Chap. 315.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 205
thereof a new section numbered 5112-a providing that a divorce from bec
and board shall not bar a divorce from the bonds of matrimony. [H B 163]

Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding to chapter two hundred and
five thereof a new section numbered fifty-one hundred and twelve-a,
which new section shall read as follows:

Section 5112-a. The granting of a divorce from bed and board
shall not be a bar to either party obtaining a divorce from the bonds
of matrimony on any ground which would justify a divorce from the
bonds of matrimony if no divorce from bed and board had been granted,
unless the cause for absolute divorce was existing and known to the
party applying for the divorce from the bonds of matrimony before the
decree of divorce from bed and board was entered.