Chap. 190.—An ACT to Amend the 3d Section of Chapter 188 of the Code
of 1860, relative to the Mode of Enforcing Recoveries of Money on
Executions.

Approved March 19, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the third section of chapter one hundred and eighty-eight, of
the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, be amended and re
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3. Every writ of fieri facias hereafter issued shall, in addi-
tion to the effect which it has under chapter one hundred and
eighty-seven, be a hen from the time that it is delivered to a
sheriff or other officer, to be executed upon all the personal
estate of or to which the judgment debtor is possessed or enti-
tled (although not levied on, nor capable of being levied on,
under that chapter), except in the case of a husband or parent,
such things as are exempt from distress or levy by the thirty-
third and thirty-fourth sections of chapter forty-nine, and also
wages due to a laboring man being a householder or head of a
family, not exceeding fifty dollars a month; and except that, as
against an assignee of any such estate for valuable considera-
tion, or a person making a payment to the judgment debtor,
the lien by virtue of this section shall be valid only from the
time that he has notice thereof. This section shall not impair
a hen acquired by an execution creditor under chapter one
hundred and eighty-seven.

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