An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1904 |
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Law Number | 206 |
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Chap. 206.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3214 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved December 10, 1903, which is chapter 409 of
the acts of the special session of 1902-’3-"4.
Approved March 15, 1904.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-two hundred and fourteen, as amended! by an act approved Decem-
ber tenth, nineteen hundred and three, of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 3214. The county or corporation in which actions at law or suits in
equily may be brought.—Any action at law or suit in equity except where
it is otherwise especially provided, may be brought in any county or cor-
poration—
First. Wherein any of the defendants may reside.
Second. If a corporation be a defendant, wherein its principal office is,
or wherein its mayor, rector, president, or other chief officer resides
- Third. If it be to recover a loss under a policy of insurance, either
upon property or life, wherein the property insured was situated at the
date of the policy, or the person whose life was insured resided at the
date of his death or at the date of the policy.
Fourth. If it be to recover land, or subject to a debt, or be against a
foreign corporation which has estate or debts owing to it within this
State, wherein such land’, estate, or debts, or any part thereof, may be; or
if it be against a defendant who resides without, but has estates or debts
owing to him within this State, wherein such debt or estate, or any part
thereof, may be; or in any county or corporation wherein he may be found
and served with process; or if it be against a defendant who resides with-
out, but has no estate or debts owing to him within this State, in any
county or corporation wherein he may be found and served with process.
Fifth. If it be on behalf of the Commonwealth, whether in the name
of the attorney-general or otherwise, it may be in the city of Richmond.
Sixth. If it be an action or a suit in which it is necessary or proper to
make any of the following public officers a party defendant—to-wit, the
governor, attorney-general, treasurer, register of the land office, either
auditor, superintendent of public instruction, or commission of agricul-
ture; or in which it may be necessary or proper to make any of the fol-
lowing public corporations a party defendant—to-wit, the board of edu-
cation or other public corporation composed of officers of government, of
the funds and property of which the Commonwealth is sole owner; or in
which it shall be attempted to enjoin or otherwise suspend or affect any
judgment or decree on behalf of the Commonwealth, or any execution
issued on such judgment or decree, it shall be only in the city of Rich-
mond.
Seventh. If a judge of a circuit court be interested in a case which,
but for such interest, would be proper for the jurisdiction of his court, the
action or suit may be brought in any county or corporation in an adjoin-
ing circuit.