Chap. 806.—An ACT to define what shall be a lawful fence in Virginia.

Approved March 8, 1804.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That every
fence five feet high, which if the fence be on a mound shall include
the mound to the bottom of the ditch, shall be deemed a lawful fence
as to any of the stock named in section two thousand and forty-two
of the code of Virginia, which could not creep through the same.

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