Chap. 95.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 17, 1896, relating to
divorees.

Approved March 16, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
venty-two hundred and sixty-six of the Code of Virginia of eighteen
undred and eighty-seven, as amended by an act approved January seven-
‘nth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted to
‘ad as follows:

$2266. When and how a decree for divorce from bed: and board may
¢ revoked or may be merged into a decree of divorce from the bonds of
atrimony.—When a decree for a separation forever, or a limited period,
as been made in a suit for a divorce from bed and board, it may at any
me thereafter, upon the joint application of the parties, and the produc-
‘on by them of satisfactory evidence of their reconciliation, be revoked
y the same court which made it, and under such regulations and re-
'rictions as the court may impose. And when three years shall have
lapsed after the entering of a decree for a divorce from bed and board,
pon application of the party injured, and upon the production of satis-
actory evidence, whether taken theretofore or in support of such applica-
tion, the court may merge such decree for divorce from bed and board
into a decree for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony: provided, the
court shall be of opinion, from the evidence taken in the suit and in
support of the said application, that no reconciliation is probable and
that a separation has continued without interruption since the granting
of such divorce.