Chap. 229.—An ACT Authorizing the Supreme Court of Appeals to Pre-
scribe Rules Regulating Practice and Pleadings, and to Establish the
Forms of Pleadings and of Process.

Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
to the end of promoting uniformity in the practice of the
courts of this commonwealth, and brevity and succinctness in
all pleadings and proceedings in the said courts, and of pre-
venting expense and delays, it shall be the duty of the supreme
court of appeals, as soon as practicable, to prepare a system of
rules to regulate the practice in the said courts, to prepare a
system or systems of pleadings, to be used in the said courts;
and to prepare the forms of such pleadings, and of the process
to be used in said courts.
2. That the said court of appeals, so soon as they shall have
prepared the system of rules and pleadings provided for in
the foregoing section, shall report their proceedings under this
act to the general assembly, in order to farther legislation in
the premises.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.