CHAPTER 488

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 58-797 and 58-798, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, relating to duties of certain clerks of court concern-
ing lists of deeds, deeds of trust and mortgages, and lists of judgments
affecting real estate and of lands devised and exceptions thereto.

[H 486]
Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 58-797 and 58-798, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted, as follows:

§ 58-797. The clerk of every court in which deeds are admitted to
record, except such clerks in cities having a population of more than two
hundred and nineteen thousand but not more than three hundred thousand
and in cities having a population of more than seventy thousand but not
more than eighty-six thousand and adjoining a city having a population
of more than two hundred thousand, shall annually, before the fifteenth
of January, make out a list of all deeds for the partition and conveyance
of land, other than deeds of trust and mortgages, made to secure the
payment of debts, which have been admitted to record in the clerk’s office
of such court within the year ending on the thirty-first day of December
next preceding. The list shall state the date of the deed, when admitted
to record, the name of the grantor and grantee, whether the grantee is
white or colored, if known, the quantity of land conveyed, the specified
value thereof and a description of the same. This list shall, on or before
the fifteenth day of January, be delivered by the clerk to the commissioner
for his county or city and the clerk shall also forward a copy of the list
to the Department of Taxation. The clerk shall also make out on a separate
sheet a list of all deeds of trust and mortgages on land, as well as deeds
of trust on personal property, made to secure the payment of debts, which
have been admitted to record in the clerk’s office of such court within
the year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding.
Such list shall state the date of the deed of trust or mortgage, when
admitted to record, the name of the grantor, the names of the creditors,
when the names of such creditors are disclosed and set forth in the deed
of trust or mortgage, and the amount of the debt to each creditor secured
by the deed of trust or to the mortgagee in the mortgage and the total
amount of debt secured thereby and the property conveyed in such deed
of trust or mortgage. Copies of this last mentioned list shall be furnished
by the clerk on or before the fifteenth day of January to the commissioner
of the revenue for his county or city and the Department of Taxation.

The list first hereinabove mentioned shall include all lands acquired
in fee simple by the Commonwealth through condemnation proceedings,
and shall give the names of the persons from whom acquired, the dates
of confirmation of the commissioners’ reports in such proceedings, the
quantity of land acquired in each case, the value thereof as specified
in the reports and a description of each such tract.

The commissioner shall, upon receipt of any such list as hereinbefore
in this section provided for, promptly and carefully check the same against
the records in the office of the clerk who furnished the same and, if he
finds any errors in the list, he shall make proper correction thereof.

§ 58-798. The clerk of every court in which judgments are required
to be docketed, except such clerks in cities having a population of more
than two hundred and nineteen thousand but not more than three hundred
thousand and in cities having a population of more than seventy thousand
but not more than eighty-six thousand and adjoining a city having a
population of more than two hundred thousand, shall make out a list of
all judgments and decrees for the partition or recovery of lands which
have been rendered and of all lands devised by will, which have been
recorded in such court within the year ending on ‘the thirty-first of
December next preceding. The list shall state the date of the decree, the
land which is the subject of the partition and between whom and in
what proportion it is divided or, as the case may be, the date of the will
containing the devise, when admitted to record, the names of the devisor
and devisee and the description of the land devised. The clerk shall deliver
the list to the commissioner for his county or city on or before the fifteenth
day of January in each year.

Upon receipt of any such list as hereinbefore provided for, the com-
missioner shall promptly and carefully check the same against the records
in the office of the clerk who furnished the same and, if he finds any errors
in the list, he shall make proper correction thereof.