Chap. 68.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6252 of the Code of Virginia
of 1919. [S B 159}
| Approved February 27, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six thousand two hundred and fifty-two of the Code of Virginia of
nineteen hundred and nineteen, be, and the same is hereby, amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows: |

Section 6252. Bills of exceptions.—In the trial of a case at law, in
which an appeal, writ of error or supersedeas lies to or from a higher
court, & party may except to any opinion of the court, and tender a hill
of exception, which, if the truth of the case be fairly stated therein, the
judge shall sign, and it shall be a part of the record of the case. Any
bill of exception may be tendered tothe judge and signed by him, at
any time before final judgment is entered, or within sixty days from
the time at which such Judgment is entered, whether another term of
the said court has intervened or not; but before the court, or judge in
vacation shall sign any bill of exception so tendered it shall appear in
writing that the opposite party or his attorney has had reasonable
notice of the time and place at which said bill of exception is to be so
tendered to the court or judge; and when any bill of exception tendered
to and signed by the judge shall have been so signed such bill of excep-
tion shall be forthwith delivered or transmitted to the clerk of the court
in which the case is pending; and any bill of exception so tendered to
and signed by the judge, as aforesaid, either in term time or in vacation,
shall be a part of the record of the case. The same rule shall apply
when cases are heard or opinions are rendered in vacation, in which case
the party excepting shall have sixty days from the day that such opinion
is rendered. This section shall apply to criminal cases as well as to
civil cases.