Chap. 124.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of chapter 166
of the Code of 1873, in relation to the rehearing of Cases.

Approved February 19, 1884.

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

§16. Any unknown party or other defendant, who was
not served with process, and did not appear in the case betore
the date of such judgment, decree, or order, or the represen-
tative of any such, may, within two years from that date,
petition to have the case reheard and plead or answer, and
have any injustice in the proceedings corrected.

2. This act shall be in force on and after the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.