Chap. 237.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6122 of the Code of Vir-
ginia as to when a defendant in equity may file his answer or other pleading.

[S B 97]
Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-one hundred and twenty-two, of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6122. A defendant in equity upon whom process has been
executed shall file his answer or other defense in the court or in the
clerk’s office of the court in which the suit or proceeding is pending
within ninety days from the day on which process has been returned
executed, or if the bill shall not have been filed at that time, then within
ninety days after the bill shall have been properly filed at rules, or after
any amended or supplemental bill shall have been filed unless after
notice to the adverse party, and for good cause shown, additional time
be given by the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, within which to
file the same. After the lapse of such period of ninety days, or such
additional time, if any such be granted, no answer or other defense
shall be received except for good cause shown and upon payment to
the complainant of his costs up to that time, or such part thereof as
the court or judge shall deem reasonable, and unless the defendant will
undertake to file his answer within such time as the court or judge
shall direct, and submit to such other terms as the court or judge
shall direct, for the purpose of speeding the cause; provided, however,
that if a demurrer or plea to the jurisdiction or other special plea be
interposed by the defendant, the said defendant shall have at least thirty
days after the disposition of said plea or pleas or demurrer within
which to file his answer or other defense; provided, however, that no
answer can be filed after a bill has been taken for confessed and a final
decree entered in the cause.