Chap. 136.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 4, 6,7, and 12, of
Chapter 179 of the Code of 1860, in Regard to the Jurisdiction of the
Judges of the Commonwealth to Award Injunctions, and to Confer Simi-
lar Jurisdiction upon the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond,

Approved March 15, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections
four, six, seven, and twelve, of chapter one hundred and sey-
enty-nine of the Code of Virginia (eighteen hundred and sixty),
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 4. Jurisdiction of a bill for an injunction to any judg-
ment, act, or proceeding, shall be in a circuit, county, or cor-
poration court of a county or corporation in which the judg-
ment is rendered, or the act or proceeding is to be done, or is
doing or apprehended.”

Ҥ 6. Every judge of a circuit or corporation court shall
have a general jurisdiction in awarding injunctions, whether
the judgment or proceeding enjoined be of a superior or infe-
rior court, in or out of his circuit or corporation, or the party
against whose proceedings the injunction be asked, reside in
or out of the same; and every judge of a county court shall
have jurisdiction in awarding injunctions, whether the judg-
ment or proceeding enjoined be ofa superior or inferior court
of his county or district, or the party against whose act or
proceeding the injunction be asked, reside in or out of the
same: provided, such act or proceeding is apprehended, or is
to be done, or is doing, in his county or district.

Ҥ 7. When a circuit or corporation court, ora judge thereof,
shall refuse to award an injunction, a copy of the proceedings
in court, and the original papers presented to the judge in va-
cation, with his order of refusal, may be presented to a judge
of the court of appeals, who may thereupon award the injunc-
tion; and when a county court, or judge thereof, shall refuse
to award an injunction, a copy of the proceedings in court, and
the original papers presented to the judge in vacation, with
his order of refusal, may be presented to a judge of the circuit
court, who may thereupon award the injunction; and when the
circuit court, or the judge thereof shall, in the case last men-
tioned, refuse to award an injunction, a copy of the proceed-
ings in court, and the original papers presented to the judge
in vacation, with his order of refusal, may be nirasentadl toa
judge of the court of appeals, who may thereupon award the
Injunction.”

Ҥ 12. The judge of a circuit, county or corporation court,
in which a case is pending, wherein an injunction is awarded,
may in vacation, dissolve such injunction after reasonable notice
to the adverse party. His order for the dissolution shall be
directed to the clerk of said court, who shall record the same
in the order book.” :

2. The chancery court of the city of Richmond, and the
judge thereof respectively, shall have the same jurisdiction
and powers, and perform the same duties which, by the pro-
visions of chapter one hundred and seventy-nine, of the Code
of eighteen hundred and sixty, are vested in and devolved
upon the circuit courts of the state and the judges thereof
respectively.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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