An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Law Body
Chap. 261.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6470 of the Code of Virginia
relating to the time from which a judgment is to be a lien on all real estate
of the defendant and extracts of said judgments. [H B 226]
Approved March 24, 1932
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-four hundred and seventy of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted to read as follows:
Section 6470. Every judgment for money rendered in this State,
by any State or federal court, other than by confession in vacation,
shall be a lien on all the real estate of or to which the defendant in
such judgment is or becomes possessed or entitled, at or after the date
of such judgment, or if it was rendered in court, at or after the com-
mencement of the term at which it was so rendered, if the cause was
in such condition that a judgment might have been rendered on the
first day of the term, but.if from the nature of the case judgment
could not have been rendered at the commencement of the term, such
judgment shall be a lien only on or after the date on which such judg-
ment or decree is rendered and not from the commencement of the
term, but this section shall not prevent the lien of a judgment or decree
from relating back to the first day of the term merely because the case
shall be set for trial or hearing on a later day of the term, if such
case was matured and ready for hearing at the commencement of the
term, nor merely because an office judgment in a case matured and
docketed at the commencement of the term does not become final until
a later day of the term. A judgment by confession in vacation shall
also be a lien upon such real estate, but only from the time of day at
which such judgment is confessed. If more than one judgment is
confessed in vacation by the same defendant, such judgments shall
have priority as among themselves in the order with respect to the
time when they are respectively confessed, unless otherwise directed by
the defendant, which time shall be the time that the first was con-
fessed, and the clerk shall enter such time on the margin of his order
book. Judgments against the same person shall, as among themselves,
attach to his real estate, and be payable thereout in the order of the
priority of such judgments, respectively. Provided, however, that 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 proper clerk’s office of the county or city
wherein such real estate may be. An extract from any judgment shall,
upon motion, be granted to any person interested immediately upon its
rendition, subject to the future action of the court rendering the same.
This section is qualified by section sixty-five hundred and fifty of
this Code. "
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