Chap. 125.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6477 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to issuing executions and bringing scire facias or action. [S B 136]

Approved March 6, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-four hundred and seventy-seven of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 6477. Limitation of Proceedings to Enforce Judgment;
the Return by Officers on an Execution On a judgment, execution may
be issued, and a scire facias or an action may be brought within ten years
after the date of the judgment, and where execution issues within ten
years, other executions may be issued, or a scire facias or an action may
be brought within ten years from the return day of an execution issued
at any time within said ten years, on which there is no return by an of-
ficer, or within twenty years from the return day of any such execution
on which there is such return ; except that where the scire facias or action
is against the personal representative of a decedent, it shall be brought
within five years from the qualification of such representative. If, how-
ever, a return be made on an execution more than ten years after the
return day thereof, it shall not extend the lien of the judgment beyond ten
years from such return day as against a purchaser for value of real estate
from the judgment debtor who acquired title prior to the time such re-
turn was actually made. Any return by an officer on an execution showing
that the same has not been satisfied, shall be a sufficient return within the
meaning of this section.