Chap. 4.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5935 of fke Code of Virginia,
relating to the court of law and chancery of the city off Norfolk. [H B 3]

Approved February 3, 1934

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

Section 5935. The said court of law and chancery shall have con-
current jurisdiction with the circuit court and the corporation court of
the said city of Norfolk in all matters concerning the probate and
recordation of wills, the appointment, qualifications and removal of
fiduciaries and the settlement of their accounts, and in granting and
hearing writs of mandamus, prohibition, and quo warranto, or informa-
tion in the nature of quo warranto, and original and general jurisdiction,

concurrent with the circuit court and exclusive of the corporation court
in said city, of all suits and proceedings in chancery and of all such
civil cases at law, within said city, as are cognizable by the circuit court
of the city of Norfolk, including motions to recover money. And said
court of law and chancery shall have concurrent jurisdiction with said
circuit court and said corporation court of proceedings of forcible and
unlawful entry and detainer; and concurrent jurisdiction with said cir-
cuit court of appeals and removals from the civil justice.

And the said court, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall have the
same power to award injunctions and writs of habeas corpus, and to
admit to bail, as are now or may hereafter be conferred upon the circuit
courts in this Commonwealth, or the judges thereof, respectively.

And any duty devolved or power or jurisdiction conferred, or which
may hereafter be devolved or conferred by law on the circuit courts of
this Commonwealth, or the judges thereof, respectively, shall, unless
otherwise expressly provided, be deemed to be also devolved or con-
ferred on the said court of law and chancery of the city of Norfolk,
or the judge thereof, respectively, except as to matters of which the
corporation court of the said city shall have exclusive jurisdiction.