Chap. 270.—An ACT to provide for the trial of civil cases by a civil and police
justice on motion. {[H B 89]
Approved March 15, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any per-
son entitled to maintain an action at law or civil warrant before a civil
and police justice or civil justice of a city or trial justice of a county ad-
joining a city having a population of not less than one hundred and sev-
enty thousand, according to the last preceding United States census,
may, in lieu of such action at law or civil warrant, proceed by motion
before said civil and police justice after not less than five days’ notice,
which notice shall be in writing, signed by the plaintiff or his attorney,
and shall be returned to the said civil and police justice before the re-
turn day of same and when so returned shall be forthwith docketed.

The said notice shall contain a brief informal statement of the plain-
tiff’s claim.
All motions under this section shall be served in the same manner
that civil warrants are served; provided, that those returnable before
civil justices and served in cities of such justices. shall be served only by
the high constable or sergeant of said cities, and shall be tried in the
same manner that civil warrants are now tried before said civil and
police justice.