Chap. 54.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6172 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to striking cases from court docket. [H B 34]

Approved February 27, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion sixty-one hundred and seventy-two of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6172. Any court in which is pending a case wherein
for more than two years there has been no order or proceeding, ex-
cept to continue it, may, in its discretion, order it to be struck from
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ts docket; and it sha y be discontinued. A court making
such order may direct it to be published in such newspaper as it may
Jesignate. Any such case may be reinstated, on motion, within one
year from the date of such order, but not after. The clerk of the
court shall notify the parties in interest if known, or their counsel
of record, if living, at his last-known address, in writing, at least
fifteen days before the entry of such order, so that all parties may
have an opportunity to be heard on it. ,