An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
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Chap. 259.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 6501 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to lien of fieri facias on estate of debtor not capable of
being levied on. {S 201]
Approved March 16, 1948
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That section sixty-five hundred and one of the Code of
Virginia, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:
Section 6501. Lien of fieri facias on estate of debtor not
capable of being levied on.—Every writ of fieri facias shall, in
addition to the lien it has under section sixty-four hundred and
eighty-five on what is capable of being levied on under that section,
be a lien from the time it is delivered to a sheriff or other officer
to be executed, on all the personal estate of or to which the judg-
ment debtor is, or may afterwards and on or before the return day
of the said writ become, possessed or entitled, and which, from its
nature is not capable of being levied on under the said section,
except such as is exempt under the provisions of chapter two
hundred and seventy-four, and except that, as against an assignee
of any such estate for valuable consideration, the lien by virtue of
this section shall not affect him unless he had notice thereof at the
time of the assignment, and, as against a person making a payment
to the judgment debtor, the said lien shall not affect him, unless
and until he be given written notice thereof setting forth the name
of the person against whom obtained, by whom obtained, the
amount and costs of the judgment, the date recovered, the date of
the issuance or renewal of execution thereon, the return day of
execution, and the date of placing of the execution in the hands of
officer, and unless said notice shall be personally signed by the
plaintiff or his attorney and shall have been duly served upon
such assignee or person making payment and judgment debtor by
an officer authorized to serve civil process.
Whoever serves a notice of lien of a writ of fieri facias without
there being a judgment against the defendant named therein, shall
pay to him the sum of fifty dollars, and whoever serves a notice of
lien of a writ of fieri facias before the issuance of a writ of fieri
facias, or after the return day thereof, or serves or in any way
given a notice of a lien of fieri facias by means other than by service
by officer authorized to serve civil process, shall pay to the named
defendant the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recoverable as
damages in an action at law, in addition to whatever damages may
be alleged and proven. But nothing herein contained shall be
construed as imposing liability upon any person serving a notice
under this act if a judgment has been obtained and the lien notice
is served during the life of an execution.