CHAP. 286.—An ACT to authorize the filing of a petition in a pending chancery
cause In the clerk’s office, and to mature the same at rules.

Approved February 9, 1895.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any person
who would be entitled to be admitted a party to a chancery cause pend-
ing in any court, by leave of such court for the purpose of asserting a
right or seeking relief therein, may file a petition in the clerk’s office of
such court in vacation, making all persons so affected by the relief
prayed for in such petition, whether parties to the main cause or not.
parties defendant, and to have issued thereon a summons to the said
defendants, returnable to rules or to the next term, to answer the same.

And said defendants may make any defense to such petition as they
could have made if process had been awarded by a court, by demurrer,
plea, answer, or otherwise, filing the same at rules or at term.

And when such petition shall have been matured, depositions may be
taken in relation to issues raised thereby.

But a defendant to such petition shall have the same right to move to
dismiss the same that he would have to resist an application to court for
leave to file it.

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