Chap. 76.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the code of Virginia,
in relation to when and how decree for divorce from bed and board may be
revoked or divorce from bond of matrimony granted.

Approved January 17, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two thousand two hundred and sixty-six of the code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2266. When and how decree for divorce from bed and board may
be revoked or divorce from bonds of matrimony granted.—When a
decree for a separation forever, or a limited period, shall have been
made in a suit for a divorce from bed and board, it may at any time
thereafter, upon the joint: application of the parties and a produc-
tion by them of satisfactory evidence of their reconciliation, be re-
voked by the same court which made it, and under such regula-
tions and restrictions as the court may impose; and when a divorce
from bed and board has been decreed for abandonment or deser-
tion, and three years shall have elapsed from the abandonment or
desertion without such reconciliation, the court may, upon the appli-
cation of the injured party and the production of satisfactory evi-
dence, whether taken thereto or in support of such application,
decree a divorce from the bonds of matrimony; provided the court
shall be of the opinion that such decree would have been proper,
when the decree from bed and board was made, had three years then
elapsed, and the whole evidence adduced upon said application
been before the court, and that no reconciliation is probable.

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