CHAPTER 248

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-511.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to personal actions on contract when the plaintiff is due less than
twenty dollars.

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Approved March 8, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
he That § 8-511.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 8-511.1. In any personal action on contract in a court of record,
wherein it is acertained that less is due to the plaintiff than twenty dollars,
exclusive of interest, judgment shall be given for the defendant, unless the
court enter of record that the matter in controversy was of greater value
than twenty dollars, exclusive of interest, in which case it may give judg-
ment for the plaintiff for what is ascertained to be due him, with or without
costs, as to it may seem right.