Chap. 95.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 17, 1896, relating to
divorces.

Approved March 16, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two hundred and sixty-six of the Code of Virginia of eightcen
hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by an act approved January seven-
tcenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted to
read as follows:

§ 2266. When and how a decree for divorce from bed and board may
be revoked or may be merged into a decree of divorce from the bonds of
matrimony.—When a decree for a separation forever, or a limited period,
has 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 the produc-
tion by them of satisfactory evidence of their reconciliation, be revoked
by the same court which made it, and under such regulations and re-
strictions as the court may impose. And when three years shall have
elapsed after the entering of a decree for a divorce from bed and board,
upon application of the party injured, and upon the production of satis-
factory evidence, whether taken theretofore or in support of such applica-
tion, the court may merge such decree for divorce from bed and board
into a deeree for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony: provided, the
court shall be of opinion, from the evidence taken in the suit and in
support of the said application, that no reconciliation is probable and
that a separation has continued without interruption since the granting
oi such divorce.