Chap. 246.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6252 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to bills of exceptions. [S B 113]

Approved March 24, 1930

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

Section 6252. In the trial of a case of law in which an appeal,
writ of error, or supersedeas lies to or from a higher court, a party
may except to any opinion of the court and tender a bill of exceptions
which, if the truth be fairly stated therein, the judge shall sign and it
shall be a part of the record in the case. Any bill of exceptions may
be tendered to the judge at any time before final judgment is entered
or within sixty days from the time at which such judgment is entered,
whether another term of said court has intervened or not, and the
judge shall endorse thereon the date on which such bill was so tendered
to him; and any bill of exception so tendered to the judge as aforesaid,
either in term time or in vacation, may be signed by him, although
said sixty days’ period shall have elapsed when so signed, provided
such bill shall be signed within seventy days of the time such judg-
ment is entered; but before the court, or judge in vacation shall sign
any bill of exception so tendered it shall appear in writing that the
opposite party or his attorney has had reasonable notice of the time
and place at which said bill of exception is to be so tendered to the
court or judge; and when any bill of exception tendered the judge
shall have been so signed such bill of exception shall be forthwith
delivered or transmitted to the clerk of the court in which the case is
pending; and any bill of exception so tendered to and signed by the
judge, as aforesaid, either in term time or in vacation, shall be a part
of the record of the case. The same rule shall apply when cases are
heard. or judgments are rendered in vacation, in which case the party
excepting shall have sixty days from the day that such judgment is
rendered. This section shall apply to criminal as well as civil cases.