CHAPTER 506

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 19-120 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to sureties on recognizances.
[S 260]

Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

i That § 19-120 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 19-120. A surety in a recognizance may at any time * arrest his
principal and surrender him to the court before which the recognizance
was taken * or before which such principal’s appearance is required; in ad-
dition to the above authority, upon the application of the surety, the court,
or the clerk thereof, before which the recognizance was taken, or before
which such principal’s appearance is required, shall issue a capias for the
arrest of such principal, and such capias may be executed by such surety,
or his authorized agent, or by any sheriff, sergeant or police officer, and
the person executing such capias shall deliver such principal and such
capias to the sheriff or jailer of the county or the sergeant or jailer of the
city in which the appearance of such principal is required, and thereupon
the said surety shall be discharged from liability for any act of the princt-
pal subsequent thereto. Such sheriff, sergeant or jailer shall thereafter
deliver such capias to the clerk of such court, with his endorsement thereon
acknowledging delivery of such principal to ‘his custody.