CHAP. 251.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 147,
Code of 1873, in relation to warrants for small claims.

Approved February 26, 1886.

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

§ 2. A justice, when applied to by any person, shall issue a
warrant to a constable, or if there be no constable in the district
in which the defendant resides, the warrant may be directed to
and executed by the sheriff of the county, requiring him to
summon the person against whom the claim is made, to appear
before him, or some other justice, on a certain day, not exceed-
ing thirty days from the date thereof, to answer such claim:
provided, no judgment shall be rendered within five days of the
service of such warrant. It shall be made returnable to some
place within the magisterial district in which the defendant re-
sides, or in which the cause of action arose, unless the justice,
for good cause shown on oath, direct it to be returned to some
other place within his county or corporation, and the constable
shall execute the said summons, or any other process issued by
a justice, whether original, mesne or final, in any part of his
county or corporation.

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