CHAPTER 438

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-373 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to courts in which judgment dockets are to be kept; what judgment
dockets shall contain and how kept.

(S 401]

Approved April 1, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8-373 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 8-373. The clerk of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond,
and of every circuit and corporation court except the Hustings Court of
the city of Richmond and circuit courts of cities, shall keep in his office,
in a well-bound book, a judgment docket, in which he shall docket, with-
out delay, any judgment for money rendered in this State by any State
or Federal court, when he shall be required so to do by any person in-
terested, on such person delivering to him an authenticated abstract of
it; and shall also docket every judgment for money rendered in his court
or office, and every such judgment, the abstract of which is delivered
to him by the clerk of the circuit or other court of his city, and also upon
the request of any person interested therein, any such judgment rendered
by a trial justice whose book has been filed in his office under the pro-
visions of § 16-25, or of which an abstract is delivered to him certified by
the trial justice who rendered it; provided that the clerk of the circuit
court of any county having a population of more than one thousand per
square mile according to the last preceding United States census or of
any county adjoining any such county, or any of them, may keep a card
file in lieu of a book, from which file cards for satisfied or released judg-
ments may be removed and placed in a second file and together the files
shall constitute a judgment docket.