Chap. 105.—An ACT to provide when and to what extent the statute of limi-
tations shall be suspended by proceedings in creditor’s suits, as to claims
provable therein. [H B 121]

Approved Fedruary 28, 1920.

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, or as a suit to enforce a mechanics’ lien,
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 com-
mencement 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 creditors’
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 recommittal, or a later decree of reference for an account,
the statute shall continue to run without interruption by reason of pre-
vious decrees until filing of the petition, or until the date of the
reference under which they prove their claims, as the case may be.

3. There being an emergency existing, this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.