Chap. 255.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by incorporating therein a
new section to be designated 6383-a, providing for attachments on bill in
chancery. [H B 314]

Approved March 24, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be, and it is hereby, amended by the enactment, and
incorporation therein, of a new section to be designated as section sixty-
three hundred and eighty-three-a, to read as follows:

Section 6383-a. When a person has a claim, legal or equitable, to
any specific personal property, or a like claim to any debt, whether such
debt be payable or not, or to damages for the breach of any contract,
express or implied, if such claim exceed twenty dollars, exclusive of
interest, he may, on a bill in equity filed for the purpose, alleging any
one or more of the grounds mentioned in section sixty-three hundred
and seventy-nine and verified by the affidavit of himself, his agent or
attorney, have an attachment to secure and enforce the claim according
to the nature of the case, except that if the claim be to a debt not
payable, the affidavit shall also state the time when it will be payable.
Upon such affidavit, the plaintiff may require the clerk to endorse on a
summons an order to the officer to whom it is directed to attach the
specific property (if any be mentioned in the affidavit), and the debts
owing by other defendants (if any) to the defendant against whom
the claim is, and also any other estate of that defendant, whether in his
own hands or in the hands of other defendants. Any attachment under
this section shall be executed in the same manner, and shall have the
same effect as at law, but the proceedings therein shall be the same as
in other suits in equity. And the court, or the judge thereof in vaca-
tion, may interpose by injunction, or the appointment of a receiver or
otherwise, to secure the forthcoming of the specific property sued for,
and so much other estate as will probably be required to satisfy any
future order or decree that may be made in the cause. This section
shall not be construed as giving to a court of equity jurisdiction to
enforce by the attachment a claim to a debt not payable, where the only
ground for the attachment is that the defendant, or one of the de-
fendants, against whom the claim is, is a foreign corporation, or is not
a resident of this State, and has estate or debts owing to the said de-
fendant within the county or corporation in which the suit is, or is sued
with a defendant residing therein. The remedy herein provided for
shall be cumulative to any existing remedy by attachment. |