Chap. 194.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4053 of the Code of 1887,
as re-enacted by an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact sections 4050,
4051, and section 4052, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1898;
sections 4053, 4057, 4060, 4073, and section 4074, amended by an act ap-
proved March 3, 1896, of chapter 198 of the Code of Virginia, approved
December 10, 1903.

Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four thousand and fifty-three of the Code of eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, as re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and
re-enact sections four thousand and fifty, four thousand and fifty-one,
and section four thousand and fifty-two, as amended by an act ap-
proved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; sections four
thousand and fifty-three, four thousand and fifty-seven, four thousand
and sixty, four thousand and seventy-three, and section four thousand
and seventy-four, as amended by an act approved March third, eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, of chapter one hundred and ninety-eight of
the Code of Virginia,” approved December tenth, nineteen hundred
and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to.read as follows:

§4053. Where to lie to judgments for contempt of court.—
To a judgment for a contempt of court a writ of error shall lie
to the supreme court of appeals. This section shall also be construed
to authorize a writ of error to a judgment of a circuit court rendered
on appeal from a judgment of a justice for contempt.