Chap. 222.-—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2967 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved February 19, 1904, in relation to at-
tachments.

‘ Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-nine hundred and sixty-seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by an act approved February the nineteenth, nineteen hundred and four,
be amended and re-enacted as to read as follows:

§2967. On what estate attachment may be levied ; how debts, et cetera,
attached; how levy made; how, when real estate is attached; how at-
tachments served.—Every attachment (except where it is sued out
specifically against specified property) may be levied on any estate, real
or personal, or when it is against a non-resident or absconding debtor,
any remainder, whether vested or contingent, of the defendant, or so
much thereof as is sufficient to pay the amount for which it issues, and
may be levied upon any estate of the defendant, whether the same be
in the county or corporation in which the attachment issued, or in any
other, either by the officer of the county or corporation wherein the
attachment issued, or by the officer of the county or corporation where
the estate is; and when levied on a contingent remainder, the said con-
tingent remainder shall not be sold until it becomes vested, but the
lecree or judgment ascertaining the amount due the plaintiff may be
docketed as other liens are docketed, and shall be a lien only on the
property levied on. The plaintiff, his agent or attorney may, by an en-
dorsement on the attachment at the time it is issued, or in writing at
any time before the return day thereof, designate any person as being
indebted to, or having in his possession effects of, the defendant or
one of the defendants; and in such case the officer issuing the attach-
ment shall make as many copies thereof as there are persons designated,
with an endorsement on each copy that the person so designated is re-
quired to appear at the term of the court to which the attachment is
returnable, if the same be returnable to a term, or to the first term of
the court next after the return day of the attachment, if the same be
returnable to a rule day thereof, and disclose on oath in what sum he
is indebted to the defendant, and what effects of the defendant he has
in his hands. It shall be sufficiently levied, if sued out against specified
property, by serving the attachment on the defendant, or other person
having possession of such property; in every other case, by serving the
attachment on such persons as may be designated by the plaintiff as
aforesaid; and where the defendant is in possession, by service of the
attachment on him; and as to real estate, by such estate being men-
tioned and described in an endorsement on such attachment, made by
the officer to whom it is delivered for service, to the following effect:
“Levied on the following real estate of the defendant (A. B. or A.
B. and C. D.), to wit: (Here describe the estate), this the
day of ——_———.._ EE. F., sheriff (or other officer)” and by service
of the attachment on the person, if any, in possession of such estate.
The attachment in every case may be served as a notice is required to
be served by section thirty-two hundred and seven.