Chap. 373.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3455 of the Code of Virgini
in relation to petition for appeal, writ of error, or supersedeas, when pro
hibited, as amended by an act approved January 18, 1888.

Approved December 10, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section thre
thousand four hundred and fifty-five of the Code of Virginia as amendet
by an act approved January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.
eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3455. When prohibited.—No petition shall be presented for an ap
peal from, or writ of error or supersedeas to, any final judgment, decree
cr order, whether the Commonwealth be a party or not, which shall have
been rendered more than one year before the petition is presented, ex.
cept as provided by section thirty-four of an act relating to the State cor.
poration commission, approved April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
three; nor to any judgment of a circuit or corporation court, which 1
rendered on an appeal from a judgment of a justice, except in cases wher
it is otherwise expressly provided; nor to a judgment, decree, or order
of any court when the controversy is for a matter less in value or amount
than three hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, unless there be drawn in
question a freehold or franchise or the title or bounds of land, or the ac-
tion of the State corporation commission or some matter not merely pe-
cuniary: provided, however, that if the final decree from which an appeal
is asked is a decree refusing a bill of review to 3 decree rendered mor
than six months prior thereto, no appeal from or supersedeas to such de-
cree so refusing a bill of review shall be allowed unless the petition be
presented within six months from the date of such decree.

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