Chap. 352.—An ACT to give county courts jurisdiction upon scire facias or
motion to revive judgments of justices of the peace.

Approved February 14, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That a scire
facias and motion may be brought or heard in the county courts of this
state to revive any and all judgments rendered by a justice of the peace
in such county in which such scire facias or motion is brought when-
ever there is an abstract of such judgment entered on the lien docket
in the clerk’s office of such court, or where a fieri facias issued upon such
judgment has been returned to said clerk’s office and entered on the
execution book, only in cases, however, where a scire facias or action
could be brought to revive a judgment rendered by a court of record
under sections thirty-five hundred and seventy-seven and thirty-five
hundred and seventy-eight of the code of Virginia.

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