Chap. 498.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3559; section 3560, as amended
by an act of the general assembly approved February 24, 1898; sections 3562
and 3563, chapter 174, of the Code of Virginia.

Approved December 31, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-five hundred and fifty-nine; section thirty-five hundred and sixty,
as amended by an act of the general assembly approved February twenty-
fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; sections thirty-five hundred
and sixty-two, and thirty-five hundred and sixty-three, of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 3559. Clerks of circuit, corporation, or hustings courts and clerk of
chancery court of Richmond to keep judgment dockets; what judgments
to docket therein; clerks of circuit courts in cities to deliver abstracts of
judgments rendered in their courts or offices; abstracts of judgments
against fiduciaries, receivers, et cetera, not to be docketed unless re-
quired.—The clerk of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, and
of every circuit and corporation or hustings court except the hustings
court of the city of Richmond, and except circuit courts of cities, shall
keep in his office, in a well-bound book, a judgment docket, in which he
shall docket, without delay, any judgment for money rendered in this
State by any State or federal court, when he shall be required so to
do by any person interested, on such person delivering to him an authen-
ticated abstract of it; and shall docket every judgment for money
rendered in his court or office, and every such judgment, the abstract of
which is delivered to him by the clerk of the circuit or other court of his
ccerporation, and also upon the request of any person interested therein,
any such judgment rendered by a justice whose book has been filed in
his office under the provisions of section twenty-nine hundred and forty-
four, or of which an abstract is delivered to him certified by the justice
who rendered it. The clerk of the circuit or other court of each corpora-
tion, except the clerk of the circuit or of a city court of the city of Rich-
mond, shall, without delay, deliver to the clerk of the corporation or hus-
tings court of his corporation, and the clerk of the circuit or of a city
court of the city of Richmond to the clerk of the chancery court of said
city, an authenticated abstract of every judgment for moncy rendered in
his court or office, except that judgments, decrees, or orders against fidu-
ciaries for which they are not personally liable, and against commission-
ers and receivers of any court, and against any bank or incorporated com-
pany doing a banking business for money deposited under or subject to
the order of any court, or by a commissioner or receiver thereof, shall not
be docketed, nor abstracts thereof delivered by the clerks of the circuit
courts to the clerks of the corporation or hustings court, or by the clerks
of the circuit or city courts of Richmond to the clerk of the chancery
court of the said city, unless required by the plaintiff in such judgment,
decree, or order, or some person interested therein, to be so certified and
docketed, and then only at the cost of such plaintiff or person so inter-
ested.

§ 3560. How judgments are docketed.—In such docket there shall be
stated, in separate columns, the date and amount of the judgment; the
names of all the parties thereto ; the alternative value of any specific prop-
erty recovered by it; the date of docketing it; the amount and date of any
credits thereon; the court in which, or the justice by whom it was ren-
dered; and when paid off or discharged, in whole or in part, the time
thereof, and by whom such payment or discharge was made, where there
is more than one defendant. And in case of a judgment or decree by
confession or in vacation the clerk shall also enter in such docket the
time of day at which the same was confessed, or at which the same was
received in his office to be entered of record. And it shall be the duty of
the clerk of any circuit or city court for a corporation in which a judg-
ment is confessed or entered in vacation, to certify to the clerk of the
hustings or corporation court thereof the time of day of such confes-
sion or the time at which the vacation decree was received in his office to
be entered, except that in the city of Richmond he shall certify the same
to the clerk of the chancery court of said city.

§ 3562. When and how payment thereof entered on judgment docket;
clerks of circuit courts to certify satisfaction of judgments—The fact
of the payment or discharge, either in whole or in part, of any judgment
so docketed, and if there be more than one defendant, by which defend-
ant it was paid or discharged, shall be entered, as aforesaid, by the clerk
upon the return of any execution showing such satisfaction or upon the
certificate of the clerk from whose office such execution was issued, that
the same has been satisfied in whole or in part, or upon the direction of
the judgment. creditor or his attorney, and the clerk of the circuit or
other court of each corporation, except the clerks of the circuit or city
courts of the city of Richmond, whenever it appears from the return of
an execution issued thereon that any judgment rendered in his court or
office has been satisfied, in whole or in part, shall, without delay, certify
the fact of such satisfaction, and if there be more than one defendant, by
which defendant it was satisfied, to the clerk of the corporation or hus-
tings court of his corporation, and the clerks of the circuit or city courts
ef the city of Richmond to the clerk of the chancery court of the said city.

§ 3563. Judgment, when paid, to be so noted by creditor on judgment
docket, et cetera; how noted, signed, and attested.—In all cases where
payment or satisfaction of any judgment so docketed is made which does
not appear by the return of an execution to the office of the clerk where
the judgment is docketed or which is not required to be certified to him
under the preceding section, it shall be the duty of the judgment creditor,
himself, or by his agent or attorney, to cause such payment, or satisfac-
tion, whether in whole or in part, and if there be more than one defend-
ant, by which defendant it was paid or discharged, to be entered within
ninety days after the same is made, on said judgment docket; or, if the
judgment has not been docketed, then on the execution book in the office
of the clerk from which the execution issued. And for any failure to do
80, after the same is made, such judgment creditor shall be liable to a fine
of twenty dollars. Such entry of payment or satisfaction shall be signed
by the creditor, his duly authorized agent or attorney, and be attested by
the clerk in whose office the judgment is docketed, or, when not docketed,
by the clerk from whose office the execution issued.

2. This act shall be in force on and after February first, nineteen hun-
dred and four.