Chap. 239.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6469 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to lis pendens and attachment. [S B 100]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-four hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6469. No lis pendens, or attachment shall bind or affect
a subsequent bona fide purchaser of real or personal estate for valuable
consideration and without actual notice of such lis pendens or attach-
ment, until and except from the time a memorandum setting forth
the title of the cause or attachment, the general object thereof, the court
wherein it is pending, the amount of the claim asserted by the plaintiff,
a description of the property, and the name of the person whose estate
is intended to be affected thereby, shall be admitted to record in the
clerk’s office of the circuit court of the county or the corporation court
of the city wherein the property is, or if it be in the city of Rich-
mond, in the clerk’s office of the chancery court of such city. The
memorandum required by this section shall be authenticated by the
clerk of the court in which such suit, action or attachment is pending.
Such memorandum shall not be deemed to have been recorded unless
and until indexed as required by law. If such attachment be quashed
or dismissed or such cause be dismissed, or judgment or final decree
in such attachment or cause be for the defendant or defendants, the
court shall direct in its order that the said attachment or lis pendens
be released ; whereupon it shall become the duty of the clerk in whose
office such attachment or lis pendens is recorded, to enter on the margin
of the page of the book where the same is recorded, such fact, together
with a reference to the order book and page where such order is
recorded; provided, however, that in any case in which an appeal or
writ of error from the said judgment or decree or dismissal would
lie, the court shall not enter such order, nor the clerk make such entry
until the expiration of the time in which such appeal or writ of error
may be applied for, or if applied for until refused, or if granted, until
final judgment or decree is entered by the appellate court.

In any case in which the debt for which such attachment is issued,
or suit is brought and notice of lis pendens recorded is satisfied by
payment, it shall be the duty of the creditor within ten days after
payment of same, to mark such notice of lis pendens or attachment
satisfied on the margin of the deed book where recorded.

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