CHAPTER 552

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-198 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
selection of juries under certain circumstances. fH 862]

Approved April 5, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

ta That § 8-198 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 8-198. In any civil case in any court to be tried by a jury, the
court, or the judge thereof in vacation, may, in its or his discretion, upon
motion of either party after reasonable notice to the adverse party if it or
he be satisfied that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had by a jury
selected from the county or corporation in which the trial is to be, order
such number of persons, not less than * thirteen, qualified to serve on
juries, as the court or judge may prescribe, to be summoned from an
adjacent county or city. A writ of venire facias shall be issued for the
purpose, directed to the sheriff or sergeant, to summon the number of
persons specified, from a list to be furnished either by the judge of the
court in which such case is pending or by the judge of the circuit or
corporation court of the county or city from which the jurors are to be
summoned and from those summoned a jury shall be selected in the manner
provided by § 8-192. A writ of venire facias awarded under this section
may be directed to and executed by the sheriff or sergeant of the county
or corporation in which the trial is to be had, or from which the jurors
are to come.
An Act to amend and reenact § 8-240 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to when payment or setoff allowed in certain cases. CH 858]

Approved April 5, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

: 1 That § 8-240 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 8-240. Unless otherwise provided by Rules of Court adopted by
the Supreme Court of Appeals, in an action at law, when the plaintiff's
claim is based upon a contract, although * such claim * be jointly against
several persons, and the * counterclaim is of a debt not to all but only to
* part of them, the * counterclaim may nevertheless be asserted if it appear
that the persons against whom * the plaintiff claims stand in the relation
of principal and surety and the person entitled to the * counterclaim is
the principal.