Chap. 429.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2790 of the Code of Virginia
of 1887, in relation to when and by whom distress made.

Approved December 12, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-seven hundred and ninety of the Code of Virginia, edition of

eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 2790. When and by whom distress made.—Rent may be distrained
for within five years from the time it becomes duc, and not afterwards,
whether the lease be ended or not. The distress shall be made by a con-
stable, sheriff, or sergeant of the county or corporation wherein the
premises yielding the rent, or some part thereof, may be, or the goods
liable to distress may be found, under warrant from a justice or clerk
of the circuit or corporation court, founded upon an affidavit of the per-
son claiming the rent, or his agent, that the amount of money or other
thing to be distrained for (to be specified in the affidavit), as he verily
believes, is justly due to the claimant for rent reserved upon contract
from the person of whom it is claimed.

2. This act shall be in force on and after February the first, nineteen
hundred and four.