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Volume | 1883/1884 |
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Law Number | 116 |
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Chap. 116.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 of chapter 172
of the Code of 1873, in relation to Depositions taken out of the state.
Approved February 16, 1884.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-five of ‘chapter one hundred and seventy-two of
the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 35. The depositions of a witness who resides out of this
state, or 1s out of it in the service thereof, or of the United
States, may be taken before any commissioner appointed by
the governor of this state, or any justice or notary public of
the state wherein the witness may be, or by any persons
that the parties may agree upon in writing, and if the depo-
sition is to be taken in a foreign country, before any person
that the parties may agree upon in meeting, or any Ameri-
can minister, plenipotentiary, charge d'atfairs, consul- general,
vice-consul, or commercial agent appointed by the govern-
ment of the United States, or the mayor or other magistrate of
any city, town, or corporation in such country, or any notary
public therein. Any person before whom a deposition may
he so taken, may administer an oath to the witness, and take
and certify the deposition with his official seal annexed; and
if he have none, then the genuiness of his signature shall be
authenticated by some officer of the same state or country,
under his official seal, unless the deposition is taken. by a
justice out of this state, but in the United States, or before
some person agreed upon in meeting by the parties, in which
case his certificate shall be received without any seal annexed,
or other authentication of his signature. When a deposition
is taken before some person agreed upon in meeting by the
parties other than the officer authorized to take the deposi-
tion, the said writing shall be returned with the deposition,
and it shall not be read unless it is so returned.
2. This act shall be in force trom its passage.