Chap. 279.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5970 of the Code of Virginia
relating to the opening of a court of record, its sitting, and providing for cases
where such a court fails to meet on the day appointed or to which it is ad-
journed. [S 235]

Approved March 17, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That section fifty-nine hundred and seventy of the Code of Vir-
ginia be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 5970. Provision for opening a court, or for its sitting, where
it fails to meet on day appointed or to which it is adjourned.—Though a
court be not held on the first day of a term, it may nevertheless be opened
on any subsequent day, if, in the case of a circuit or corporation court,
the same is done before four o’clock in the afternoon of the third day.
After a court is opened it shall, during the term, adjourn from day to
day, unless the court shall order otherwise, and if it fail to sit on any
day to which it is adjourned, it may nevertheless sit on any subsequent
day of the term.