64.1-78 - Appeal from order of clerk.
§ 64.1-78. Appeal from order of clerk.
Any person interested may, within six months after the entering of such anorder, appeal therefrom as a matter of right, without giving any bond, to thecourt whose clerk, or deputy, has made the order. Upon application being madefor such appeal, the clerk or deputy shall enter forthwith in his order bookan order allowing such appeal, and docket the same as a preferred cause fortrial at the next term of the court. The court at any term shall hear anddetermine the matter as though it had been presented to the court in thefirst instance, and shall cause a copy of the order on the order book of thecourt embracing its final action to be copied by the clerk, or deputy, intohis order book. At any time after such appeal is allowed the court, or thejudge thereof in vacation, may make any such order for the protection of theparties interested or for the protection or preservation of any propertyinvolved as might have been made had the matter been originally presented tothe court, or as may seem needful.
(Code 1950, § 64-74; 1968, c. 656.)