CHAPTER 535

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 20-100 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the filing of certificates evidencing marriage with bills for divorce.

[S 350]
Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 20-100 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 20-100. With every bill praying a divorce, whether a mensa et
thoro or a vinculo matrimonii, there shall be filed a duly certified copy of
the marriage license, with certificate of time and place of marriage by the
person who performed the ceremony, if the marriage is alleged to have
taken place in this State, except where it is alleged in the bill that such
cortvted ory cannot be obtained, unless the same shall have been lost or

lestroyed.
In lieu of such certified copy of the marriage license, there may be
filed an abstract of the information appearing upon the marriage register
of the court from which such marriage license issued, which abstract shall
be duly certified by the clerk of such court.