Chap. 275.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5825 of the Code of Virginia, as
heretofore amended, relating to limitation of actions when prosecution of action
obstructed by defendant in certain cases, and to limitation of actions on foreign
contracts. [S B 278]

Approved March 27, 1940

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

Section 5825. As to Plaintiff When Suit Prevented by De-
fendant; When Right of Action on Foreign Contract Barred.—Where
any such right as is mentioned in this chapter shall accrue against a
person who had before resided in this State, if such person shall, by
departing without the same or by absconding or concealing himself,
or by filing a petition in bankruptcy or a petition for extension of
time within which to pay his debts in any court of the United States,
or by any other indirect ways or means obstruct the prosecution of
such right, the time that such obstruction may have continued shall
not be computed as any part of the time within which the said right
might or ought to have been prosecuted. But this section shall not
avail against any other person than him so obstructing notwith-
standing another might have been jointly sued with him if there had
been no such obstruction. Nor shall it apply to the provisions of
section sixty-four hundred and seventy-four.

Upon a contract which was made and was to be performed in
another state or country by a person who then resided therein, no
action shall be maintained after the right of action thereon is barred
either by the laws of such state or country or of this State.