Chap. 242.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 12, Chapter 186 of
the Code of Virginia, in Regard to Writs of Scire Facias.

Approved March 29, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly ot Virginia, That
section twelve of chapter one hundred and eighty-six of the
Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty), be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$12. On a judgment, execution may be issued within a
year, and a scire facias or action may be brought within ten
years after the date of the judgment; and where execution
issues within the year, other executions may be issued, or ascire
facias or action may be brought within ten years from the re-
turn day of an execution on which there is no return by an offi-
cer, or within twenty years from the return day of an execution
on which there is such return; except that where the scire facias
or action is against the personal representative of a decedent,
it shall be brought within five years from the qualification of
such representative: provided, that in computing time under
this section, there shall, as to writs of fieri facias, be omitted
from such computation, the time elapsed between the first day
of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the passage
of this act: provided, nothing herein contained shall be so
construed as to affect the question of costs in any writ of scire
facias now pending.” 3

2. Be it further enacted, That an act approved November
fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an act preserving
certain remedies from loss by lapse ot time, be and the same is
hereby repealed.

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