Chap. 412.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3584 of the Code of

Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1910, in relation

to the execution of writs of possession and unlawful detainer damages

and costs. (H. B. 339.)
Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three thousand five hundred and eighty-four of the Code
of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and ten, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 3584. When writ of possession may issue; how
executed; fieri facias for damages or profits and costs; how
writ in unlawful detainer executed, and when returnable.—On
a judgment for the recovery of specific property, real or per-
sonal, a writ of possession may issue for the specific property,
which shall conform to the judgment as to the description of
the property and the estate, title and interest recovered, and
there may also be issued a writ of fieri facias for the damages
or profits and costs. In cases of unlawful entry and detainer
and of ejectment, whenever the officer to whom a writ of pos-
session has been delivered to be executed finds the premises
locked, he may, after declaring at the door the cause of his com-
ing and demanding to have the door opened, employ reasonable
and necessary force to break and enter the door and put the
plaintiff in possession. And an officer having a writ of

sion for specific personal property, if he find locked or fas-
tened the building or place wherein he has reasonable cause to
believe the property specified in the writ is located, may in tha
day time, after notice to the defendant, his agent or bailee,
break and enter such building or place for the purpose of exe-
cuting such writ.

Writs of possession, in case of unlawful entry and detainer,
where the premises are located in cities or towns or in suburban
or other lands which are subdivided into building lots for resi-
dential purposes, shall be made returnable within thirty days
from the date of issuing the writ.