An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1870/1871 |
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Law Number | 91 |
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Law Body
Chap. 91.—An ACT to Amend Section 23, Chapter 176 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, (Edition of 1860), as to Compelling Attendance of Witnesses.
Approved March 4, 1871.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
twenty-three, chapter one hundred and seventy-six of the
Code of Virginia (edition of 1860), be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows: |
“§ 23. If any person, after being served with such sum-
mons, fail to attend to give evidence, or to produce such
writing or document, according to the summons, the court
whose clerk issued the summons, or a commissioner in chancery
who had issued such summons, or if it was not issued by a
clerk or a commissioner in chancery, a court of the county or
corporation in which the attendance is desired, on a special
report thereof by the person or persons before whom there
was the failure to attend, on proof that there was paid to him (if
it was required by endorsement, on the process), a reasonable
time before he was required to attend, the allowance of one
days’ attendance and his mileage and tolls shall, after service
of a notice to, or rule upon him to show cause against it (if
no sufficient cause be shown against it), fine him not exceeding
twenty dollars, to the use of the party for whom he was sum-
moned; and said court or commissioner may. proceed, by at-
tachment, to compel him to attend and give his evidence at
such time and place as said court or commissioner may deem
fit. The witness shall, moreover, be liable to any party grieved,
tor damages. From any such fine, when imposed by a com-
missioner in chancery, the party shall have the right to appeal
to the court whose commissioner imposed the same.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.