No process shall issue upon any appeal, writ of error or supersedeas allowed by a circuit court, or in the case of an order of rejection the Supreme Court of Appeals, or judge of either of such courts to or from a judgment, decree or order, if, when the record is delivered to the clerk of the appropriate court, four months (or the extended period or periods, if any, allowed by order pursuant to either section four or section seven of this article, as the case may be) shall have elapsed since the date of such judgment, decree or order; but the appeal, writ of error or supersedeas shall be dismissed whenever it appears that four months or the extended period, if any, as the case may be, has elapsed since such date before the record is delivered to such clerk, or that two months have elapsed since the date when the appeal, writ of error or supersedeas was granted before such bond is given as is required to be given before the appeal, writ of error or supersedeas takes effect.
West Virginia Legal Code