CHAPTER 399
An Act to amend and reenact § 20-118, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to prohibition against remarriage on dissolution of bond
of matrimony.
[H 113]

Approved March 30, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 20-118, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 20-118. On the dissolution of the bond of matrimony for any cause
arising subsequent to the date of the marriage, * of objections or exceptions
are noted or filed to the final decree and a bond is given staying the execu-
tion thereof, the court shall decree that neither party shall remarry pend-
ing the perfecting of an appeal from said final judgment of the trial court.

Marriages heretofore celebrated in violation of any prohibition against
remarriage shall not hereafter be deemed to be invalid because of the viola-
tion of such prohibition, provided that the parties to such a marriage have
continued to reside together as husband and wife until the first day of July
1960, or until such time as one of the parties dies prior to July one, nine-
teen hundred sixty; and provided further, that no litigation pending on
the effective date hereof shall be affected hereby.