Chap. 334.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5106 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. (S B 121]
Approved March 19, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-one hundred and six of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 5106. How instituted and conducted; marriage license to be
filed with bill—Such suit shall be instituted and conducted as other
suits in equity, except that the bill shall not be taken for confessed,
nor shall a divorce be granted on the uncorroborated testimony of
the parties or either of them; and, whether the defendant answer or
not, the cause shall be heard independently of the admissions of
either party in the pleadings or otherwise; and no process or notice in
such proceedings shall be served in this State, except by officers
authorized to serve the same. Costs may be awarded to either party
as equity and justice may require.

With every bill praying a divorce, whether a mensa et thoro or a
vinculo matrimonii, there shall be filed a duly certified copy of the
marriage license with certificate of time and place of marriage by the
person who performed the ceremony if the marriage is alleged to have
taken place in this State, except where it is alleged in said bill that
such certified copy cannot be obtained, unless the same shall have been
lost or destroyed.