Chap. 411.—An ACT to amend chapter 248 of the Code of Virginia by adding
thereto a new section to be numbered section 5960-a relating to the authority of
the court of appeals to prescribe forms and regulate the practice of the courts.

[S B 118]

Approved March 23, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
two hundred and forty-eight of the Code of Virginia be and it is
hereby amended by the addition thereto of a new section to be num-
bered fifty-nine hundred and sixty-a immediately following section
fifty-nine hundred and sixty, as follows:

Section 5960-a. Power is hereby conferred upon the supreme court
of appeals of Virginia to make, publish and put into operation such
rules and regulations for maturing common law and chancery causes
in the trial courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia, from time to time,
as may in the opinion of said court best promote the ends of justice and
prevent delay in its administration; and when said rules and regula-
tions shall have been so made and published, wherever they are in con-
flict with the rules now required to be taken in the clerks’ offices on
what is known as “rule days” in order to mature cases, the rules
and regulations so made by the court of appeals shall in all respects
supersede and take the place of the said rule days in said clerks’ offices
in all the trial courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and all
statutes providing for such rule days, so far as in conflict therewith
shall be and are repealed. This act shall be liberally construed so as to
get rid of unnecessary delays and expense.

And the rules and regulations as adopted from time to time shall
be certified to every court of record in this State, and the clerk of
each of said courts of record shall duly and promptly copy or post
same in regular order, properiy indexed, in a book kept by him for
that purpose; provided the said rules and regulations shall not become
effective until sixty days from the adoption thereof and said rules and
regulations shall be printed by the public printer, when requested by
the supreme court of appeals of Virginia, and distributed as public
documents.