Chap. 208.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8398 of the code, in relation
to how judgment entered on bond for the payment of money.

Approved January 30, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-three hundred and ninety-three of the code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

3393. How judgment entered on bond for payment of money.—
When there is a recovery on a bond with condition for the payment
of money, the judgment shall be for the penalty of the bond to be
discharged by the payment of the principal and the interest due
thereon, but when the judgment is against a surety of limited liability in
such bond the sum to be paid by such surety in discharge thereof, shall not
exceed the amount to which he has limited his liability on sard bond.

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