Chap. 31.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2967 of the Code of Virginia
in relation to attachments.

Approved February 19, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-nine hundred and sixty-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2967. On what estate attachment may be levied; how debts, etc., at-
tached ; how levy made; how, when real estate is attached; how attach-
ment served..—Every attachment (except where it is sued out specially
against specified property) may be levied on any estate, real or personal,
or when it is against a non-resident or an absconding debtor, amy re-
mainder, whether vested or contingent, of the defendant, or so much
thereof as is sufficient to pay the amount for which it issues, and may
be levied upon any estate of the defendant, whether the same be'in the
county or corporation in which the attachment issued, or in any other,
either by the officer of the county or corporation wherein the attachment
issued, or by the officer of the county or corporation where the estate is;
and when levied on a contingent remainder, the said contingent re-
mainder shall not be sold until it becomes vested, but the decree or
judgment ascertaining the amount due the plaintiff may be docketed as
other liens are docketed, and shall be a lien only on the property levied
on. The plaintiff, his agent or attorney may, by an endorsement on the
attachment at the time it is issued, or in writing at any time before the
return day thereof, designate any person as being indebted to, or having
in. his possession effects of, the defendant or one of the defendants; and
in such case the officer issuing the attachment shall make as many copies
thereof as there are persons designated, with an endorsement on each
copy that the person so designated is required to appear at the term of
the court to which the attachment is returnable, and disclose on oath in
what sum he is indebted to the defendant, and what effects of the de-
fendant he has in his hands. It shall be sufficiently levied, if sued out
against specified property, by serving the attachment on the defendant,
or other person having possession of such property; in every other case,
by serving the attachment on such persons as may be designated by the
plaintiff as aforesaid; and, where the defendant is in possession, by ser-
vice of the attachment on him; and as to real estate, by such estate being
mentioned and described in an endorsement on such attachment, made
by the officer to whom it is delivered for service, to the following effect:

“Levied on the following real estate of the defendant A. B. (or A. B.
and C. D.), to-wit: (Here describe the estate), this the day of

E. F., Sheriff (or other officer).

and by service of the attachment on the person, if any, in possession of
such estate. The attachment in every case may be served as a notice 1s
required to be served by section thirty-two hundred and seven.