Chap. 48.—An ACT to amend 4th Section, Chapter 182, Code 1873,
with Reference to Judgment Liens. °

Approved February 17, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section four of chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the
Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted’ so as to read as follows:

“§4. The clerk of each county and’ corporation court,
shall keep in his office, in a well-boand book, a judgment
docket, in which he shall docket, without delay, any judg-
ment in this state, when he shall be required to do so by any
person interested, on such person's delivering to him an
authenticated abstract of it; and shall docket every judg-
ment rendered in his court, and every judgment the abstract
of which may be delivered to him by the clerk of the circuit
court of his county or corporation; and the clerk of the cir-
cuit court of each county and corporation in this state shall,
without delay, deliver to the clerks of the county and corpo-
ration courts of his county and corporation, an authenticated
abstract of every judgment rendered in his court or office.
In such docket, there shall be stated, in separate columns,
the date and amount of the judgment, the date of docketin
it, the alternative value of any specific property ronorered
by it, the amount and date of any credits thereon, with the
names, description and residence of the parties, so far as
they appear in his office or in such abstract, and when paid
off or discharged, in whole or in part, the time thereof.
Every judgment shall, 80 soon as it is docketed, be indexed
by the clerk in the name of each defendant therein, and
unless so indexed, it shall not be regarded as docketed; and
the fact of the payment or discharge of said judgment, either
in whole or in part, shall be entered as aforesaid, by the
clerk upon the return of an execution showing such satis-
faction, either in whole or in part, or upon the certificate of
the clerk from whose office such execution issued that the
same has been satisfied, either in whole or in part, or upon
the direction of the judgment creditor or his attorney. And
in all cases where payment or satisfaction shall be made,
which does not appear by the return of an execution to the
office of the clerk where the judgment is docketed, it shall
be the duty of the judgment creditor, either by himself, his
agent or attorney, to cause such payment or satisfaction,
whether in whole or in part, to be entered on the said judg-
ment docket within ninety days after the same is made; and
for any failure so to do, such judgment creditor shall be lia-
ble to a fine of twenty dollars. And for the additional ser- F
vice hereby imposed on the clerk of entering satisfaction on
his judgment docket, he shall be entitled to charge a fee of
twenty cents, to be paid by the jndgment debtor. And if?
the clerk fail to do anything required of him by this section,
he shall pay a fine of not less than thirty, nor more than
three hundred dollars, to any person who will prosecute
therefor: provided, however, that it shall be-the duty of the 8
clerk of the circuit court of the city of Richmond, and of the a
clerk of the hustings court of the city of Richmond without ©
delay, to deliver to the clerk of the chancery court of the ce
city of Richmond, instead of the corporation court of said
city, an authenticated abstract of every judgment rendered:T
in court or office, to be docketed’by the clerk of: the chancery’:
court in the manner provided, in a well-bound book to be
kept by him in his office for the purpose, and to index the
same in the name of each defendant. And it shall also be
the duty of the clerk of the hustings court of the city of
Richmond to deliver to the clerk of the chancery court of
the city of Richmond the judgment docket of his court, to
be Preserved among the records of the said chancery court:
and provided, further, that where any judgment is obtained J
in this state, outside the said city of Richmond, and the judg- }
ment creditor seeks to make the same a lien on lands within &
said city, it shall be docketed within the time prescribed by
law in the chancery court of the city of Richmond, and not
in the said hustings court.”

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