Mosby v. St. Louis Mutual Insurance

Citations

• 31 Va. 629

Syllabus

<p>1. The act, Code of 1849, eh. 16, §18, Code of 1873, eh. 15, §13, which provides that if by a new law, repealing a former law, any penalty, forfeiture or punishment be mitigated by any provision of the new law, such provision may, with the consent of the parties affected, be applied to any judgment pronounced after the new law takes effect, applies to forfeiture in civil as well as criminal cases.</p> <p>2. Though the statute of usury, at the time a contract was made, declares the contract to be null and void, if at the time of the decree in the ease the statute has been amended and only avoids the contract for the interest, the decree should be for the principal loaned, with interest from the date of the decree.</p>