Chap. 215.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 1st and 2nd Section:
of the 169th Chapter of the Code of 1860, as Amended by the 12tk
Chapter of the Acts of 1803-’4, and by the 18th Chapter of the Acts
of 1864-’5, Prescribing the Courts in which Legal Proceedings are
Commenced.

Approved March 22, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the act passed on the twenty-ninth of January, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the
first section of the one hundred and sixty-ninth chapter of the
Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, and the act to amend and
re-enact the second section of the same chapter, passed Febru-
ary eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Any action at law or suit in equity, except where it is
otherwise specially provided, may be brought in any county
or corporation:

First, wherein any of the defendants may reside.

Secondly, if a corporation be a defendant, wherein its prin-
cipal office is, or wherein its mayor, rector, president or other
chief officer resides. If the suit or action be to recover a loss
under any policy of insurance, either upon property or upon life,
the action or suit may be brought in the county or corporation
wherein the property insured was situated, or the person whose
life was insured resided at the date of the policy of imsurance.

Thirdly, if it be to recover land, or subject it to a debt, or
be against a defendant who resides without, but has estate or
debts due him within this state, wherein such land, estate or
debts, or any part thereof, may be; or,

Fourthly, if it be on behalf of the commonwealth, in the
name of the attorney-general, or when it may be necessary or
proper to make any of the following public officers a party de-
fendant, as representing the commonwealth, to wit: the gov-
ernor, attorney-general, treasurer, register of the land office,
or either auditor; or when it may be necessary or proper to
make any of the following public corporations parties defen-
dant, to wit: the board of education, board of public works,
or any other public corporation composed of officers of gov-
ernment, of the funds and property of which the common-
wealth is sole owner, or in which it shall be attempted to enjoin
or otherwise suspend or affect any judgment or decree on be-
half of the commonwealth, or any execution issued on such
judgment or decree, the action or suit shall be brought in the
circuit court of the city of Richmond; or,

Fifthly, if a judge of a circuit court be interested in a case,
which, but for such interest, would be proper for the jurisdic-
tion of his court, the action or suit may be brought in any
county or corporation in an adjoining circuit.

§ 2. An action may be brought in any county or corporation
wherein the cause of action, or any part thereof, arose, al-
though none of the defendants reside therein.

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