Chap. 208.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for
the taking and preservation of oral evidence in chancery causes, approved
March 20, 1930. [H B 310]

Approved March 23, 1932

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide for the taking and preservation of oral evi-
dence in chancery causes, approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred
and thirty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. In any chancery cause except for the sale of lands of
infants and insane persons the court, on its own motion, or upon mo-
tion of any party, complainant or defendant, may, in its discretion,
direct that the whole, or any part, of the evidence be taken and heard
orally before the court, and the court may require such evidence to be
taken and preserved as a part of the record in such cause; provided,
however, that no such oral evidence shall be given or heard unless and
until after such notice to the adverse party as is required by law to be
given of the taking of deposition, or when there has been no service
of process within this State upon or appearance by the defendant
against whom such testimony is sought to be introduced.