CHAP. 74.— An ACT to authorize the ascertainment and designation of the
boundary line of real estate.

Approved March 4, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
any person having an interest in real estate upon petition filed
in the court which would have jurisdiction in an action of eject-
ment concerning such real estate, shall have the right to have
ascertained and designated by the said court, the true boundary
line or lines to such real estate as to one or more of the coter-
minous landowners. All persons interested in the coterminous
real estate shall be made parties to the said petition which shall
be matured for hearing as provided for maturing an action of
ejectment, except that it shall not be necessary to serve a copy of
the petition.

The trial shall be conducted as other trials at law and the
same rules of evidence shall apply and the same defenses may
be made as in other actions at law; the trial by jury may be
waived by consent of parties, the judgment of the court shall be
recorded in the common law order book and in the current deed
book of the court, and indexed in the name of the parties to the
petition. The court may upon application of either party to
the petition, by order in term time or in vacation, direct such
survey or surveys to be made as may be deemed necessary. The
judgment of the court shall, unless reversed, forever settle and
determine and designate the true boundary line or lines in ques-
tion, and be binding upon the parties to such petition, their
heirs, devisees and assigns. The judgment of the court shall
be subject to the review by the supreme court of appeals of the
State upon writ of error.