Chap. 281.-An ACT to provide that a party to any action at law or suit
in equity shall not ba held as waiving his rights to object and except
to the ruling of the court where a demurrer to his pleading has been
sustained, and he has amended, as the result of such ruling.

(H. B. 22.)
Approved March 25, 1914.

"1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That

- In any action at law or suit in equity, where a pleading of either the
‘plaintiff or the defendant has been demurred to by the opposite
; party, and such demurrer sustained, and as a consequence thereof

- the pleading has been amended by the party against whom the

-Tuling was made, such party may except to the ruling of the court,

and by his amendment shall not be held to have waived his right

, 0 stand upon his pleading, as it was before amended, and in any
‘Appeal in such a case, the party against whom the demurrer has
. teen sustained may insist upon his exception, and if the lower court

% in error the judgment may be reversed for such ruling.