CHAPTER 456

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-78, of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the time within which, after publication, cases may be tried or

heard.
[H 353]
Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

er That § 8-73 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 8-73. Within what time after publication case tried or heard;
no subsequent publication required.—When such order shall have been so
executed, or when a copy of any process, or of a notice beginning any
action, shall have been published as provided by any section of this chap-.
ter, if the defendants against whom it is entered, or published, or the
unknown parties, shall not appear within ten days after the completion
of the execution of such order, or the expiration of the four weeks required
for the completion of such publication, the case may be tried or heard
as to them. No other publication, or notice, shall be thereafter required
in any proceeding in court, or before a commissioner, or for the purpose
of taking depositions, unless specially ordered by the court as to such
defendants or unknown parties; but if they shall be represented by
counsel residing in this State, of record or known to the plaintiff,
reasonable notice of any proceeding before a commissioner, or of the
taking of depositions, shall be given to such counsel, or any of them,
if there be more than one; but should the defendant appear and there be
no counsel of record who ‘has appeared on behalf of the defendant, any
and all notices required to be given to the defendant may be given by
regular United States mail addressed to the last known post office address
of the defendant.