Chap. 297.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2266 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact see-
tion 2266 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved
January 17, 1896, relating to divorces, approved March 16, 1903.

Approved May 20, 1903.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty -two hundred and sixty-six of the ( ‘ode of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by an act approved January
seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as amended and reen-
acted by an act approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three,
entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section twenty-two hundred and
sixty-six of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act
approved January seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, re-
lating to divorces, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§ 2266. When and how a decree for divorce from bed and board may
be revoked, or mav be merged into a decree of divorce from the bonds
of matrimony.—When a decree for a separation forever, or a limited
period, has been made in a suit for a divorce from bed and board, it may
at anv time thereafter, upon the joint application of the parties, and
the production by them of satisfactory evidence of their reconciliation,
be revoked by the same court which made it, and under such regulations
and restrictions as the court may impose. And when three years shall
have elapsed after the entering of a decree for a divorce from hed and
board, upon any other ground than that of desertion, and in any case
where desertion is the ground for divorce when three vears shall have
elapsed from the time of such desertion, upon application of the party
injured, and upon the production of satisfactory evidence, whether taken
theretofore or in support of such application, the court may merge such
decree for divorce from bed and board into a decree for a divorce from
the bonds of matrimony: provided, the court shall be of opinion, from
the evidence taken in the suit and in support of the said application,
that no reconciliation has taken place, or is probable, and that a separa-
tion has continued without interruption since the granting of such di-
vorce.