Chap. 182.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5260 of the code of Virginia.
How and when exception to jurisdiction to be taken when plea in abatement
filed.

Approved February 1, 1898.

1. Beat enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-two hundred and sixty of the code of Virginia, be ‘amended and
re- ens ited so as to read ag follows:

3260, Where the declaration or bill shows on its face proper matter
for the jurisdiction of the court, no exception for want of such jurisdic-
tion shall be allowed, unless it be taken by plea in abatement. No such
plea or any other plea in abatement, shall be received after the defendant
has demurred, pleaded in bar, or answered to the declaration or bill,
nor after a deeree vist or conditional judgment at rules,

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