Chap. 291.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2911 of the Code of
Virginia, in relation to judgment in detinue. (H. B. 8.)

Approved March 18, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-nine hundred and eleven of the Code of Virginia
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2911. When final judgment is rendered on the trial
of such action or warrant, the court or justice shall dispose of
the property or proceeds in the hands of the officer, according
to the rights of those entitled; and when in any such action or
warrant the plaintiff shall prevail under a contract which, re-
gardless of its form or express terms, was in fact made to se-
cure the payment of money to the plaintiff or his assignor, judg-
ment shall be for the recovery of the amount due the plaintiff
thereunder, or else the specific property, and costs, and the de-
fendant shall have the election of paying the amount of said
judgment or surrendering the specific property, and the court
or justice may grant the defendant a reasonable time, not ex-
ceeding thirty days, within which to discharge such judgment
upon such security being given as the court or justice may deem
sufficient.

But this act shall not be construed to give the right to bring
an action of detinue in any case where the plaintiff would not
now have such right.