Chap. 582.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5465 of the Code of Vir-
ginia; relating to evidence in actions of ejectment and unlawful detainer in
certain cases. [S B 170]

Approved April 1, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five thousand four hundred sixty-five of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5465. In any action, suit or other judicial proceeding in-
volving the title to land embraced in the exterior boundaries of any
patent, deed, or other writing, which reserves one or more parcels of
land from the operation of such patent, deed or other writing, if there
be no claim made by a party to the proceeding that the land in con-
troversy, or any part thereof, lies within such reservation, such patent,
deed, or other writing, shall be construed, and shall have the same
effect, as if it contained no such reservation; and if any party to such
proceeding claims that the land in controversy, or any part thereof,
lies within such reservation, the burden shall be upon him to prove
the fact, and all land not shown by a preponderance of the evidence
to lie within such reservation shall be deemed to lie without the same.

This act shall apply in cases involving the right to the proceeds of
land condemned or sold, as well as in cases where the title to land is
directly involved, and shall apply in any case in which the title to any
part of the land, or its proceeds, but for this act, would or might be in
the State.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage, and shall apply to pending as well as future proceedings.