Chap. 192.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 149,
of Code of 1873, in regard to forthcoming bonds taken for proper ty,
the sale of which has been suspended.

Approved March 12, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, of the
Code of eigbteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 7. The sheriff or other officer levying a writ of fieri facias
or distress warrant on property, the sale of which is sus-
pended under this chapter, at the instance of a claimant
thereof, may, if such claimant desire the property to remain
in such possession as it was iminediately before the levy, and
if the case be one in which a bond for the forthcoming of the
property is not probibited from being taken from the debtor
by the sixth section of chapter one hundred and eighty-five,
take from the claimant a bond, with sufficient surety, in a
penalty equal to double the valine of the property, payable
to the creditor, with such recital as is required: in a forth-
coming bond taken from the debtor, and with condition that
the property shall be forthcoming at such day and place of
sule as may be thereafter lawfully appointed; whereupon,
such property may be permitted to remain, at the risk of
such claimant, in such possession as it was immediately be-
fore the levy, and the second, third, fifth, sixth, and seventh
sections of chapter one hundred and cighty- five, shall apply
to such forthcoming bond in like manner as to a forthcoming
bond taken from the debtor.