Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia

That section thirteen of chapter sixty-four of the code Section 13 of of West Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to chapter 61 code read as follows:

amended.

may be revoked

and restric

posed.

Evidence.

13. When a decree for a separation forever, or for a Decree from limited period, shall have been pronounced in a suit for bed and board: divorce from bed and board, it may be revoked at any time thereafter by the same court by which it was pro- By what court. nounced under such regulations and restrictions as the Regulations court may impose, upon the joint application of the tins to be imparties, and upon their producing satisfactory evidence who to ar ply of their reconciliation; and when a divorce from bed therefor and board has been decreed for abandonment, or deser- For abandontion, or other cause, and two years shall have elapsed tion, etc., time from the bringing of the suit wherein such decree is to elapse, etc.. entered, without such reconciliation, the court may upon cation for a dithe application of the injured party, and the production som of satisfactory evidence, taken in support of such appli, rimony. cation, decree a divorce from the bonds of matrimony former hearing and upon such application the court may read and con- ered. sider the evidence in the cause taken and filed in the former hearing; Provided, The court shall be of the

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opinion that no reconciliation is probable, and this shall what decrees apply to such decrees heretofore, as well as hereafter entered.

(Approved February 14, 1895.)

[NOTE BY THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. The foregoing act takes effect at the expiration of ninety days after its passage.].

Acts amended.

certain actions

demnifying

bond.

utor, adminis

(Senate Bill No. 77.)

CHAPTER 2.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter one hundred and four of the code of West Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by chapter one hundred and two of the acts of the Legislature of one thousand eight hundręd and eighty-two, concerning limitation of suits.

[Passed February 21, 1895.]

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section 6 of chapter one hundred and four of the code of West Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by chapter one hundred and two of the Acts of the Legislature of 1882, concerning the limitation of suits, be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

6. Every action to recover money, which is founded Time in which upon an award, or on any contract other than a judgto be brought. ment or recognizance, shall be brought within the following number of years next after the right to bring Upon an in- the same shall have accrued, that is to say: if the case be upon an indemnifying bond taken under any statute, Bond of exec- or upon a bond of an executor, administrator or guartrator, etc. dian, curator, committee, sheriff or deputy sheriff, clerk Contracts by or deputy clerk, or any other fiduciary or public officer, writing under within ten years; if it be upon any other contract by before the first writing under seal, executed before the first day of day of April, April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, within After that date, twenty years; but if executed on or after that day, or contract by within ten years; if it be upon an award, or upon a conder seal. tract by writing, signed by the party to be charged

seal, executed

1869.

Upon an award

writing not un

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