Chap. 9.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5825 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to limitation of actions prevented by
defendant, and on foreign contracts. [S B 43]

Approved February 18, 1938

_ 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-eight hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, as
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 5825. As to Plaintiff When Suit Prevented by Defendant;
When Right of Action on Foreign Contract Barred.—Where any
such right as is mentioned in this chapter shall accrue against a person
who had before resided in this State, if such persons shall, by depart-
ing without the same or by absconding or concealing himself, or by any
other indirect ways or means obstruct the prosecution of such right,
the time that such obstruction may have continued shall not be com-
puted as any part of the time within which the said right might or
ought to have been prosecuted. But this section shall not avail against
any other person than him so obstructing notwithstanding another
might have been jointly sued with him if there had been no such
obstruction. Nor shall it apply to the provisions of section sixty-
four hundred and seventy-four.

Upon a contract which was made and was to be performed in
another State or country by a person who then resided therein, no
action shall be maintained after the right of action thereon is barred
either by the laws of such State or country or of this State.