Chap. 431.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3567, 3570, and 3576, and to
repeal section 3568 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the lien of a judg-
ment.

Approved March 29, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
thirty-five hundred and sixty-seven, thirty-five hundred and seventy, and
thirty-five hundred and seventy-six of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3567. Judgment to be a lien on all real estate of debtor; from what
time.—Every judgment for money rendered in this State heretofore or
hereafter against any person shall be a lien on all the real estate of or
to which such person is or becomes possessed or entitled at or after the
date of such judgment. When more than one judgment or decree is con-
fessed or entered in vacation on the same day, they shall have priority as
among themselves in the order with respect to the time when they are
respectively confessed or received for record in the clerk’s office of the
court entering the same: provided, that when several judgments are con-
fessed together they shall all be deemed to have been confessed as of the
time the first was confessed, and the clerk shall enter such time on the
margin of his order book. The lien of a judgment shall in no case relate
back to a day or other time prior to that on or at which the judgment
was rendered. This section is qualified by section thirty-six hundred
and forty-nine and the three following sections.

§ 3570. Judgment not a lien again$t purchaser for valuable consider-
ation without notice, unless docketed.—No judgment shall be a lien
on real estate as against a purchaser thereof for valuable consideration
without notice until and except from the time that it is duly docketed in
the clerk’s office of the county or corporation wherein such real estate
may be.

§ 3576. How liens of judgments attach to real estate and are pay-
able.—The liens of judgments against the same person shall attach to all
his real estate liable thereto under section thirty-five hundred and sixty-
seven in the order of the dates respectively of said judgments, and the
judgments shall be made payable thereout in the same order; and where
there are rendered at the same term of court two or more judgments
against the same person in suits or in proceedings by motion, both or all
of which were matured, at the rules or otherwise, and were upon the
docket at the commencement of the term, there shall be no priority be-
tween or among them, but said judgments shall be paid ratably out of
the real estate upon which they are liens. Such judgments shall take
priority over judgments by confession entered at the same term, and
over judgments rendered at the same term in any proceeding by motion
instituted during the term. An extract of any judgment shall, upon
motion, be granted to any party interested immediately upon its rendi-
tion, subject to the future action of the court rendering the same.

2. Be it further enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-five hundred and sixty-eight of the Code of Virginia be,
and the same is hereby, repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage, but shall not affect in
any manner liens existing at the date of its passage.