Chap. 171.—An ACT validating certain sales heretofore made under deeds of
trust to secure debts or indemnify sureties. [S B 272]

Approved March 24, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That all
sales which have heretofore been made under deeds of trust to secure
debts and indemnify sureties, containing a provision requiring the giving
of notice of sale thereunder for a specified number of days by advertise-
ment in one or more newspapers, and which sales were made after
publishing the advertisement of sale in a newspaper published daily
or in a newspaper published daily except Sunday for the number of
days specified in the deed of trust, counting both the day of the first
publication and the day of the last publication and intervening Sundays,
whether or not such paper was published on Sunday and whether or
not the said sales were held on the day of the last publication (provided
that, in cases where the sale was held on the day of the last publication,
the publication was in a newspaper the principal daily edition of which
was delivered or publicly sold before the time fixed for the sale), and
whether or not the first publication or the last publication, or both, ap-
peared on Sunday, shall be held, and the same are hereby declared to
be valid and effective in all respects, if otherwise valid and effective
according to the law then in force; provided, however, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed as affecting any final order or de-
cree heretofore entered by any court of competent jurisdiction or as
affecting any suit or action now pending in any court of competent
jurisdiction; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be so
construed as to affect intervening vested rights.