Chap. 353.—An ACT to Amend Section 4, Chapter 152, Code of Virginia
(1860), as Amended by Act passed December 17, 1866, so as to Provide
that an Indemnifying Bond shall be Conditioned also to Indemnify the
Claimant of the Property Levied on Against Damages.

Approved October 31, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the fourth section of chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the
Code of Virginia, as amended by an act passed December sev-
enteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

“$4. If any officer levies, or is required to levy, an execu-
tion or a warrant of distress on property, or to attach money
or property under an attachment, issued either by a justice of
the peace or by the clerk of any court, and a doubt shall arise
whether the said money or property is liable to such levy or
attachment, he may give the plaintiff, his agent or attorney at
law, notice that an indemnifying bond is required in the case;
bond may thereupon be given by any person, with good secu-
rity, payable to the officer, in a penalty equal to double the
value of the property, conditioned to indemnify him against all
damages which he may sustain in consequence of the seizure
or sale of said property, and to pay to any claimant of such
property all damages which he may sustain in consequence of
such seizure or sale; and also to warrant and defend to any
purchaser of the property such estate or interest therein as is
sold.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.