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VA Code § 8.01-471 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-471. Time period for issuing writs of eviction in unlawful entry and detainer; when returnable

Writs of eviction, in case of unlawful entry and detainer, shall be issued within 180 days from the date of judgment for possession and shall be made returnable within 30 days from the date of issuing the writ. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a writ of eviction not executed within 30 days from the date of issuance shall be vacated as a matter of law without further order of the court that entered the order of possession, and no further action shall be taken by the clerk. No writ shall issue, however, in cases under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (§ 55.1-1200 et seq.) if, following the entry of judgment for possession, the landlord has entered into a new written rental agreement with the tenant, as described in § 55.1-1250. A writ of eviction may be requested by the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney or agent.Code 1950, § 8-403; 1977, c. 617; 1999, c. 683; 2003, c. 427; 2006, c. 667; 2013, c. 63; 2019, cc. 180, 700.
VA Code § 8.01-472 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-472. Writs on judgments for personal property

When the judgment is for personal property, the plaintiff may, at his option, have a fieri facias for the alternative value, instead of a writ of possession, and the damages and costs.Code 1950, § 8-404; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-473 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-473. Judgment for benefit of other person than plaintiff; remedies of such person

When an execution issues on a judgment, for the benefit, in whole or in part, of any person other than the plaintiff, if the fact appears by the record, the clerk shall, in the execution, or by an endorsement thereon, state the extent of the interest therein of such person; and such person, either in his own name or that of the plaintiff, may, as a party injured, prosecute a suit or motion against the officer.Code 1950, § 8-405; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-474 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-474. What writ of fieri facias to command

By a writ of fieri facias, the officer shall be commanded to make the money therein mentioned out of the goods and chattels of the person against whom the judgment is.Code 1950, § 8-406; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-475 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-475. Subsequent executions

Subject to the limitations prescribed by Chapter 17 (§ 8.01-426 et seq.) of this title, a party obtaining an execution may sue out other executions at his own costs, though the return day of a former execution has not arrived; and may sue out other executions at the defendant's costs, when on a former execution there is a return by which it appears that the writ has not been executed, or that it or any part of the amount thereof is not levied, or that property levied on has been discharged by legal process which does not prevent a new execution on the judgment. In no case shall there be more than one satisfaction for the same money or thing.And the fact that a judgment creditor may have availed himself of the benefit of any other remedies under this chapter, shall not prevent him from issuing, from time to time, without impairing his lien under it, other executions upon his judgment until the same is satisfied.Code 1950, § 8-407; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-476 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-476. New execution after loss of property sold under indemnifying bond

When property sold under an execution, or its value, is recovered from an obligor on an indemnifying bond given before such sale, or from a purchaser having a right of action on such bond, the person having such execution, or his personal representative, may, by motion, after reasonable notice to the person, or the personal representative of the person, against whom the execution was, obtain a new execution against him, without credit for the amount for which the property was sold under the former execution. Such motion shall be made within the period of time prescribed by § 8.01-255.2.Code 1950, § 8-408; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-477 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-477. When executions may be quashed; how proceedings thereon stayed

A motion to quash an execution may, after reasonable notice to the adverse party, be heard and decided by the court which issued the execution. Such court, on the application of the plaintiff in the motion, may make an order staying the proceedings on the execution until the motion be heard and determined, the order not to be effectual until bond be given in such penalty and with such condition, and either with or without surety, as the court may prescribe. The clerk from whose office the execution issued, shall take the bond and make as many copies of the order as may be necessary and endorse thereon that the bond required has been given; and a copy shall be served on the plaintiff in the execution and on the officer in whose hands the execution is placed.Code 1950, § 8-410; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-477.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-477.1. Claims of exemption from execution

The procedures specified in § 8.01-546.2 shall govern further proceedings regarding claims of exemption from levy.1986, c. 341.
VA Code § 8.01-478 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-478. On what property writ of fieri facias levied; when lien commences

The writ of fieri facias may be levied as well on the current money and bank notes, as on the goods and chattels of the judgment debtor, except such as are exempt from levy under Title 34, and shall bind what is capable of being levied on only from the time it is actually levied by the officer to whom it has been delivered to be executed.Code 1950, § 8-411; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-479 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-479. Time for enforcement

Property levied on, on or before the return day, may be advertised and sold within a reasonable time thereafter, and the lien given by this section may also be enforced after the return day of the writ by proceedings under § 8.01-506 and following of this chapter, if such proceedings be commenced before that day.Code 1950, § 8-412; 1977, c. 617; 1984, c. 557.
VA Code § 8.01-480 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-480. Prior security interest on property levied on

Tangible personal property subject to a prior security interest, or in which the execution debtor has only an equitable interest, may nevertheless be levied on for the satisfaction of a fieri facias. If the prior security interest is due and payable, the officer levying the fieri facias may sell the property free of such security interest, and apply the proceeds first to the payment of such security interest, and the residue, so far as necessary, to the satisfaction of the fieri facias. In the event the property is to be sold free of such prior security interest, the judgment creditor shall give written notice by certified mail to each secured party of record as hereafter specified, as his name and address shall appear on record, of the proposed sale, or to any secured party of whom the judgment creditor shall have actual knowledge. Such notice shall be given to each secured party who is of record at the State Corporation Commission, at the Department of Motor Vehicles, at the Department of Wildlife Resources, or in the clerk's office in the city or county in Virginia, where the debtor has resided to the knowledge of the judgment creditor at any time during a one-year period prior to the sale. Certification of such notice shall be delivered to the sheriff or other officer conducting the sale pursuant to execution of the judgment, who shall announce that except as to such person so notified, the sale is subject to any prior security interest of record, other than one of record at a place where the debtor may have resided more than one year previously. If such prior security interest is not due and payable at the time of sale, such officer shall sell the property levied on subject to such security interest.Code 1950, § 8-413; 1977, c. 617; 1979, c. 491; 1990, c. 553; 2020, c. 958.
VA Code § 8.01-481 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-481. Territorial extent of lien

The lien given by this chapter on personal property by levy shall, as to property capable of being levied on, be restricted to the bailiwick of the officer into whose hands the execution is placed to be executed, but as to property not capable of being levied on the lien shall extend throughout the limits of the Commonwealth.Code 1950, § 8-414; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-482 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-482. If levy be on coin or currency, how accounted for

If the levy be on coin or currency (including notes) made a legal tender for the payment of debts, the same shall be accounted for at its par value as so much money made under the execution. If it be upon coin or currency (including notes) not a legal tender for the payment of debts, and the creditor will not take them at their nominal value, they shall be sold and accounted for as any other property taken under execution.Code 1950, § 8-415; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-483 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-483. Return of officer on fieri facias; statement filed therewith

Upon a writ of fieri facias, the officer shall return whether the money therein mentioned has been or cannot be made. If there is only part thereof which is or cannot be made, he shall return the amount of such part. With every execution under which money is recovered, he shall return a statement of the amount received, including his fees and other charges, and shall pay such amount, except such fees and charges, to the person entitled. In his return upon every execution, the officer shall also state in what manner a copy of the writ was served in accordance with § 8.01-487.1, whether or not he made a levy of the same, the date and time of such levy, the date when he received such payment or obtained such satisfaction upon such execution and, if there is more than one defendant, from which defendant he received the same.Code 1950, § 8-416; 1977, c. 617; 1986, c. 341.
VA Code § 8.01-484 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-484. When writ may be destroyed

A writ of fieri facias returned by the officer to the clerk's office with a notation that the money cannot be made may be destroyed after two years from the date of the return.Code 1950, § 8-417; 1962, c. 110; 1977, c. 617; 1988, c. 420.
VA Code § 8.01-485 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-485. When venditioni exponas may issue; proceedings thereon

When it appears by the return on an execution that property taken to satisfy it remains unsold, a writ of venditioni exponas may issue, whereupon the like proceedings shall be had as might have been had on the first execution; except, that if it issue upon a return of no sale for want of bidders, or of a sufficient bid, the advertisement shall state the fact, and that the sale will be made peremptorily.Code 1950, § 8-418; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-486 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-486. Procedure when officer taking property under execution dies before sale

If an officer taking property under execution die before the sale thereof, and there be no deputies of such officer acting in the case, upon a suggestion of the fact a writ of venditioni exponas may be directed to the sheriff or other officer of the county or city wherein the property was taken. Whereupon the officer to whom the writ is directed shall take possession of the property previously levied upon, whether the same be in possession of the representatives of the deceased officer or the execution debtor, and proceed to advertise and sell it and account for the proceeds thereof in like manner as if the levy had been made by himself.Code 1950, § 8-419; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-487 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-487. Officer to endorse on fieri facias time of receiving it

Every officer shall endorse on each writ of fieri facias the date and time he receives the same and also when he levies upon tangible personal property of the debtor.Code 1950, § 8-420; 1977, c. 617; 2009, c. 443.
VA Code § 8.01-487.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-487.1. Officer to leave copy of writ where levy made

An officer into whose hands a writ of fieri facias is placed to be levied, when making a levy shall serve a copy of the writ and any attachments thereto on the judgment debtor or other responsible person at the premises where the levy is made. If no such person is present, a copy of the writ and any attachments thereto shall be posted on the front door of such premises.1986, c. 341.
VA Code § 8.01-488 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-488. When several writs of fieri facias, how satisfied

Of writs of fieri facias, that which was first delivered to the officer, though two or more be delivered on the same day, shall be first levied and satisfied, and when several such executions are delivered to the officer at the same time they shall be satisfied ratably. But if an indemnifying bond be required by the officer as a prerequisite to a sale, and the same to be given by some of the creditors and not by others, and the officer sells under the protection of such bond, the proceeds of the sale shall be paid to the creditors giving the bond in the order in which their liens attached.Code 1950, § 8-421; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-489 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-489. Growing crops, not severed, not liable to distress or levy

No growing crop of any kind, not severed, shall be liable to distress or levy.Code 1950, § 8-421.1; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-490 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-490. No unreasonable distress or levy; sustenance provided for livestock; removal of property

Officers shall in no case make an unreasonable distress or levy. For horses, or any livestock distrained or levied on, the officer shall provide sufficient sustenance while they remain in his possession. Nothing distrained or levied on shall be removed by him out of his county or city, unless when it is otherwise specially provided.Code 1950, § 8-421.2; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-491 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-491. Officer may break open dwelling house and levy on property in personal possession of debtor

An officer into whose hands an execution is placed to be levied, may, if need be, break open the outer doors of a dwelling house in the daytime, after having first demanded admittance of the occupant, in order to make a levy, and may also levy on property in the personal possession of the debtor if the same be open to observation.Code 1950, § 8-422; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-492 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-492. Sale of property

In any case of goods and chattels which an officer shall distrain or levy on, otherwise than under an attachment, or which he may be directed to sell by an order of a court, unless such order prescribe a different course, the officer shall fix upon a time and place for the sale thereof and post notice of the same at least ten days before the day of sale at some place near the residence of the owner if he reside in the county or city and at two or more public places in the officer's county or city. If the goods and chattels be expensive to keep or perishable, the court from whose clerk's office the writ of fieri facias or the distress warrant was issued under which the seizure is made, or if the distress warrant was issued by a clerk, the court of which he is a clerk, may order a sale of the property seized under fieri facias or distress warrant to be made upon such notice less than ten days as to such court may seem proper. At the time and place so appointed, such officer shall sell to the highest bidder, for cash, such goods and chattels, or so much thereof as may be necessary.Code 1950, § 8-422.1; 1962, c. 10; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-493 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-493. Adjournment of sale

When there is not time, on the day appointed for any such sale, to complete the same, the sale may be adjourned from day to day until completed.Code 1950, § 8-422.2; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-494 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-494. Resale of property if purchaser fails to comply; remedy against such purchaser

If, at any sale by an officer, the purchaser does not comply with the terms of sale, the officer may sell the property, either forthwith or under a new advertisement, or return that the property was not sold for want of bidders. If, on a resale, the property be sold for less than it sold for before, the first purchaser shall be liable for the difference to the creditor, so far as is required to satisfy him, and to the debtor for the balance. This section shall not prevent the creditor from proceeding as he might have done if it had not been enacted.Code 1950, § 8-423; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-495 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-495. When money received by officer under execution to be repaid to debtor

When an officer has received money under execution, if any surplus remain in his hands after satisfying the execution, such surplus shall be repaid to the debtor; and if the debtor, or his personal representative, obtain an injunction or supersedeas to an execution, in whole or in part, before money received under it, or any part of it, is paid over to the creditor, the officer shall repay such debtor the money so received and not so paid over, or so much thereof as the injunction or supersedeas may extend to, unless such process otherwise direct.Code 1950, § 8-424; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-496 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-496. Officer not required to go out of his jurisdiction to pay over money

No officer receiving money under execution, when the person to whom it is payable resides in a different county or city from that in which the officer resides, shall be liable to have any judgment rendered against him or his sureties for the nonpayment thereof, until a demand of payment be made of such officer in his county or city, by such creditor or his attorney-at-law, or some person having a written order from the creditor.Code 1950, § 8-425; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-497 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-497. Suit by officer to recover estate on which fieri facias is lien

For the recovery of any estate on which a writ of fieri facias is a lien under this chapter, or on which the judgment on which such writ issues is a lien under Chapter 17 (§ 8.01-426 et seq.) of this title, or for the enforcement of any liability in respect to any such estate, a suit may be maintained, at law or in equity, as the case may require, in the name of the officer to whom such writ was delivered, or in the name of any other officer who may be designated for the purpose by an order of the court in which the judgment is entered. No officer shall be bound to bring such suit unless bond, with sufficient surety, be given him to indemnify him against all expenses and costs which he may incur or become liable for by reason thereof. But any person interested may bring such suit at his own costs in the officer's name.Code 1950, § 8-426; 1977, c. 617.
VA Code § 8.01-498 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-498. Selling officers and employees not to bid or to purchase

No officer of any city, town, county or constitutional officer or employee of any such city, town, county or constitutional office shall, directly or indirectly, bid on or purchase effects sold under a writ by such officer. Anyone violating this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.Code 1950, § 8-427; 1975, c. 84; 1977, c. 617; 1988, c. 674.
VA Code § 8.01-499 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-499. Officer receiving money to make return thereof and pay net proceeds; commission, etc.

An officer receiving money under this chapter shall make return thereof forthwith to the court or the clerk's office of the court in which the judgment is entered. For failing to do so, the officer shall be liable as if he had acted under an order of such court. After deducting from such money a commission of 10 percent and his necessary expenses and costs, including reasonable fees to sheriff's counsel, he shall pay the net proceeds, and he and his sureties and their representatives shall be liable therefor, in like manner as if the same had been made under a writ of fieri facias on the judgment.Code 1950, § 8-429; 1977, c. 617; 2004, cc. 198, 211.
VA Code § 8.01-500 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure|Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery|§ 8.01-500. Officer receiving money to notify person entitled to receive it

Every officer collecting or receiving money to be applied on any execution or other legal process, or on any claim, whether judgment has been rendered thereon or not, shall notify in writing by mail or otherwise, within thirty days after such money is received, the person entitled to receive such money, if known. Any officer failing without good cause to comply with this section within the time prescribed shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.Code 1950, § 8-430; 1977, c. 617.