Chap. 375.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 15, Chapter 187,
of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) in Relation to Writs of Fieri
Facias.

Approved March 26, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifteen of chapter one hundred and eighty-seven of the
Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty) be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

§ 15. Upon a writ of fieri facias the officer shall return
whether the money therein mentioned is or cannot be made, or
if there be 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
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such amount, except the said fees and charges, he sl all pay to
the person entitled. wn

Upon the return of said writ of fieri facias, satisfied in whole
or in part, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to

- which said fieri facias is returnable to enter upon the judgment

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docket, as well as the execution docket, the return of said
officer; and in case a judgment or a writ of fieri facias issued
thereon, or any part thereof, is collected by the party entitled
to receive the same, or his attorney, it shall be the duty of said
party or attorney to cause to be entered upon such dockets
(when the judgment is docketed) the satisfaction thereof, when
paid in full, and when paid only in part, to enter upon the same
a credit for the amount so paid. When a judgment, or a writ
of fieri facias issued thereon, is returned satisfied, in whole or
in part, and said judgment is docketed in a court or courts
other than that from which said writ issued, it shall be the
duty of the plaintiff, or his attorney, in such case to furnish
the clerk of the court or courts in which said judgment is dock-
eted a transcript of the return in said fieri facias, certified by
the clerk of the court from whose office the said writ issued;
and where the judgment is otherwise settled, in whole or in
part, the said plaintiff shall furnish the clerk of the court where
the same is docketed a memorandum of such settlement, whose
duty it shall be to enter such return or memorandum upon the
judgment docket in his office.

If a clerk or a plaintiff shall fail to do anything herein re-
quired of him, he shall pay a fine of not less than thirty nor
more than three hundred dollars to any person aggrieved by
said default. For services herein mentioned the clerk shall
receive a fee of twenty-five cents, to be charged in the costs of
suit.

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