Chap. 476.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section $967 of the code of Virginia,
in reference to the time from which a judgment is to be a dien on all the real
estate of debtor.

Approved February 24, 189%,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand five hundred and sixty-seven of the code of Vi irginia, in
reference to the time from which a judzment is to be a lien on all of
the real estate of a debtor, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 3567. Judgment to be a hen on all real extate of debtor; from what
time.—Every judgment for money rendered in this state, heretofore or
hereafter, against any person, shall be a en on all the real estate of or
to which such person is or becomes possessed or entitled, at or after the
date of such judgment, or, if it was rendered in court, at or after the
commencement of the term at which it was so rendered.

But in the case of any judgment or deerce for money hereafter rendered in
racation, or hereafter confessed (unless it bea judgment contessed in court in
a snit in which a yudgment might have been rendered on the first day of the
term, such judgment or decree shill be effective only from the time of day at
which the same was confessed, or at which such judgment or decree in vaaction
was received to be entered of record in the clerk’ s office of the court entering the
same; and when more than one judgment or decree is confessed, or entered in

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racdtion, on the same day, they shall have priority in the order with respect
to the time when they are confessed or received for record in said clerk’ s office:
provided, that when several judgments are confessed together, they shall all be
deemed to hare been confessed as of the time the first was confessed, and the
clerk shall enter such tine on the margin of his order book. This section is

qualified by section three thousand siz hundred and forty-nine and the three
following sections,