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 | 1912 |
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Law Number | 218 |
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CHAP. 218.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2965 of the Code of
Virginia, with reference to the direction and return of an attachment,
as amended by acts approved January 30, 1894, February 27, 1894,
and December 10, 1908, by adding a provision requiring the payment
within thirty days, under the penalty of dismissal, of the proper writ
tax in case of an attachment for an amount exceeding twenty dollars
returned to a circuit or city court.
Approved March 138, 1912.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-nine hundred and sixty-five of the Code of Vir-
ginia, aS amended by acts approved January thirty, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, February twenty-seven, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-four, and December ten, nineteen hundred and
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§2965. To whom attachment may be directed; where. re-
turned; payment of writ tax.—Any attachment issued under this
chapter may be directed to the sheriff, sergeant or constable of
any county or corporation. If issued in a pending suit, it shall
be returnable to a term of the court in which the same is pend-
ing, or to some rule day thereof. When not issued in a pending
suit, if the claim exceed twenty dollars (exclusive of interest),
it shall be returnable by the justice or clerk issuing the same,
at the option of the plaintiff, to the next term of the circuit
court of the county or to the circuit or city court having juris-
diction of the subject matter of the corporation in which such
justice or clerk resides; and, where any attachment is so re-
turned, the plaintiff therein shall, within thirty days from the
date on which said return is actually made, pay to the clerk of
the court to which said return is actually made, the proper writ
tax as fixed by law, if not already paid, and in the event of his
failure to do so within said period of thirty days, said attach-
ment and the proceeding upon which it is based shall be taken as
dismissed, and no further proceedings shall be had thereon, but
the original papers in said attachment and the proceeding upon
which it is based shall be returned by the clerk of the court to
which said return is made, to the justice or clerk by whom said
attachment was issued, and said justice or clerk shall issue exe-
cution against the plaintiff for all unpaid costs forthwith. Any
attachment issued by a justice or clerk, the return of which is
not elsewhere provided for, shall, when the claim does not ex-
ceed twenty dollars (exclusive of interest), be returnable and
proceeded upon according to the provisions of section twenty-
nine hundred and eighty-eight; provided, that when issued by
a clerk such attachment shall be returnable before some justice
of his county or corporation.