Chap. 97.—An ACT giving courts of law jurisdiction over suits on lost past
due bonds, notes, or other written evidences of debt, and enabling said
courts to require the party in whose favor the judgment may be rendered
to execute proper indemnifying bond before execution is issued.

Approved January 22, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That hereafter
an action at law or motion may be maintained on any past-due lost
bond, note, or other written evidence of debt: provided, however, that
the party in whose favor judgment may be rendered shall not have the
benefit of the same, nor shall execution issue upon it until he, or some
one for him, shall have executed bond in such penalty as the court may
deem just, requiring him to refund such amount of principal, interest
and costs, as may fully indemnify the person against whom said judg-
ment has been rendered, in case the said past-due lost bond, note, or
other evidence of debt should afterwards be discovered in the hands of
an innocent holder.

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