CHAP. 403.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3603 of the Code of
Virginia, relative to interrogatories. (H. B. 142.)

Approved March 21, 1916.

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

Sec. 3603. To ascertain the estate on which a writ of fieri
facias is a lien and to ascertain any real estate in or out of this
State to which a debtor named in such fieri facias is entitled
upon the application of the execution creditor, the judge or
commissioner in chancery of any court of record from which
the fieri facias issued may, either in term or vacation, issue a
summons requiring the execution debtor or any officer of a cor-
poration debtor having any office in this State or any debtor or
bailee of his or its, requiring him or them to appear before one
of the commissioners of any circuit or corporation court at a
time or place to be designated in the said summons to answer
such questions as shall be propounded to him or them at such
time and place by the counsel of the execution creditor or the
commissioner, except that such summons shall not be served out
of the county or corporation in which such commissioner resides.
The debtor served with summons shall appear at the time and
place mentioned and make answers under oath to such ques-
tions. If he fail to appear and answer or make any answers
which are deemed by the commissioner to be evasive, the com-
missioner may by rule returnable to a future day, or forthwith
require the said debtor or his debtor or bailee to show cause why
an attachment may not be issued against him or them to compel
him or them to answer the questions aforesaid or any others
which he may deem pertinent. But the commissioner shall enter
his proceedings and report to the court mentioned in section
three thousand six hundred and five any and all objections taken
by such debtor against answering such questions or any or
either of them, and if the court afterwards sustain any one or
more of said objections the answers given to such questions as
to which objections are sustained shall be held for naught in
that or any other cause.