Chap. 442.—An ACT to provide when and to what extent the statute of
limitations shall be suspended by proceedings in creditors’ suits, as to
claims provable therein. (S. B. 58.)

Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
when a suit in chancery is commenced as a general creditors’
suit, or as a general lien creditors’ suit, the running of the
statute of limitations shall be suspended as to debts provable
in such suit from the commencement of the same provided they
are brought in before the master under the first reference for
an account of debts; but as to claims not so brought in the
statute shall continue to run, without interruption by reason
either of the commencement of the suit or of the decree for an
account, until a later decree for an account, under which they
do come in, or they are asserted by petition or independent suit
or action.

2. In suits not instituted originally either as general cred-
itors’ suits, or as general lien creditors’ suits, but which become
such by subsequent proceedings, the statute of limitations shall
be suspended by a decree of reference for an account of debts
or of liens only as to those creditors who come in and prove
their claims under the decree and as to creditors who come in
afterwards by petition or under a decree of re-committal, or a
later decree of reference for an account, the statute shall con-
tinue to run without interruption by reason of previous decrees
until filing of the petition, or until the date of the reference
under which they prove their claims, as the case may be.