Chap. 136.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 6477 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to limitations of proceedings to enforce judgment and to
executions. [S 37]

Approved March 6, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section sixty-four hundred seventy-seven of the Code
of Virginia, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 6477. Limitations of proceedings to enforce judgment ;
execution.—On a judgment, execution may be issued and a scire
facias or an action may be brought within twenty years after the
date of the judgment, except that when the scire facias or action
is against a personal representative of a decedent it must be brought
within five years from the date of his qualification.

All of the provisions of this section apply mutatis mutandis to
any judgment obtained upon such scire facias or action as well as
to an original judgment except that there may be only one revival
or extension as to a personal representative. And the rights of a
judgment creditor as to a purchaser for value who records his deed
shall be governed by the provisions of section sixty-four hundred
seventy-four of the Code. The provisions of this section as at this
time amended apply to judgments obtained after the effective date
of this amendment; and to judgments obtained prior to such date
which are not then barred by the statute of limitations, but nothing
herein shall have the effect of reducing the time for enforcement
of any judgment the limitation upon which had been extended prior
to the effective date of this amendment by compliance with the
provisions of law theretofore in effect.