CHAPTER 568

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

[H 634]

Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

That § 8-373, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
nacted, as follows:

§ 8-378. The clerk of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond,
of every circuit and corporation court except the Hustings Court of
city of Richmond and circuit courts of cities, shall keep in his office,
. well-bound book, a judgment docket, in which he shall docket, without
ly, any judgment for money rendered in this State by any State or
leral court, when he shall be required so to do by any person interested,
such person delivering to him an authenticated abstract of it; and shall
» docket every judgment for money rendered in his court or office, and
ry such judgment, the abstract of which is delivered to him by the clerk
he circuit or other court of his city, and also upon the request of any
son interested therein, any such judgment rendered by a * county or
ricipal court judge whose book has been filed in his office under the
visions of * Title 16.1, or of which an abstract is delivered to him certi-
by the * county or municipal court judge who rendered it; provided
; the clerk of the circuit court of any county having a population of
‘e than one thousand per square mile according to the last preceding
ted States census or of any county adjoining any such county, or of any
uty having a population of not less than fifty thousand nor more than
y thousand five hundred, or any of them, may keep a card file in lieu
, book, from which file cards for satisfied or released judgments may be
oved and placed in a second file and together the files shall constitute
idgment docket.