Chap. 251.—An ACT to make the failure to pay for or refusal to return goods,
wares and merchandise sold for cash on delivery larceny in certain cases.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That whenever
any licensed merchant shall sell any goods, wares, or merchandise for
cash on delivery, and shall deliver the same, and the person to whom or
to whose agent they are delivered shall, within twenty-four hours after
written demand shall have been made upon him, with fraudulent intent,
fail to pay for or refuse to return the same, such person shall be deemed
guilty of the larceny thereof. But the provisions of this act shall not
apply unless such written demand be made within twenty-four hours
after the delivery, and unless the goods, wares or merchandise shall have
attached to them, or to the package in which they are contained, a label
or tag containing the words “sold for cash on delivery.”