CHAP. 90.—An ACT to prevent insurance companies and other insurere
from printing the conditions and other restrictive conditions in small
type.
Approved February 20, 1878.
Whereas it is the custom of many insurance companies to
issue policies of insurance with conditions and other restric-
tive provisions printed in small type, difficult to be read and
likely to escape the attention of the insured:
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
in any action against an insurance company or other insurer,
founded upon a policy of insurance issued after the first day
of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, no failure to
perform any condition of the policy, nor violation of any
restrictive provision thereof, shall be a valid defence to such
action, unless it appears that such condition or restrictive
provisions is printed in type as large as or larger than that
in which this act of assembly is printed, td-wit: that com-
monly known as long primer type, or is written with pen
and ink in or on the policy.