Chap. 191.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new
section numbered 5191-b, relating to the rights of the parties under certain con-
tracts for the sale of personal property wherein the title thereto or a lien thereon
is reserved to secure unpaid purchase money, [S B 229]

Approved March 15, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto.a new
section numbered fifty-one hundred ninety-one-b, as follows:

Section 5191-b. Where there is a written contract between the
vendor and vendee whereby the title to any personal property or a lien
thereon is reserved to secure the unpaid purchase money and the vendor
or his assignee sues the vendee in an action of detinue, the court or
Justice shall determine all questions arising out of, or under, the contract,
which are properly made by the pleadings, and render such judgment
as shall seem right and proper. It may order the property, or so much
thereof as will pay the vendor the amount owing, sold; or order the
property, or so much thereof having a value equal to the amount owing
the vendor, returned to him.