Chap. 317.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6503 of the Code of Virginia,

relating to ascertainment of the estate on which a writ of fiert facias is a
lien. fH B 178]
Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-five hundred and three of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6503. Proceedings by interrogatories to ascertain estate
of debtor on which fieri facias is a lien, and any real estate to which he
is entitled—To ascertain the estate on which a writ of fiert facias is
a lien, and to ascertain any real estate, in or out of this State, to which
a debtor named in such fieri facias is entitled, upon the application of
the execution creditor, the clerk of the court from which the execution
issued, or if it was issued by a justice other than a civil justice or a
civil and police justice, the clerk of the circuit court of the county or
the corporation court of the city in which such justice resides, shall issue
a summons against the execution debtor, or any officer of a corporation
debtor having an office in this State, or any debtor or bailee of his or its,
requiring him or them to appear before such commissioner in chancery
to be named in the summons, at a time and place to be designated in
said summons, to answer such interrogatories as shall be propounded to
him or them by counsel of the execution creditor or the commissioner,
but such summons shall not be served out of the county or city in which
such commissioner resides or maintains an office. The debtor or other
person served with such summons shall appear at the time and place
mentioned and make answer to such interrogatories. The commissioner
shall enter in his proceedings and report to the court mentioned in
section sixty-five hundred and five, any and all objections taken by
such debtor against answering such interrogatories, or any or either
of them, and if the court afterwards sustain any one or more of said
objections, the answers given to such interrogatories as to which ob-
jections are sustained, shall be held for naught in that or any other
cause.