Chap. 381.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6501 of the Code of Virginia,
1919, as heretofore amended, in relation to notice of lien by judgment and to
provide for damages for serving notice when no judgment or lien exists.

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Approved March 22, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion sixty-five hundred and one of the Code of Virginia, nineteen
hundred and nineteen, in relation to notice of lien by judgment be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6501. Lien of fieri facias on estate of debtor not capable
of being levied on.—Every writ of fieri facias shall, in addition to
the lien it has under section sixty-four hundred and eighty-five
on what is capable of being levied on under that section, be a lien.
from the time it is delivered to a sheriff or other officer to be
executed, on all the personal estate of or to which the judgment
debtor is, or may afterwards and on or before the return day of
the said writ become, possessed or entitled, and which, from its
nature is not capable of being levied on under the said section,
except such as is exempt under the provisions of chapter two hun-
dred and seventy-four, and except that as against an assignee of
any such estate for valuable consideration, or a person making a
payment to the judgment debtor, the lien by virtue of this section
shall not affect him, unless given written notice thereof as herein
required at the time of the assignment, or payment, as the case may
be: provided that no notice given in pursuance of the provisions of
this section, shall be binding upon such assignee or person making
payment except and unless the same set forth the name of the per-
son against whom obtained, by whom obtained, the amount and
costs of the judgment, the date recovered, and the date of the issu-
ance or renewal of execution thereon, the return day of the execu-
tion, and the date of placing execution in hands of officer. ©

Whoever serves a notice of lien of a writ of fleri facias without
here being a judgment against the defendant named therein, shall
vay to him the sum of fifty dollars, and whoever serves a notice
ft lien of a writ of fieri facias before the issuance of a writ of fier
acias, or after the return day thereof, shall pay to the named de-
endant the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recoverable as dam-
ges in an action at law, in addition to whatever damages may be
lleged and proven. But nothing herein contained shall be con-
trued as imposing liability upon any person serving a notice under
his act if a judgment has been obtained and the lien notice is served
‘uring the life of an execution.

3. That all acts or parts of acts in so far as the same conflict
erewith, as well as any provision in any city charter to the con-
rary, be and the same are hereby repealed.

4. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
assage.