Chap. 566.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 2961 of the code of Virginia, relative to attachments,
approved January 30, 1890.

Approved March 2, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-nine hundred and sixty-one, as amended and re-enacted by
an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section twenty-nine
hundred and sixty-one of the code of Virginia, approved January
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, relative to attachments, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2961. Attachment against debtor removing his effects out of the
state, whether claim payable or not. On complaint by any person,
his agent or attorney, whether the claim of such person is payable
or not, to a justice of the county or corporation in which the debtor
against whom the claim is resides, or in which he has estate or debts
owing to him, or if he has removed from the state in which he last
resided, or in which he has estate or debts owing to him, or if he
has never resided in the state in which he has estate or debts owing
to him, or if such debtor be a corporation in which such corporation
has estate or debts owing to it, that the said debtor intends to
remove or is removing, or has removed his effects out of this state,
so that there will probably not be therein effects of such debtor suffi-
cient to satisfy the claim when judgment is obtained therefor,
should only the ordinary process of law be issued to obtain the
judgment, if such person, his agent or attorney make oath to the
truth of the complaint to the best of his belief as well as to the
amount and justice of the claim, and if the same is not payable at
what time it will be payable, the justice shall issue an attachment
against the estate of the debtor for the amount so stated.

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