Chap. 409.—An ACT to amend and reenact section 3214, as amended by an act
approved February 14, 1900, and by an act approved March 3, 1900. and sec-
tion 3218 of the Code of Virginia.

Approved December 10, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-two hundred and fourteen, as amended by an act approved Feb-
ruary fourteenth, nineteen hundred, and by an act approved March
third, nineteen hundred, and section thirty-two hundred and eighteen
a the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
ows:

§ 3214. The county or corporation in which actions at law or suits in
equity may be brought.—Any action at law or suit in equity, except
where it is otherwise specially provided, may be brought in any county or
corporation—

First. Wherein any of the defendants may reside.

Second. If a corporation be a defendant wherein its principal office is,
or wherein its mayor, rector, president, or other chief officer resides.

Third. If it be to recover a loss under a policy of insurance, either
upon property or life, wherein the property insured was situated, or the
persons whose life was insured resided, at the date of the policy.

Fourth. If it be to recover land, or subject it to a debt, or be against
a foreign corporation, which has estate or debts owing to it within this
State, wherein such land, estate, or debts, or any part thereof may be;
or if it be against a defendant who resides without, but has estate or debts
owing to him within this State, wherein such estate or debts, or any part
thereof may be, or in any county or corporation wherein he may be found
and served with process; or if it be against a defendant who resides with-
out, but has no estate or debts owing to him within this State, in any
county or corporation wherein he may be found and served with process.

Fifth. If it be on behalf of the Commonwealth, whether in the name
of the attorney-general or otherwise, it may be in the city of Richmond.

Sixth. If it be an action or a suit in which it is necessary or proper to
make any of the following public officers a party defendant, to-wit: The
governor, attorney-general, treasurer, register of the land office, either
audjtor, superintendent of public instruction, or commissioner of agri-
culture; or in which it may be necessary or proper to make any of the
following public corporations a party defendant, to-wit: The board of
education or other public corporation composed of officers of government,
of the funds and property of which the Commonwealth is sole owner; or
in which it shall be attempted to enjoin or otherwise suspend or affect
any judgment or decree on behalf of the Commonwealth, or any execu-
tion issued on such judgment or decree, it shall be only in the city of
Richmond.

Seventh. 1f a judge of a circuit court be interested in a case which but
for such interest would be proper for the jurisdiction of his court, the
action or suit may be brought in any county or corporation in an ad-
joining circuit.

§ 3218. Of mandamus, prohibition, and certiorari—Jurisdiction of
writs of mandamus, prohibition, and certiorari (except sueb as may be
issued from the court of appeals) shall be in the circuit court of the
county, or in the cirenit or corporation court of the corporation, wherein
the record or proceeding is, to which the writ relates,

2. This act shall be in force on and after February first, nineteen hun-
dred and four.