. Buffcy, 196 Va. 1051, 86 S.E.2d 809 (1955) (the court gave a liberal interpretation to S 8-634, dealing with wrongful death); Street v. Consumers Mining Corp., 185 Va. 561, 575, 39 S.E.2d 271, 277 (1946) (the court said that the pur- pose of a statute of limitations is to prevent fraudulent and stale claims