Chap. 515.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6022 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to justices of the peace. [H B 225]

Approved March 25, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six thousand and twenty-two of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6022. How and when warrant tried and judgment given;
when justice shall associate with himself other justices.—The justice
shall try such warrant according to the principles of law and equity,
and give judgment for the sum due to either party, with interest, or
for the property to which the plaintiff is entitled (or its value), with
damages. Costs shall be awarded or refused to either party on like
principles. In the trial of all warrants, both civil and criminal, upon
application of the defendant, made at least one day before trial, to the
justice of the peace, who issued said warrant and before whom it 1s
returnable, such justice shall associate with himself two other justices
of the peace of the county, who shall try said warrant, and in case of
disagreement in opinion, the opinion of the majority shall prevail; but
no such trial of any civil warrant shall be had within five days after the
service of the warrant, except with the consent of the parties. Judg-
ments rendered against the defendant on such warrants after applica-
tion has been made as aforesaid, shall be null and void if rendered
solely by the justice of the peace who issued the warrant.