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Home » US Law » 2022 Code of Virginia » Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure » Chapter 17 - Judgments and Decrees Generally » Article 5. Keeping of Docket Books; Execution Thereon; Disposal of Exhibits

§ 8.01-446. Clerks to keep judgment dockets; what judgments to be docketed therein

The clerk of each court of every circuit shall keep in his office, in a well-bound book, or by microphotographic or electronic process allowed by § 17.1-240, a judgment docket, in which he shall docket, without delay, any judgment for a specific amount of money rendered in his court, and shall likewise docket without delay […]

§ 8.01-447. Docketing of judgments and decrees of United States courts

Judgments and decrees rendered in the circuit court of appeals or a district court of the United States within this Commonwealth may be docketed and indexed in the clerks’ offices of courts of this Commonwealth in the same manner and under the same rules and requirements of law as judgments and decrees of courts in […]

§ 8.01-449. How judgments are docketed

A. The judgment docket required by § 8.01-446 may be kept in a well-bound book, or any other media permitted by § 17.1-240. The date and time of docketing shall be recorded with each judgment docketed. The clerk of the circuit court of any county using card files on July 1, 1975, may continue to […]

§ 8.01-450. How indexed

Every judgment shall, as soon as it is docketed, be indexed by the clerk in the name of each defendant, as required by § 17.1-249, and shall not be regarded as docketed as to any defendant in whose name it is not so indexed. The clerk may maintain such index on computer, word processor, microfilm, […]

§ 8.01-452. Entry of assignment of judgment on judgment lien docket

Whenever there shall be an assignment of a judgment, such assignment must be in writing, showing the date thereof, the name of the assignor and assignee, the amount of the judgment, and when and by what court granted, and either acknowledged as are deeds for recordation in the clerks’ offices of circuit courts in the […]

§ 8.01-452.1. Disposal of exhibits in civil cases

A clerk of court, after sixty days have elapsed from the entry of judgment in a civil case or, if the civil case is appealed or notice of appeal is pending or the case is being reheard, when the appeal or rehearing is concluded, may dispose of or donate any exhibits filed in the case […]