code of ethics governing the professional conduct of attorneys at law and a code of judicial ethics, establishing practice and procedure for disciplining, suspending and disbarring attorneys at law, providing for the creation, government and conduct of the Virginia State Bar, prescribing fees to be paid for the administration of this act, and providing for the collection and disbursement thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4503 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to punishment for bribing, or offering to bribe commissioners, auditors, arbitrators, umpires or jurors.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Chapter 109 thereof 13 new sections numbered 2726 and 2726-a to 2726-1, both inclusive, vesting in Boards of Supervisors power to cause county buildings to be insured, to provide suitable rooms for county purposes and to determine what allowances payable out of county treasuries shall be made to sheriffs and clerks, and to repeal Sections 2726-m to 2726-y, both inclusive of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same matters.
An ACT to provide for the processioning of lands in the county
An ACT to amend Chapter 83 of the Virginia Code of 1936 (Michie) relating to the State Highway Commission and System, by adding thereto three new sections numbered 1969-e (2), 1969-e (3) and 1975-a (1), and to enact said three new sections into law, all of said sections relating to the State Highway Commission, its powers and duties, and the regulation of the use of the highways
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3422 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to unauthorized practice of law and penalties therefor, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to extend the time within which a person to whom license had been issued prior to March 15, 1918, to practice law in Virginia, 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”, approved February 17, 1920.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6069 of the Code of Virginia with reference to affidavits for orders of publication, and when and by whom such orders may be entered.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 96 and Section 200, as retofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to judges, clerks, registrars and commissioners of election.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Thornton Massie.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3484 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to fees of clerks of courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of an act entitled “An act to define a ‘mob’, and a ‘lynching’; to provide for the punishment of persons composing a ‘mob,’ the actions of which result in the injury or death of another person; to prescribe penalties therefor; to provide for the recovery -of damages therefor from any person or persons composing the mob; to prescribe the jurisdiction of courts in actions and prosecutions under the provisions of this act”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4989 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appeals in criminal cases, so as to authorize an appeal after a plea of guilty.
An ACT to provide a new ‘charter’ for the town of Round Hill; in
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Kate J. Foster.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-g of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to trial justices and clerks of trial justice courts, so as to authorize the appointment of deputy clerks and clerical assistants in certain cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3487 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers coroners and constables.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, and Section 8 as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An act to establish a corporation court for the city of Radford, in Montgomery county”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2, as heretofore amended,
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 16 of an act entitled ‘An act to provide a new charter for the city of Alexandria, Virginia”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4, 5 and 10 of Chapter 294 of the Acts of Assembly of 1849, entitled “An act to extend the limits of and provide for electing trustees for, the town of Marion in the county of Smyth, and vesting them with certain corporate powers”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2872 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to jails and accounts of jailers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5108 of the Code of Virginia, relating to orders of publication in certain divorce suits, so as to change the time when depositions may be commenced, and to validate certain divorces granted in cases where the defendant was proceeded against by order of publication.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of 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 recognizances, 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’
An ACT to require the sheriff and his deputies and all other officers of the county of Buchanan, authorized to make arrests, to wear uniforms or some insignia of office, while in performance of their duties, and to provide for forfeiture of office for failure to comply with such requirement.
An ACT to add a new section to Chapter Twenty-one of the Code of Virginia, to be numbered 322-b, which new section relates to the powers of the Governor to remove restrictions and penalties and to re-instate licenses and certificates of attorneys at law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6269 of the Code of Virginia, relating to sale and renting of property by special commissioner.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to authorize courts administering or liquidating the estates of insolvent banks or trust companies operating in Virginia, and upon petition of trustees engaged in the voluntary liquidation of the estates of such insolvents, to require creditors to act with diligence in obtaining satisfaction of claims allowed therein upon penalty of having such claims barred”
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Manassas, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Manassas, in Prince William county’
An ACT for the relief of Willie Brown, Josephus Brown, and the estate of Patrick Henry Brown.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5995 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to persons incompetent to serve as jurors at more than one term during any one year period, and where persons may not be compelled to serve.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5419 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to resignation by fiduciaries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3405, as heretofore amended, and Section 3406 of the Code of Virginia, relating to reports by clerks of certain courts of the business of such courts.

1940
An ACT to amend an act entitled ‘‘An act to incorporate the town of Franklin, Southampton county”, approved March 15, 1876, as heretofore amended, by adding thereto a new section to be designated as Section 20, providing for the appointment of a civil and police justice for said town, prescribing his powers and duties, providing for his compensation, and providing for the appointment of a substitute civil and police justice.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-f of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the jurisdiction of trial justices.
An ACT to levy a tax upon fuel used in internal combustion engines for the generation of power to propel motor vehicles
An ACT to provide for the creation of a Commission on reapportionment to assist the General Assembly in the reapportionment of the Commonwealth into Senatorial and House Districts, to prescribe the duties and functions of such commission, and to appropriate to the said commission the sum of $2,000, or so much thereof as shall be required, for expenses of the commission and the members thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6131 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the maturing of actions at law and suits in equity.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6152 of the Code of Virginia, relating to trial of claim of third party, to property distrained or evied ons 71
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled An act providing for the adoption and enforcement by the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia of rules and regulations defining the practice of law, prescribing a code of ethics governing the professional conduct of attorneys at law and a code of judicial ethics, establishing practice and procedure for disciplining, suspending and disbarring attorneys at law, providing for the creation, government and conduct of the Virginia State Bar, prescribing fees to be paid for the administration of this act, and providing for the collection and disbursement thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 683 and 684, as heretofore amended, 685, and 686 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compulsory school attendance, records and reports and the duties of certain officers relating thereto, and providing penalties for violations; and to further amend the said Code by adding thereto a new section numbered 686-a, providing for the enforcement of compulsory attendance laws and penalties for violations.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5904-g of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to fees and costs to be collected on cases tried by county courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6035 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the trial by certain justices, of claims of third parties to property levied on under certain executions or distress warrants, and to money and other personal estate subject to the lien of such executions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6096 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the filing of petitions by certain persons in pending chancery causes, so as to provide that such petitions may be filed without first obtaining leave of court.
An ACT to prescribe the compensation of clerks of courts, and city sergeants, in cities of this Commonwealth having a population of over sixty-five thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States census; to provide for the payment of such compensation and the expenses of office of such officers; to impose certain duties on the State Compensation Board; to provide for the appointment and compensation of jailors in such cities; to prescribe the powers and duties of such jailor, and to confer certain powers on the city manager in such cities in relation to the jail and jailor; and to repeal chapter 302 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 24, 1932, and all other acts and parts of acts in-consistent herewith to the extent of such inconsistency.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6217 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to issuance of summons for witnesses and to recognizances.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 298 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to continuance of cases where an officer or a member of the General Assembly is a party to such case, or attorney for a party thereto.
An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘An Act allowing cash deposits in lieu of recognizances with surety in criminal cases.”
An ACT to amend an act entitled ‘“‘An Act to provide a new charter for the town of Front Royal, Warren county, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.’’
An Act to amend Chapter 6 of an act entitled 'An Act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg.'
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5962 of the Code of Virginia, relating to recordation of court proceedings and to judges of courts signing court order books, so as to provide how such books may be signed when the judge of a court dies without having signed in the order books, all the orders or decrees endorsed for entry by him, and entered of record in said books.
An ACT to prescribe the jurisdiction and authority of police justices in cities containing not less than 100,000 nor more than 150,000 inhabitants, to provide for appeals from such police justices, and to provide that this act shall be supplemental to and not in derogation of existing law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 24 of an act entitled ‘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 2773-n 40 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to departments of law enforcement in certain counties adopting the County Manager form of organization and government.
An ACT to authorize and empower the heads of the several administrative departments, divisions, institutions and agencies of the State to cause, with the approval of the Governor, the records and papers of their respective departments, divisions, institutions and agencies to be photographed or micro-photographed and destroyed, under certain conditions to authorize the acquisition and use of certain facilities and equipment relating thereto, and to provide for the admissibility in evidence of such photographs, microphotographs and photographic and photostatic copies thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5 and 11 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, extra session, 1936-1937, approved December 18, 1936, as amended and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act, said sections relating to disqualifications for benefits, and to administration of said act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 61, as heretofore amended, of Chapter 342 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, said section relating to reckless driving.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-j of the Code of Virginia, relating to the return of papers by trial justices to clerk’s office, and issuing execution and abstracts of judgments.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1017 and 1020, of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to commissions on insanity, epilepsy, and inebriacy, and the commitment and transfer of such persons to certain institutions.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5428 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to examination, confirmation and recordation of the reports of Commissioners and the return of vouchers to fiduciaries.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, ceding to the United States certain jurisdiction over lands acquired for certain purposes.
An ACT to make the city of Fredericksburg a part of the 15th judicial circuit; to establish a circuit court for said city and prescribe the time for holding terms thereof; to make the judge of the 15th judicial circuit the judge of the said circuit court; to prescribe the jurisdiction of said circuit court; to transfer to said circuit all suits, actions, proceedings and matters pending in the corporation court; to provide for the clerk and other officers of said circuit court, and a Commonwealth’s attorney for said city; and to transfer to the clerk’s office of said circuit court and make parts of the records therein, all record books, papers and records of and in the clerk’s office of the corporation court; and to provide when this act shall be in force.
An ACT to fix the number of terms of the circuit courts of the twenty-fourth judicial circuit, and to designate the days upon which the same shall commence.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4960 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to compensation for officers in certain cases, so as to provide that a witness without the State, who is compelled to attend a court in this State whether for the Commonwealth or the accused, may be paid by the State.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5167 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to deeds of trusts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5888 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to judicial circuits.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5781 of the Code of Virginia, relating to insulting words.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘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 the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered Section 6508-a, to provide that trial justice, civil justice, civil and police justice, or police justice or the clerk of any such justice, may issue summonses to certain execution debtors and their debtors or bailers, to appear before such justices to answer interrogatories, and to prescribe the proceedings to be had thereon by such justices, and the disposition of property disclosed by such interrogatories.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 6555-b, prescribing the requirements for valid assignments of wages and salaries due or to become due from employers, and making certain partial assignments of wages and salaries unenforceable.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6466 of the Code of Virginia.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5445 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to unlawful entry and detainer.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6427 of the Code of Virginia relating to the recordation of memoranda of mechanic’s liens, and Section 6469 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the recordation and release of notices of lis pendens and attachment, so as to provide for the recordation of certain such memoranda and notices in the clerk’s office of the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond, Part II. [S B 34]
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6046 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to notices of motion in lieu of action at law; when notice to be returned to clerk’s office; rules applicable thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 27 of an act 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.”’
An ACT to provide that the Judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court for any city having a population of not less than 100,000 nor more than 150,000 shall be elected by the General Assembly; to provide for the compensation of such judges, to prohibit them from practicing law, and to prescribe the application of general law to such judges and courts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-a of the Code of Virginia relating to the appointment and qualification of trial justices, and of associate trial justices in certain counties
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4978 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to forfeited recognizances and proceedings thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3109-a of the Code of Virginia relating to the appointment, duties and compensation of clerks of civil and police justices’ courts, so as to provide for the appointment of deputy clerks for such courts and to prescribe their duties and provide for their aa re