Chap. 292.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2919 of the code as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1888, in relation to the limi-
tation of suits.

Approved February 12, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-nine hundred and nineteen of the code as amended by an
act approved February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2919. The period between the seventeenth day of April, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, and the second day of March, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-six, shall be excluded from the computation of the
time within which, by the terms or operation of any statute or rule
of law, it may be necessary to commence any action or other pro-
ceeding, or to do any other act to preserve or prevent the loss of any
civil right or remedy, or to avoid any fine, penalty, or forfeiture; and
the period between the second day of March, eighteen hundred and
sixty-six, and the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-
nine, and the period of one year from the death of any party, shall
be excluded from the computation of time within which, by the
operation of any statute or rule of law, it may be necessary to com-
mence any proceeding to preserve or prevent the loss of any right or
remedy.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.