Chap. 178.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled, “an act
to regulate the keeping, and making entries in the chancery and common law
order books in the several courts of this State,’ approved March 24, 1926, as
heretofore amended. [H B 172]

Approved March 13, 1936

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled an act to regulate the keeping, and making
entries in the chancery and common law order books in the several
courts of this State, approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-six, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 3, Upon the sitting of such court upon the opening day
of a new term thereof, the clerk shall enter, as the caption to the
day’s proceedings, in both said common law and chancery order books,
the following:

“At a circuit (or corporation, or hustings, or court of law and
chancery, as the case may be) court of the county (or city) of

. . at the courthouse of said court in said county (or city), on
(day of the week) the (day of month) day of (month) in the year
of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and . . and
in the one hundred and . . . . . year of our Commonwealth.

“Present: The honorable . . . . . ., judge.”

Each day’s proceedings shall be signed at the end of the record
thereof, without noting any adjournment of such court, except on the
final day of such term of such court. The record shall be signed by
the judge holding court that day.

At the head of each day’s proceedings there shall be entered as a
caption thereto:

“Circuit (or as the case may be) court of the county (or city) of

: on (day of week) the (day of month) day of (month)
in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and......

“Present: The honorable... . . . , judge.”

No corresponding entry shall be made in the order book unless
some item proper thereto shall be entered therein, except, that on the last
day of the then term, either on the order of the court, or by limitation of
law, the final adjournment of the court for that term shall be noted in both
order books, and properly signed by the judge of such court. All judg-
ments or decrees entered during any term of the court shall become final
at the end of the term or at the expiration of fifteen days after their
rendition, whichever period shall first happen.