Code of Virginia - Title 8.01 Civil Remedies And Procedure - Chapter 17 Judgments And Decrees Generally

8.01-426 "Judgment" includes decree
A decree for land or specific personal property, and a decree or order requiring the payment of money, shall have the effect of a judgment ...

8.01-427 Persons entitled under decree deemed judgment creditors; execution on decree
The persons entitled to the benefit of any decree or order requiring the payment of money shall be deemed judgment creditors, although the money be ...

8.01-427.1 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1978, c. 426, effective March 31, 1978. ...

8.01-428 Setting aside default judgments; clerical mistakes; independent actions to relieve party from judgm...
A. Default judgments and decrees pro confesso; summary procedure. - Upon motion of the plaintiff or judgment debtor and after reasonable notice to the opposite ...

8.01-429 Action of appellate court when there might be redress under { 8.01-428
No appeal shall be allowed by the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court or any judge or justice thereof for any matter for which ...

8.01-430 When final judgment to be entered after verdict set aside
When the verdict of a jury in a civil action is set aside by a trial court upon the ground that it is contrary to ...

8.01-431 Judgment or decree by confession in pending suit
In any suit a defendant may, whether the suit be on the court docket or not, confess a judgment in the clerk's office for so ...

8.01-432 Confession of judgment irrespective of suit pending
Any person being indebted to another person, or any attorney-in-fact pursuant to a power of attorney, may at any time confess judgment in the clerk's ...

8.01-433 Setting aside judgments confessed under { 8.01-432
Any judgment confessed under the provisions of § 8.01-432 may be set aside or reduced upon motion of the judgment debtor made within twenty-one days ...

8.01-433.1 Notice of confession of judgment provision
No judgment shall be confessed upon a note, bond, or other evidence of debt pursuant to a confession of judgment provision contained therein which does ...

8.01-434 Lien of such judgments
The clerk shall enter on the margin of the record of any judgment confessed under the provisions of § 8.01-432, the day and hour when ...

8.01-435 Who may confess judgment
Confession of judgment under the provisions of § 8.01-432 may be made either by the debtor himself or by his duly constituted attorney-in-fact, acting under ...

8.01-436 Form of confession of judgment
On the presentation of any such power of attorney as is mentioned in § 8.01-435 by any of the persons therein named as attorney-in-fact, or ...

8.01-437 Endorsement of clerk thereon
When a judgment is so confessed, the clerk shall endorse upon such confession, or attach thereto, his certificate in manner and form substantially as follows: ...

8.01-438 When judgment confessed by attorney-in-fact copy to be served on judgment debtor
If a judgment is confessed by an attorney-in-fact, it shall be the duty of the clerk within ten days from the entry thereof to cause ...

8.01-439 Filing of records by clerk
Such confession and clerk's certificate, together with the power of attorney if the confession be by an attorney-in-fact, and the note, bond or other obligation, ...

8.01-440 Docketing and execution
The clerk shall forthwith docket such judgment in the current judgment lien docket in his office and shall issue execution thereon as he may be ...

8.01-441 When judgment confessed by virtue of power of attorney invalid
No judgment confessed in the office of the clerk of any circuit court in this Commonwealth, by virtue of a power of attorney, shall be ...

8.01-442 In joint actions on contract plaintiff, though barred as to some, may have judgment against other...
In an action or motion, founded on contract, against two or more defendants, although the plaintiff may be barred as to one or more of ...

8.01-443 Joint wrongdoers; effect of judgment against one
A judgment against one of several joint wrongdoers shall not bar the prosecution of an action against any or all the others, but the injured ...

8.01-444 Where new parties added; if some not liable, how judgment entered
If it shall appear at the trial that all the original defendants are liable, but that one or more of the other persons added under ...

8.01-445 Distinction between term and vacation abolished; effect of time
The distinction of what a court may do in term as opposed to vacation is hereby abolished. The period of time provided for the doing ...

8.01-446 Clerks to keep judgment dockets; what judgments to be docketed therein
The clerk of each court of every circuit shall keep in his office, in a well-bound book, or by microphotographic or electronic process allowed by ...

8.01-446.1 Keeping of docket books by clerk of court using micrographic process; form
Whenever judgments are docketed in the judgment lien book in the office of the clerk of the circuit court and are recorded by a procedural ...

8.01-447 Docketing of judgments and decrees of United States courts
Judgments and decrees rendered in the circuit court of appeals or a district court of the United States within this Commonwealth may be docketed and ...

8.01-448 Attorney General, etc., to have judgments in favor of Commonwealth docketed
Whenever a judgment is recovered in favor of the Commonwealth, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General or other attorney representing the Commonwealth, ...

8.01-449 How judgments are docketed
A. The judgment docket required by § 8.01-446 may be kept in a well-bound book, or any other media permitted by § 17.1-240. The date ...

8.01-450 How indexed
Every judgment shall, as soon as it is docketed, be indexed by the clerk in the name of each defendant, as required by § 17.1-249, ...

8.01-451 Judgments to be docketed and indexed in new names of judgment debtors; how execution may thereafte...
Whenever there is a judgment docketed and indexed, as required by § 17.1-249, and thereafter a judgment debtor whose name is so recorded changes his ...

8.01-452 Entry of assignment of judgment on judgment lien docket
Whenever there shall be an assignment of a judgment, there may be a notation of the assignment made upon the judgment docket, where the same ...

8.01-452.1 Disposal of exhibits in civil cases
A clerk of court, after sixty days have elapsed from the entry of judgment in a civil case or, if the civil case is appealed ...

8.01-453 When and how payment or discharge entered on judgment docket
The fact of payment or discharge, either in whole or in part, of any judgment so docketed, and if there is more than one defendant, ...

8.01-454 Judgment, when paid, to be so noted by creditor
In all cases in which payment or satisfaction of any judgment so docketed is made, which is not required to be certified to the clerk ...

8.01-455 Court, on motion of defendant, etc., may have payment of judgment entered
A. A defendant in any judgment, his heirs or personal representatives, may, on motion, after ten days' notice thereof to the plaintiff in such judgment, ...

8.01-456 Satisfaction of judgment when judgment creditor cannot be located
Whenever a judgment debtor or anyone for him or any party liable on the judgment wishes to pay off and discharge a judgment, of record ...

8.01-457 Marking satisfied judgments for Commonwealth; payment by third parties releasing recognizance...
It shall be the duty of the clerks of the circuit courts of this Commonwealth, upon the payment of any judgment in favor of the ...

8.01-458 From what time judgment to be a lien on real estate; docketing revived judgment
Every judgment for money rendered in this Commonwealth by any state or federal court or by confession of judgment, as provided by law, shall be ...

8.01-459 Priority of judgments
Judgments against the same person shall, as among themselves, attach to his real estate, and be payable thereout in the order of the priority of ...

8.01-460 Decree for support and maintenance of spouse or infant children of parties as lien on real estat...
A decree, order or judgment for support and maintenance of a spouse or of infant children of the parties payable in future installments or a ...

8.01-461 Abstracts of judgments
An abstract of any judgment shall, upon request to the clerk of the court wherein the judgment is rendered, be granted to any person interested ...

8.01-462 Jurisdiction of equity to enforce lien of judgment; when it may decree sale
Jurisdiction to enforce the lien of a judgment shall be in equity. If it appear to the court that the rents and profits of all ...

8.01-463 Enforcement of lien when judgment does not exceed twenty dollars
If the amount of the judgment does not exceed twenty dollars, exclusive of interest and costs, no bill to enforce the lien thereof shall be ...

8.01-464 Order of liability between alienees of different parts of estate
When the real estate liable to the lien of a judgment is more than sufficient to satisfy the same, and it, or any part of ...

8.01-465 Chapter embraces recognizances and bonds having force of judgment
The foregoing sections of this chapter, so far as they relate to the docketing of judgments, the entering of satisfaction thereof, and the liens of ...