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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0698 and id is 1 raw text is: SALES UNDEIR LEGAL PROCESS.-PROCESS ON INDICTMENTS. 01.
dio or marry, the court may nevertheless proceed, if in its opinion all Wheroona of -
classes of interests in the ease are represented, and the interests of ti dies or
one will be prejudiced by the trial of the cause, to render a decree in Decreeomaybo
such suit us if such person were alive or had not married ; decrecing rWetnde-red o
to tile heirs at law, distributoes or reprcsentativcs of such person (11s the decree.
case nay reqnire) such interest as such person would have becn entitled
to, had such person hen alive, or as if such person had not married
during the pendeney of this suit.
2. file provisions of the thirteenth section of chapter one hundred Rights of absent
and seventy of the Code of Virginia shall apply to decrees entered ertis to a ro.
unlder this act. iv years.
3. This act shall he in force from its passage. See Code, p. 645.
Commencement
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CHAP. 3.-Au ACT concerning sales, by officers, of goods and chattels.
Passed March 30, 1E53.
1. Be it en-cted by the general assembly, that tile thirty.seventh see- Se Code, p. 253
tion of chapter forty-nine of the Cede of Virginia shall be and is hereby
nmended so that the said sectioti, as re-enacted with such amendment,
shall hereafter read its follows :
§ :37. In any case of goods and chattels, which an officer shall dis-lHownotlcetobe
train or levy upon, otherwise than linder an attachment which ie ma1y giveu of 1ales.
bo directed to sell by Iil order of a court, judge or justice, (unless such
order prescribe a ditl'eorent course,) he shrill fix upon it time aud place for
the sale thereof, uid puhish notice of the srlme fiu at lolns ten lays t
some place near ihe residee of the owner, if lie reside it the county
or corporation, and at two or more public places in the ollicer's county,
city or district. If the goods and chittels le slaves, mules, work oxenll goods ha
or horses, notice ol ie sale, which shall be conductcd as prescribed in slava, mulesand
the next succeeding section of tie Code, shall he phlished ait tho door or5Oes. or
of the conrho wit of such olficer's COulnty or corporation. At the time |low sato con.
ald plrce so appointed the o ficer shlall sell to the highest biddc ifor cash,dueted.
tie said gools ad chitlis, Orl au litich thereof as inay be necessary.
2. '['his act shall be in forco front its passnige. Commencement
CItAr. 4.-An ACT relatig to lirocres ill idilctelits, presCllillils aind
illibirillirililns iagiilit corpiorp tiOli.
Pa~sed Mtarch Q9, 185i.
1. Be it eiacted by the gencral ascmbly, that on any indictment, Se- Code, p. 643.
presenment ol iiiformnationg ainist a corplorttion, if it slmnionus hoWhen defendant
Served according to the seventh section of chapter one huntred and court toproce.
seventy of the Code of Virginia, and the defeniiiait fail to ap peril, the
coit inay proceed to trial and1 julgn out, without further llrocess, as
if the defendant had alipearcd and pleaded not guilty. And where, in any Costs,how paid.
such cas5c, publication of a copy of the process is required according to
the said section, the expenuse of such piil ic ation ,iy le ccrtificd by the
coirt to the aiditor of public lcconlits, ind shiall be paid out of tile
treisury of the comnonwealth ; but the sanie shall le taxed with other
costs, anLl cllceted frot tile defeidlil t, if jiidgineit tie for the ca iliol-
wealth, ani be paid into the treaslry by time ollicer collecting the sonc.
2. This act shall be in force froni its passage. Commencemesit
ftlil', 35.-An ACT to aienld the 131h sectionio chnipter 185 of the Code of
Virgioiii ill relation to copts of'slilS in the coiris o this Coll] ounil ll% lth.
Passed Mtarch 28, 1P.53.
1. Ie it enacted by the general assembly, that the thirteenth section See Code, p. 70G.
of chapter one hundred and eighty-five of the Code of Virginia be re-
enacticl and ameded so as to read as follows:
-, § 13. lie shalil include in the costs, for the fee of such party's attor. Attorney's fee.
hey, (if lie have ole :) Iit a county or corporation court, oi ni a ppealAppeal from
froit the judgent of it justice, one dollar and twenty-five cents; in a. tle._
circuit, county or corporation cotrt, utless it lie it case of judgment by In original sut.
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