Chap. 649.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3251 of the code of Virgi-
nia relating to forms of actions and declarations on policy of insurance.

Approved March 3, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand two hundred and fifty-one of the code of Virginia
relating to declarations on policy of insurance be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

3251. Declaration on policy of insurance.—In an action on a pol-
icy of insurance no particular form of action or declaration shall be
necessary, but it shall be sufficient for the plaintiff to file a com-
plaint in writing at common law, setting forth the grounds of his
action and the relief prayed for, and filing therewith the original
policy, or a sworn copy thereof, upon which his action is brought,
and the loss or death relied upon as the ground of his recovery, and
that he has performed all the conditions of said policy and violated
none of its prohibitions, and in such complaint it shall not be neces-
sary to set forth every condition or proviso of said policy, nor to
aver observance of or compliance therewith “ seriatum,’’ but a general
averment to that effect shall suffice. Such complaint shall be filed
in the same court and at the same time at which a declaration in
such cases is now required bylaw; and such action shall be matured
in the same manner as at present.

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