Chap. 228.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5962 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to recordation of court proceedings and to judges of courts signing court
order books, so as to provide how such books may be signed when the judge of
a court dies without having signed in the order books, all the orders or decrees
endorsed for entry by him, and entered of record in said books. {[S B 242]

Approved March 16, 1940

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

Section 5962. How Proceedings of Court Are Drawn Up, Read
and Signed.—The proceedings of every court shall be entered in a
book kept for the purpose to be known as the order book. The pro-
ceedings of each day shall be drawn up at large, and read in open
court, by the clerk thereof, at the next session of the said court, except
those of the last day of a term, which shall be drawn up and read the
same day. After being corrected where it is necessary the record
shall be signed by the presiding judge. In the event of the judge of a
court dying without having signed all of the orders or decrees en-
dorsed by him for entry and entered in the order books of the court
by the clerk thereof, it shall be lawful for either the judge appointed
to fill the vacancy caused by such death, or any judge appointed to
preside over said court until such vacancy is filled, to sign such of
said orders or decrees so entered of record, as had not been signed by
the judge who endorsed them for entry, and when so signed, they
shall be of the same force and effect as if they had been signed by
said judge in his lifetime.