Chap. 176.—An ACT to provide for bringing suits against receivers in
in certain cases.

Approved May 10, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
any receiver of any corporation, appointed by the courts of
this commonwealth, may be sucd in respect of any act or
transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with
such corporation without the previous leave of the court in
which such receiver was appointed: provided that the insti-
tution or pendency of such suit shall not interfere with or
delay a decree of sale for foreclosure of any mortgage upon
the property of said corporation, and said claim shall not be
a lien upon the property or funds under control of the court
until filed in said court, under the second section.

2. No exccution shall issue upon such judgment, but upon
the filing of a certified copy thereof in the cause in which
the receiver or receivers were appointed, the court shall di-
rect the payment of such judgment in the same manner as if
the claim upon which the judyment is based had been proved
and allowed in said cause.

3. Process or notice may be served upon such receiver or
receivers, or their agents, in the same manner as is provided
by section seven of chapter three hundred and ninety-six,
Acts of Assembly, eighteen hundred and eighty-five—six, for
serving process or notice upon a trustce or trustees, or their
agents, where a corporation is operated by a trustee or trus-
tees, or their agents.

4. All warrants before a justice of the peace under this act
shall be tried only after ten days’ notice.

5. All suits now pending before any court in this common-
wealth, upon petition against any receiver or receivers, shall,
upon the motion of the petitioner, be removed to the county or
corporation where the cause of action arose, the issue to be
made upon the petition and answer, or the petitioner shall be
allowed, if he so elect, to dismiss his petition, and institute
his suit or action as is herein provided, if his said action shall
not have been barred by the statute of limitations before the
filing of said petition.

6. All acts or parts ofacts in conflict herewith, are hereby
repealed.

7. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and eighty-cight.