CHAP. 504.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3122 of the
code of Virginia in relation to the opening-of a court and mak-
ing provision for its sessions where it fails to meet on the day
appointed or to which itadjourned. —

Approved February 29, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section three thousand one hundred and twenty-two
of the code of Virginia be, and the same is hereby, amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3122. Provision for opening a court, or for its sitting
where it fails to meet on day appointed or to which it is
adjourned.—Though a court be not held on the first day
of a term, it may nevertheless be opened on any subse-
quent day if, in the case of a circuit, county, or corpora-
tion court, the same be done before four o’clock in the
afternoon of the third day. After a court, other than a
corporation court, is opened, it shall during the term ad-
journ from day to day, and not otherwise; and if it fail to
sit on any day to which it is adjourned, it may neverthe-
less sit on any subsequent day of the term: provided, in

the case of a circuit or county court, there shall not be
more consecutive days than three upon which it shall so
fail to sit; but a circuit court, after having been in session
for six days, may take a recess for a period not exceeding
twenty days. A corporation court may.adjourn to any day
during the term, and if it fail to sit on any day to which
it adjourns, it may nevertheless sit on any subsequent day
of the period during which its session might be lawfully
extended; and the respective terms of such courts, when
once opened, shall expire only by order of the court ad-
journing the term, or subject to section three thousand
one hundred and twenty-six of the code of Virginia, by
the coming of the regular time for the commencement of
the succeeding term or the coming of the time fixed by law,
if any, for the end of the term thereof.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.