Chap. 280.—An ACT in relation to the removal of causes, and to

repeal chapter 170 of the Code of 1873, and all acts amendatory

thereof.
Approved March 1, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
a county court wherein a suit, motion, or other civil proceed-
ing is pending, may, on the motion of any party, after twenty
days’ notice to the adverse party or his attorney, order the re-
moval of the case to any other convenient county court, or to
the circuit court to which, if it had been decided, it might have
been taken on appeal, writ of error, or supersedeas.

2. On like motion, and after like notice, a circuit or corpo-
ration court, or the judge thereof in vacation, may order any
suit, motion, or other civil proceeding pending therein, to be
removed to any other circuit or corporation court.

3. If the judge of any county, circuit, or corporation court,
in which a suit, motion, or other civil proceeding is pending,
is so situated as to render it improper, in his opinion, for him
to decide such case, or to preside at the trial thereof, such
court, or the judge thereof in vacation, may, without motion
or notice, order the case to be removed to any court to which
it might be removed, on motion and notice under the two pre-
ceding sections.

hen any case is ordered to be removed under this chap-
ter, the clerk of the court from which, shall transmit to the
clerk of the court to which it is removed, the original papers
therein, with the copies of all rules and orders made, and a
statement of the cost incurred by each party therein; where-
upon the case shall be proceeded in, heard and determined by
the court to which it is removed, as if it had been brought and
the previous proceedings had in said court. The cost attend-
ing such removal shall be charged, as may be thought just, by
the court from which, or if it made no order on the subject, by
the court to which the case is removed: provided, however,
that any motion, action, suit or other proceeding in the corpo-
ration court of the city of Alexandria, shall be removed as of
right to the circuit court having jurisdiction over such corpo-
ration, on the motion of any party thereto, but twenty days’
notice of the motion for such removal shall be given to the
other party or parties, or his or their attorneys.
5. Chapter one hundred and seventy, Code of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-three, and all acts amendatory thereof, and
chapter three hundred and twenty of Session Acts of eighteen
hundred and eighty-three, four, approved March seventh,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and all acts inconsistent
with this act, are hereby repealed.

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