Chap. 104.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6466 of the Code of Virginia.
relating to releasing of judgments by judgment creditors. [H B 212]

Approved February 28, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
Section sixty-four hundred and sixty-six of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6466. In all cases where payment or satisfaction of any
judgment so docketed is made which does not appear by the return
of any 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, him-
self, 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
defendant, 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 execu-
tion book in the office of the clerk from which the execution issued.
And for any failure to do so, after ten days notice so to do by the
judgment debtor, his agent or attorney, such judgment creditor shall
be liable to a fine of twenty dollars. Such entry of payment or satis-
faction 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. But the cost of such release shall be paid by
the judgment debtor.