CHaP. 213.—An ACT to amend section 2716 of the code in relation
to unlawful detainer.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section two thousand seven hundred and sixteen
a code be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
ollows :

32716. If any forcible or unlawful entry be made upon
lands, or if, when the entry is lawful and peaceable, the
tenant shall detain the possession of land after his right
has expired, without the consent of him who is entitled
to the posseasion, the party so turned out of possession,
no matter what right or title he had thereto, or the party
against whom such possession is unlawfully detained, may
within three years after such forcible or unlawful entry,
orsach unlawful detainer, sue out of the clerk’s office of
the cireuit or county court of the county or the circuit or
corporation court of the corporation in which the land, or
some part thereof, is, a summons against the defendant to
answer the complaint of the plaintiff, that the defendant
12 in possession and unlawfully holds from the plaintiff
the premises in question (describing them),.and no decla-
ration shall be required. Or, in any case where the posses-
sion of any house, land or tenement is unlawfully detained
by a tenant or some person claiming under him the lease
of such tenant being originally for a period not exceeding
oue month, or for the time such tenant is emploved by the
landlord as laborer, the landlord, or other persons entitled
tothe possession, may present to any justice of the county,
city or town in which said premises are situated, a state-
ment, under oath, of the facts which authorize the removal
of the tenant or other person in possession (describing
said premises), and thereupon the said justice shall issue
his summons against the person or persons named in said
affidavit.

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