Marriage
| An Act to amend and reenact § 55-275 of the Code of 1950 in relation to computation of contingent rights of curtesy and dower, so as to correct an example therein given. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 33-1738.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to free passage over certain toll bridges and ferries. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 64-23 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain rights of certain survivors in estates of decedents. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding three new sections, numbered 26-7.1 through 26-7.8, to provide that by executing the bond required of him any one who qualifies in a court or clerk’s office of this State as personal representative of a decedent, guardian, curator, committee, trustee or receiver, and the surety on such bond shall be deemed to have designated the clerk of the court in which he qualifies, and his successor in office, as a person on whom service of any notice, process or rule issuing from a court of this State or a commissioner of such court may be executed whenever the said person can not be found and served within the State of Virginia after the exercise of due diligence. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 46-255 of the Code of Virginia, relating to vehicles stopping or yielding right of way before entering Highway System. |
| An Act to amend and renact § 18-17, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to appointment of conservators of the peace. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-107 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers of courts to make certain decrees upon decreeing a divorce or the dissolution of a marriage. |
| An Act to provide for the continuation of certain agency powers under certain circumstances. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 64-1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to intestate succession. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 18-82 of the Code of Virginia, relating to adultery and fornication; incest. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 6-55.1 to provide for vesting of joint bank deposits of husband and wife upon death of either spouse or divorce. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-348 and 63-851, as amended, and 63-356.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to requirements for bringing petition for adoption, how consent for adoption given and adoption by certain spouses. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 64-88.1, providing for the commutation of widows’ dower estates in real property. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.28, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the jurisdiction of juvenile and domestic relations courts. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the filing of physician’s statement and the requirement of a serological test as prerequisites to the issuance of a marriage license. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 20-100 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the filing of certificates evidencing marriage with bills for divorce. |
| An Act to permit the Cities of Hampton, Newport News and Warwick, acting pursuant to Section 15-220 et seq. of the Code of Virginia, 1950, and Acts Amendatory thereto, to incorporate in the provisions of the agreement providing for consolidation of all three cities certain optional provisions which may be set forth in whole or in part in any agreement submitted in a referendum on consolidation of all three cities, and to provide for the provisions which may be included |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 8-170 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compromise of claims for personal injury to infants or insane persons. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 58-105, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to individual income tax returns. |
| AN ACT to repeal § 64-58 of the Code of Virginia, which provides that marriage shall operate to revoke a will previously made. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 55-106.1, providing for the recording and indexing of certain documents showing changes of names. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-288, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the testimony of husband and wife in criminal cases. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 20-14.1, to provide that marriage licenses shall constitute authority for only sixty days from date of issuance for the solemnization of marriage ceremonies, to provide that the expiration dates of marriage licenses be placed on the face thereof, and to provide for the issuance of successive marriage licenses. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-61.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the support of children of unwed parents by the father of such children. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-97 of the Code of Virginia, relating to domicile and residence requirement to maintain suits for annulling a marriage or for divorce, |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-91, as amended, Code of Virginia relating to grounds for divorce from the bond of matrimony. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-54 and 8-76, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to serving notices in a sutt for annulling a marriage or for divorce. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 65-66 of the Code of Virginia, relating to termination of dependency in workmen’s compensation cases. |
| An Act to revise, rearrange, amend and recodify the general laws of Virginia relating to crimes and offenses generally; to that end to repeal Title 18 of the Code of Virginia, which title includes Chapters 1 to 11 and §§ 18-1 to 18-366, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, as amended, which title relates to crimes and offenses generally; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto in lieu of the foregoing title, chapters and sections of the Code repealed by this act a new title numbered 18.1, which title includes eight new chapters numbered 1 to 8, both inclusive, and new sections numbered §§ 18.1-1 to 18.1-429, both inclusive, relating to crimes and offenses generally; to prescribe when such revision and recodification shall become effective; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-48 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the minimum age of marriage with the consent of one’s parents. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-158 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jurisdiction of juvenile courts. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-118, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to prohibition against remarriage on dissolution of bond of matrimony. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 3.02, 4.01 as amended, 4.12, 4.17, 6.02 as amended, 6.09, 6.19, 17.02, 17.06, 17.07, 17.08, 17.18, 19.01 as amended, 19.02, 19.08, 19.04, 19.05, 19.06, 19.07 as amended, 19.08, 19.09, 19.10, 19.12, 19. 18 and 20. 02 as amended, of Chap. 328 of the Acts of Assembly 'of 1950, approved April 4, 1950, which provided a charter for the city of Falls Church, the sections relating to nomination of candidates for council; composition of council; certain referenda; procedure concerning charter amendments; submission of budgets and hearings thereon; composition and certain functions and duties of the planning commission; adoption of master plan; district boundaries; municipal courts and judges and officers thereof and election of the school board. |
| An Act to revise, rearrange, amend and recodify the laws of Virginia relating to vital statistics |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 8-288, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the testimony of husband and wife in criminal cases. |
| Proposing an amendment to Section 30 of the Constitution of Virginia. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-107, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of courts to make certain decrees in divorces and dissolution of marriages. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-857, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to procedure and conditions for issuing operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses to certain persons. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-118, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to prohibition against remarriage on dissolution of bond of matrimony. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-28 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the authorization of ministers to perform marriage ceremonies, and bond required. |
| An Act to authorize the performance by physicians and surgeons of certain operations upon the reproductive organs of certain persons; to prescribe the consent which shall be required to be given for the performance of such operations, the time within which the same may be performed, and the conditions which shall be complied with; and to provide for exemption from liability for the nonnegligent performance of such operations. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 68-848.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to adoptions. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 19.1-227 through 19.1-231, 19.1-284 and 19.1-289 of the Code of Virginia, relating to persons charged with crime who are, or are suspected of being, insane or feeble-minded; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 19.1-280.1, to provide for a commission to inquire into the mental condition of such persons under certain conditions. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 20-45 and 20-47 of the Code of Virginia relating to voidance of certain prohibited marriages and prohibiting marriages with certain patients in State mental institutions |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2.04, 4.08, 6.07, 7.05, 9.11, 9.12, 10.02, 13.03, 14.03 and 15.10, as severally amended, of Chapter 536 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, as amended, which Chapter provided the charter for the city of Alexandria, the sections relating to powers of the City Board of Review of real estate assessments, appropriation and tax ordinances, form of bonds, duties of city planning commission concerning zoning, powers of council in relation to zoning, vacancies on council, alternative condemnation procedures, powers and duties of city collector, and school board; and to further amend Chap 536 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, by adding a section numbered 5.28 providing for a deputy city treasurer. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 68-848, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to requirements for bringing petitions for adoption. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-46, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to marriage of habitual criminals, insane persons, and mental defectives. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-91, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to grounds of divorce from the bond of matrimony. |
| An Act to amend chapter 540 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950 which provided a new Charter for the town of Haymarket, by adding in Article III thereof a section numbered 2, to confer on the trial justice of the town certain additional jurisdiction. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 20-88.1, providing for transfer of certain cases between courts, in certain instances. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 20-45, 20-46 and 87-281, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to marriage of habitual criminals, insane persons, and mental defectives; sexual sterilization of epileptics and others. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-54, as amended, and 20-99, of the Code of Virginia, relating to how notice served in annulment or divorce cases; how divorce or annulment suits instituted and conducted, so as to provide an alternative method for serving certain notices. |
| An Act to revise, rearrange, amend and recodify the general laws of Virginia relating to wills and decedents’ estates; to that end to repeal Title 64 of the Code of Virginia, which title includes Chapters 1 to 7 and §§ 64-1 to 64-176, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, as amended, which title relates to wills and decedents’ estates; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto in lieu of the foregoing title, chapters and sections of the Code repealed by this act a new title numbered 64.1, which title includes new chapters numbered 1 to 7, both inclusive, and new sections numbered 64.1-1 to 64.1-187, both inclusive, relating to wills and decedents’ estates; and to prescribe when such revision and recodification shall become effective. |
| An Act to abolish causes of action for alienation of affection, breach of promise, criminal conversation and to provide that knowingly causing or contributing to the disruption of a marital relationship shall constitute a misdemeanor; punishment therefor and jurisdiction thereof. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 82-428 of the Code of Virginia, relating to sexual sterilization of persons over the age of twenty-one. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.1-68.1, relating to the issuance of certificates of title and registration cards for vehicles to certain joint owners. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 20-14, 20-14.1, 20-16, 20-20, and 20-26 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32-853.34, the amended and new sections relating to marriage registers, reports to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, and racial requirements relating thereto; and to repeal §§ 20-17 through 20-19 and §§ 20-34 through 20-36 and §§ 20-50 through 20-60, relating generally to the same matters. |
| Act to amend and reenact § 20-121, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to merger of decree of divorce from bed and board into a final decree of divorce and other procedural matters relating thereto. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-97, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to domicile and residence requirements in suits for annulling a marriage or for divorce. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 3, 5, 7 and 15 of chapter 196 of the Code of Virginia for 1860, in regard to Unlawful Marriages. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the 14th section of chapter 108 of the Code of Virginia for 1860, in regard to Registers of Marriage; and to legalize the Marriages of Colored Persons now cohabiting as Husband and Wife. |
| An ACT to amend the Charter of the Midlothian Coal Mining Company, and to extend the duration of the same. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5 of chapter 110 of the Code. |
| An ACT amending and re-enacting section 5, chapter 124 of the Code. |
| An ACT to give effect to certain Acts, Contracts and Proceedings during the late War. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 55-275 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the rule for computing the present value of certain contingent rights. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 14.1-112 and 14.1-118, of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees charged by clerks of courts of record. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-216 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the piect of petitions for or pendency of appeals in cases involving juvent |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 58-98, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, for the personal exemptions allowed individuals reporting income or taxation. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 11-1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to the validity of certain contracts not in writing as to certain creditors and purchasers. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-98 of the Code of Virginia, relating to venue in suits for divorce, annulment and affirmation of marriage. |
| An Act to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 105, Code of 1873, in reference to granting divorces. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 164, Code of 1873, in relation to changing a person’s name. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 104, of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved April 29, 1874, in relation to issuing marriage licenses. |
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