Chap. 26.—An ACT toamend and re-enact the Ist and 2d sections of
chapter 170, Code of 1873, in relation to the removal of causes pend-
ing in one court to another.

Approved January 14, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and two of chapter one hundred and seventy of
the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. On the motion of any party to a suit, motion or other
proceeding in a county or corporation court, who desires to
remove the same to the circuit court having jurisdiction over
said county or corporation, or to any other county, circuit, or
corporation court, the court may, after twenty days’ notice to
the adverse party, order such removal; or whenever, in the
opinion of the county or corporation court, or the judge thereof,
it is improper for said judge to try the same, the said county
or corporation court may order such removal; or upon like
motion, the said circuit court, or the judge thereof in vacation,
after twenty days’ notice to the adverse party, may order such
removal to the said circuit court.

§ 2. On the motion of any party to a suit in the circuit
court, the said circuit court may order it to be removed to any
other circuit or corporation court. The judge of said court, in
vacation, may make such order after reasonable notice to the
adverse party. The order of removal may be made by the
court or judge, without motion or notice, when the judge is so
situated as to render it improper, in his judgment, for him to
decide or preside at the trial of the cause.

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

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