Chap. 524.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3584 and 3599 of the Code
of Virginia.

Approved December 31, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
thirty-five hundred and eighty-four and: thirty-five hundred’ and ninety-
nine of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 3584. When writ of possession may issue; fieri facias for damages
or profits and costs.—On a judgment for the recovery of specific pro-
perty, real or personal, a writ of possession may issue for the specific
property, which shall conform to the judgment as to the description of
the property and the estate, title, or interest recovered, and there may
also be issued a writ of fieri facias for the damages or profits, and costs.
Writs of possession, in cases of unlawful entry and detainer, where the
premises .are located in cities or towns or in suburban or other lands
which are subdivided into building lots for residential purposes, shall be
made returnable within thirty days from the date of issuing the writ.

§ 3599. When and by whom executions may be quashed; how pro-
ceedings thereon stayed until motion to quash is heard.—The motion to
quash an execution may, after reasonable notice to the adverse party, be
heard and decided by the justice who issued the execution, or the circuit
court of the county or the corporation court of the corporation in which
such justice resides, and in other cases by the court whose clerk issued the
execution, or if it was from a circuit or corporation court, by the judge
thereof in vacation; and such court or judge, on the application of the
plaintiff in the motion, may make an order staying the proceedings on
the execution until the motion be heard and determined, the order not
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to be effectual until bond be given in such penalty and with such condi-
tion, and either with or without surety, as the court or judge may pre-
scribe. The clerk from whose office the execution issued, or the justice
rendering the judgment, as the case may: be, shall take the bond and
make as many copies of the order as may be necessary and endorse
thereon that the bond required has been given; and a copy shall be served
on the plaintiff in the execution and on the officer in whose hands the
execution is.

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