CHAP. 488.--An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to lien on crops for advances to farmers ; nature of agreement therefor ; where and in what manner docketed and the effect thereof and the clerk's fee ther...

§ 2494. Lien on crops for advances to farmers; nature of agreement thereof; where recorded.--If any person other than a landlord make advances, either in money or sup. plies, to any one who is engaged in or is about to engage in the cultivation of the soil, the person so making such advances shall be entitled to a lien on the crops which may be made or seeded during the year upon the land, in or about the cultivation of which the advances so made have been or were intended to be expended, to the extent of such advances: provided, however, that an agreement in writing shall be entered into before any such advances are made, in which shall be specified the amount to be advanced, or in which a limit shall be fixed, beyond which the advances made, from time to time, during the year, shall not go, and the said agreement be delivered to the clerk of the county court in which the land lies, and by him docketed in a book to be kept by him for that special purpose; such agreement shall be docketed by said clerk in the same manner that judgments are now required by law to be docketed, and shall have the same force and effect as if they were recorded in the deed-book, and for such service said clerk shall receive a fee of twenty-five cents.