Chap. 413.—An ACT to amend and re-enact clause 2 of an act of the general
assembly of Virginia entitled an act to establish a court of law and chan-
cery for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, which was approved March 10,

1910. [H B 450]
Approved March 27, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
clause two of an act entitled an act to establish a court of law and
chancery for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, which was approved
mr tenth, nineteen hundred and ten, be re-enacted and amended
as follows:

Clause 2. That the said court of law and chancery shall have
concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court and the corporation
court of Roanoke in all matters concerning the probate and the
recordation of wills, the appointment, qualification and removal of
fiduciaries and the settlement of their accounts, and in granting and
hearing writs of mandamus, prohibition and quo warranto, or in-
formation in the nature of quo warranto, and original and general
jurisdiction with the circuit and corporation courts of said city of
all suits and proceedings in chancery, of all such civil cases at law
within said city as are cognizable by the circuit court or corporation
court of Roanoke, including motions to recover money, actions of
forcible or unlawful entry and detainer, distress warrants and attach-
ments for rent.

And the said court, and the clerk thereof, shall, within the terr-
torial jurisdiction thereof, have the same powers and be charged with
the same duties relative to the taxation of inheritances as are con-
ferred and laid upon the chancery court of the city of Richmond,
and the law and chancery court of the city of Norfolk, and the
clerks of such courts, by section forty-four of an act of the general
assembly entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the
government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the
public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized
by section one hundred and eighty-nine of the constitution, approved
April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and acts amendatory
thereof. And the said court, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall
have the same powers to award injunctions and writs of habeas
corpus, and admit to bail, as are now or may hereafter be conferred
upon the circuit or corporation courts of this Commonwealth, or the
judges thereof in vacation, and shall have the same jurisdiction of
such matters and of all other matters cognizable in said court which
are now or may hereafter be granted to the judges of the circuit or
corporation courts in vacation in like matters.

Any duty devolved or power of jurisdiction conferred, or which
may hereafter be devolved or conferred by law on the circuit courts
of this Commonwealth, or the judges thereof, respectively, shall,
unless otherwise provided, be deemed to be also devolved or con-
ferred on the said court of law and chancery of the city of Roanoke,
or the judge thereof, respectively, except as to matters of which the
corporation court of the said city shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

In every case involving a claim to specific personal property, or
to any debt, fine, or other money, or to damages for breach of any
contract, or for any injury done to property, real or personal, cogniz-
able by a justice in the said city and in which the amount or thing
in controversy exceeds the sum of value of twenty dollars, the justice
shall, upon the application of the defendant, and upon affidavit that
he has a substantial defense thereto, at any time before trial remove
the cause, and all the papers thereof, to the said court of law and
chancery for the city of Roanoke, and the clerk of the said court shall
forthwith docket the same, but such cause shall not be tried at any
term except by consent of the parties thereto, unless it shall have
been so docketed ten days previous thereto. On such trial the pro-
ceedings shall conform to section thirty-two eleven of the Code of
Virginia.

‘And from any judgment such as is mentioned in section twenty-
nine forty-seven of the Code of Virginia, of any justice within the
corporate limits of the city of Roanoke, an appeal may be taken to
the said court of law and chancery for the city of Roanoke in the
manner and subject to the conditions provided by the said section
twenty-nine forty-seven of the Code of Virginia. And such appeal
shall docketed. and trial had thereon as appeals are docketed and
tried in cases where judgments of justices are appealed from to the
corporation courts of the Commonwealth.

‘The removals and appeals provided for by this act shall be at the
option of persons desiring to remove such cases or appeals from such
judgments as are mentioned herein to the said court of law and
chancery of the city of Roanoke or to the corporation court of the
city of Roanoke.