Chap. 137.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1920 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to appeals from certain courts with respect to
delinquent, dependent and neglected children, so as to prescribe the courts in
the city of Richmond to which such appeals will lie. [SB 195]

Approved March 6, 1940

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

Section 1920. Appeals.—An appeal may be taken by any party
aggrieved, from any final order or judgment of the court in the case
of any child coming within the provisions of this act, to the circuit
court of the county or to any city court having equity jurisdiction,
within twenty days after the entering of said order or judgment in
said case. Proceedings in such cases in such courts shall conform to
the equity practice where evidence is taken ore tenus; provided,
however, that an issue out of chancery may be had as a matter of
right upon the request of either party. In the city of Richmond such
appeals shall, as to matters arising within the said city north of the
James River, or arising upon the islands therein, be to the Hustings
Court of the city of Richmond, and as to matters arising within the
said city south of the James River such appeals shall be to the Hust-
ings Court of the city of Richmond, Part Two.