Chap. 340.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3287 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to office judgments.

Approved March 14, 1908.

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

§3287. When judgment entered in office to become final; how
entered ; its effect as a lien Every judgment entered in the office in a
case wherein there is no order for an inquiry of damages, and every
non-suit or dismission entered therein, shall, if not previously set aside,
become a final judgment, if the case be in a circuit court, of the last
day of the next term or the fifteenth day thereof (whichever shall happen
first), or if the case be in the circuit court of the city of Richmond, or
in the law and equity court of the said city, and be matured at the
rules, and docketed during the term of the court, of the last day of said
term, and if it be in a corporation court of the last day of the next
term designated for the trial of civil cases in which juries are required,
or of the fifteenth day thereof (whichever shall happen first), and have
the same effect, by way of lien or otherwise, as a judgment rendered in
the court at such term. Every such judgment for any plaintiff shall be
for the principal sum due, with interest thereon from the time it be-
came payable (or commenced bearing interest), till payment, unless it

be in such action as is mentioned in section twenty-eight hundred and
fifty-three, in which case it shall be according to that section; provided,
that no judgment by default on a scire facias or summons shall become
final within two weeks after the service of such process.