Chap. 57.—An ACT to provide for commencing civil actions to be tried by civil
and police justices, civil justices and trial justices by notice of motion, and
to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the trial of civil cases by a
civil and police justice on motion, approved March 15, 1924. [fH B 10]

Approved March 2, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That any
person entitled to maintain an action at law or civil warrant before a
civil and police justice or civil justice of a city or trial justice of a
county may, in lieu of such action at law or civil warrant, proceed by
motion before said civil and police justice, civil justice or trial justice,
after not less than five days’ notice, which notice shall be in writing,
signed by the plaintiff or his attorney, and shall be returned to the
justice before whom it is to be tried before the return day of same and
when so returned shall be forthwith docketed. This act shall not apply
to cities having a population of not less than one hundred and twenty-
five thousand nor more than one hundred and fifty thousand according
to United States census of nineteen hundred and thirty.

The said notice shall contain a brief informal statement of the
plaintiff’s claim.

All notices under this section shall be served in the same manner
that civil warrants are served and shall be tried in the same manner
that civil warrants are now tried before such justices.

2. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to provide for the trial of civil cases by a civil
and police justice on motion, approved March fifteenth, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-four, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.