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The clerk shall enter daily, either in such general indexes or in the daily index to instruments admitted to record, every deed, corrected or amended deed, deed of release, deed of trust, contract of sale, or any addendum, modification, or memorandum relating to any of these instruments, indexing each instrument in the names of all parties identified in the instrument as grantor, grantee, or both, as required by § 17.1-223, or identified in the cover sheet as grantor, grantee, or both, pursuant to § 17.1-227.1, as applicable.B\n\nA deed of trust made to one or more trustees to secure the payment of an indebtedness, and any certificate of satisfaction or certificate of partial satisfaction, assignment, loan modification agreement, substitution of trustees or similar instrument subsequently recorded with respect to such deed, shall be sufficiently indexed if the clerk enters in the appropriate places in the general index to deeds provided for in subsection A the names of the grantor and the name of the beneficiary or, in lieu of the name of the beneficiary, the first listed trustee as grantee. The beneficiary need not be named in the first clause of the deed as a condition of recordation.C\n\nA deed made by a person in a representative capacity, or by devisees or coparceners, shall be indexed in the names of the grantors and grantees and the name of the former record title owner listed in the first clause of the instrument.D\n\nThe general indexes of civil causes shall be sufficiently kept if the clerk indexes such causes under the short style or title thereof, except that in multiple suits brought under § 58.1-3968, the names of all of the defendants disclosed by the pleadings shall be entered in the general index or book.E\n\nEvery deed of conveyance of real estate in which a vendor’s lien is reserved shall be indexed twice so as to show not only the conveyance from the grantor to the grantee in the instrument, but also the reservation of the lien as if it were a grant of such lien from the grantee to the grantor by a separate instrument and the fact of the lien shall be noted in the index.F\n\nAt the time of qualification of an executor, every will shall be indexed in the name of the decedent and such executor.G\n\nAll deed books, miscellaneous liens, will books, judgment dockets, and court order books shall be numbered or otherwise adequately designated and the clerk upon the delivery of any writing to him for record required by law to be recorded shall duly index it upon the general index in the manner hereinbefore required. When the writing has been actually transcribed on the book, the clerk shall add to the general index the number of the book in which, and the page on which, the writing is recorded.H\n\nThe clerk on receipt of any such writing for record may immediately index it in a book to be known as the “daily index of instruments admitted to record” and within 90 days after its admission to record the clerk shall index all such writings indexed in the daily index in the appropriate general index as hereinbefore provided. The daily index book shall, at all times, be kept in the office of the clerk and conveniently available for examination by the public. During the period permitted for transfer from the daily index to the general index, indexing in the daily index shall be a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this section as to indexing.I\n\nThe judge of any circuit court may make such orders as he deems advisable as to the time and method of indexing the order books in the clerk’s office of the court and may dispense with a general index for order books of the court.J\n\nThe clerk may maintain his indexes on computer, word processor, microfilm, microfiche, or other micrographic medium and, in addition, may maintain his grantor and grantee indexes on paper.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":233383,"text":"There shall be kept in every clerk’s office modern, family name or ledgerized alphabetical key-table general indexes to all deed books, miscellaneous liens, will books, judgment dockets and court order books. The clerk shall enter daily, either in such general indexes or in the daily index to instruments admitted to record, every deed, corrected or amended deed, deed of release, deed of trust, contract of sale, or any addendum, modification, or memorandum relating to any of these instruments, indexing each instrument in the names of all parties identified in the instrument as grantor, grantee, or both, as required by § 17.1-223, or identified in the cover sheet as grantor, grantee, or both, pursuant to § 17.1-227.1, as applicable.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":233384,"text":"A deed of trust made to one or more trustees to secure the payment of an indebtedness, and any certificate of satisfaction or certificate of partial satisfaction, assignment, loan modification agreement, substitution of trustees or similar instrument subsequently recorded with respect to such deed, shall be sufficiently indexed if the clerk enters in the appropriate places in the general index to deeds provided for in subsection A the names of the grantor and the name of the beneficiary or, in lieu of the name of the beneficiary, the first listed trustee as grantee. 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When the writing has been actually transcribed on the book, the clerk shall add to the general index the number of the book in which, and the page on which, the writing is recorded.","type":"section","prefixes":["G"],"prefix":"G","entire_prefix":"G","prefix_anchor":"G","level":1,"prior_prefix":"F","next_prefix":"H"},"7":{"id":233390,"text":"The clerk on receipt of any such writing for record may immediately index it in a book to be known as the “daily index of instruments admitted to record” and within 90 days after its admission to record the clerk shall index all such writings indexed in the daily index in the appropriate general index as hereinbefore provided. The daily index book shall, at all times, be kept in the office of the clerk and conveniently available for examination by the public. During the period permitted for transfer from the daily index to the general index, indexing in the daily index shall be a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this section as to indexing.","type":"section","prefixes":["H"],"prefix":"H","entire_prefix":"H","prefix_anchor":"H","level":1,"prior_prefix":"G","next_prefix":"I"},"8":{"id":233391,"text":"The judge of any circuit court may make such orders as he deems advisable as to the time and method of indexing the order books in the clerk’s office of the court and may dispense with a general index for order books of the court.","type":"section","prefixes":["I"],"prefix":"I","entire_prefix":"I","prefix_anchor":"I","level":1,"prior_prefix":"H","next_prefix":"J"},"9":{"id":233392,"text":"The clerk may maintain his indexes on computer, word processor, microfilm, microfiche, or other micrographic medium and, in addition, may maintain his grantor and grantee indexes on paper.","type":"section","prefixes":["J"],"prefix":"J","entire_prefix":"J","prefix_anchor":"J","level":1,"prior_prefix":"I"}},"ancestry":[{"id":13894,"edition_id":1,"name":"Records, Recordation and Indexing Generally","identifier":"3","label":"article","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13472,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:46:13","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:46:13","permalink":{"id":163071,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13894,"identifier":"3","token":"17.1\/2\/3","url":"\/17.1\/2\/3\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13472,"edition_id":1,"name":"Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records","identifier":"2","label":"chapter","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12766,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:58","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:58","permalink":{"id":162961,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13472,"identifier":"2","token":"17.1\/2","url":"\/17.1\/2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12766,"edition_id":1,"name":"Courts of Record","identifier":"17.1","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:52","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:52","permalink":{"id":162799,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12766,"identifier":"17.1","token":"17.1","url":"\/17.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":78488,"structure_id":13894,"section_number":"17.1-223","catch_line":"Duty of clerk to record writings, etc., and make index","url":"\/17.1-223\/","token":"17.1\/2\/3\/17.1-223","metadata":false},{"id":75760,"structure_id":13894,"section_number":"17.1-224","catch_line":"Copy of illegible instrument used for making permanent record","url":"\/17.1-224\/","token":"17.1\/2\/3\/17.1-224","metadata":false},{"id":69099,"structure_id":13894,"section_number":"17.1-225","catch_line":"Remote access to nonconfidential court records","url":"\/17.1-225\/","token":"17.1\/2\/3\/17.1-225","metadata":false},{"id":59592,"structure_id":13894,"section_number":"17.1-226","catch_line":"Remote access to certain agencies from clerk of court","url":"\/17.1-226\/","token":"17.1\/2\/3\/17.1-226","metadata":false},{"id":54933,"structure_id":13894,"section_number":"17.1-227","catch_line":"Documents to be recorded in deed books; 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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 12 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1952, chapter 34; in 1960, chapter 146; in 1974, chapter 515; in 1983, chapter 293; in 1990, chapter 374; in 1991, chapters 203 and 204; in 1998, chapter 872<\/a>; in 2002, chapters 276<\/a> and 832<\/a>; in 2005, chapter 681<\/a>; in 2008, chapters 823<\/a> and 833<\/a>; in 2014, chapter 338<\/a>; in 2020, chapter 1063<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":78488,"section_number":"17.1-223","catch_line":"Duty of clerk to record writings, etc., and make index","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-223\/"},{"id":54933,"section_number":"17.1-227","catch_line":"Documents to be recorded in deed books; social security numbers","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-227\/"},{"id":72247,"section_number":"17.1-251","catch_line":"Indexing of certain subdivision plats or maps","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-251\/"},{"id":59643,"section_number":"64.2-1214","catch_line":"Recordation of report","order_by":null,"url":"\/64.2-1214\/"},{"id":70233,"section_number":"8.01-450","catch_line":"How indexed","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.01-450\/"},{"id":76349,"section_number":"8.01-451","catch_line":"Judgments to be docketed and indexed in new names of judgment debtors; how execution may thereafter issue","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.01-451\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":78488,"section_number":"17.1-223","catch_line":"Duty of clerk to record writings, etc., and make index","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-223\/"},{"id":72471,"section_number":"17.1-227.1","catch_line":"Use of cover sheets on deeds or other instruments by circuit court clerks","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-227.1\/"},{"id":72566,"section_number":"58.1-3968","catch_line":"When two or more parcels may be covered by one complaint","order_by":null,"url":"\/58.1-3968\/"}],"permalink":{"id":163181,"object_type":"law","relational_id":64098,"identifier":"17.1-249","token":"17.1\/2\/3\/17.1-249","url":"\/17.1-249\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/17.1-249\/","token":"17.1\/2\/3\/17.1-249","dublin_core":{"Title":"General indexes for clerks’ offices; daily index","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 17.1-249","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> There shall be kept in every clerk’s office modern, family name or ledgerized alphabetical key-table general indexes to all deed books, miscellaneous liens<\/span>, will books, judgment<\/span> dockets<\/span> and court order<\/span> books. The clerk shall enter daily, either in such general indexes or in the daily index to instruments admitted to record, every deed, corrected or amended deed, deed of release, deed of trust, contract<\/span> of sale, or any addendum<\/span>, modification, or memorandum<\/span> relating to any of these instruments, indexing each instrument in the names of all parties identified in the instrument as grantor, grantee, or both, as required by § 17.1-223<\/a>, or identified in the cover sheet as grantor, grantee, or both, pursuant to § 17.1-227.1<\/a>, as applicable. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> A deed of trust made to one or more trustees to secure the payment of an indebtedness, and any certificate of satisfaction or certificate of partial satisfaction, assignment, loan modification agreement, substitution of trustees or similar instrument subsequently recorded with respect to such deed, shall be sufficiently indexed if the clerk enters in the appropriate places in the general index to deeds provided for in subsection A the names of the grantor and the name of the beneficiary or, in lieu of the name of the beneficiary, the first listed trustee as grantee. The beneficiary need not be named in the first clause of the deed as a condition of recordation. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> A deed made by a person in a representative capacity, or by devisees or coparceners, shall be indexed in the names of the grantors and grantees and the name of the former record title owner listed in the first clause of the instrument. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

D.<\/span> The general indexes of civil causes shall be sufficiently kept if the clerk indexes such causes under the short style or title thereof, except that in multiple suits brought under § 58.1-3968<\/a>, the names of all of the defendants<\/span> disclosed by the pleadings<\/span> shall be entered in the general index or book. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

E.<\/span> Every deed of conveyance of real estate in which a vendor’s lien<\/span> is reserved shall be indexed twice so as to show not only the conveyance from the grantor to the grantee in the instrument, but also the reservation of the lien<\/span> as if it were a grant of such lien<\/span> from the grantee to the grantor by a separate instrument and the fact<\/span> of the lien<\/span> shall be noted in the index. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

F.<\/span> At the time of qualification of an executor, every will shall be indexed in the name of the decedent and such executor. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

G.<\/span> All deed books, miscellaneous liens<\/span>, will books, judgment<\/span> dockets<\/span>, and court order<\/span> books shall be numbered or otherwise adequately designated and the clerk upon the delivery of any writing to him for record required by law<\/span> to be recorded shall duly index it upon the general index in the manner hereinbefore required. When the writing has been actually transcribed on the book, the clerk shall add to the general index the number of the book in which, and the page on which, the writing is recorded. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

H.<\/span> The clerk on receipt of any such writing for record may immediately index it in a book to be known as the “daily index of instruments admitted to record” and within 90 days after its admission to record the clerk shall index all such writings indexed in the daily index in the appropriate general index as hereinbefore provided. The daily index book shall, at all times, be kept in the office of the clerk and conveniently available for examination by the public. During the period permitted for transfer from the daily index to the general index, indexing in the daily index shall be a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this section as to indexing. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

I.<\/span> The judge<\/span> of any circuit<\/span> court may make such orders<\/span> as he deems advisable as to the time and method of indexing the order books in the clerk’s office of the court and may dispense with a general index for order books of the court. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

J.<\/span> The clerk may maintain his indexes on computer, word processor, microfilm, microfiche, or other micrographic medium and, in addition, may maintain his grantor and grantee indexes on paper. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nGENERAL INDEXES FOR CLERKS’ OFFICES; DAILY INDEX (\u00a7 17.1-249)\n\nA. There shall be kept in every clerk’s office modern, family name or\nledgerized alphabetical key-table general indexes to all deed books,\nmiscellaneous liens, will books, judgment dockets and court order books. The\nclerk shall enter daily, either in such general indexes or in the daily index to\ninstruments admitted to record, every deed, corrected or amended deed, deed of\nrelease, deed of trust, contract of sale, or any addendum, modification, or\nmemorandum relating to any of these instruments, indexing each instrument in the\nnames of all parties identified in the instrument as grantor, grantee, or both,\nas required by § 17.1-223, or identified in the cover sheet as grantor,\ngrantee, or both, pursuant to § 17.1-227.1, as applicable.\n\nB. A deed of trust made to one or more trustees to secure the payment of an\nindebtedness, and any certificate of satisfaction or certificate of partial\nsatisfaction, assignment, loan modification agreement, substitution of trustees\nor similar instrument subsequently recorded with respect to such deed, shall be\nsufficiently indexed if the clerk enters in the appropriate places in the\ngeneral index to deeds provided for in subsection A the names of the grantor and\nthe name of the beneficiary or, in lieu of the name of the beneficiary, the\nfirst listed trustee as grantee. The beneficiary need not be named in the first\nclause of the deed as a condition of recordation.\n\nC. A deed made by a person in a representative capacity, or by devisees or\ncoparceners, shall be indexed in the names of the grantors and grantees and the\nname of the former record title owner listed in the first clause of the\ninstrument.\n\nD. The general indexes of civil causes shall be sufficiently kept if the clerk\nindexes such causes under the short style or title thereof, except that in\nmultiple suits brought under § 58.1-3968, the names of all of the\ndefendants disclosed by the pleadings shall be entered in the general index or\nbook.\n\nE. Every deed of conveyance of real estate in which a vendor’s lien is\nreserved shall be indexed twice so as to show not only the conveyance from the\ngrantor to the grantee in the instrument, but also the reservation of the lien\nas if it were a grant of such lien from the grantee to the grantor by a separate\ninstrument and the fact of the lien shall be noted in the index.\n\nF. At the time of qualification of an executor, every will shall be indexed in\nthe name of the decedent and such executor.\n\nG. All deed books, miscellaneous liens, will books, judgment dockets, and court\norder books shall be numbered or otherwise adequately designated and the clerk\nupon the delivery of any writing to him for record required by law to be\nrecorded shall duly index it upon the general index in the manner hereinbefore\nrequired. When the writing has been actually transcribed on the book, the clerk\nshall add to the general index the number of the book in which, and the page on\nwhich, the writing is recorded.\n\nH. The clerk on receipt of any such writing for record may immediately index it\nin a book to be known as the “daily index of instruments admitted to\nrecord” and within 90 days after its admission to record the clerk shall\nindex all such writings indexed in the daily index in the appropriate general\nindex as hereinbefore provided. The daily index book shall, at all times, be\nkept in the office of the clerk and conveniently available for examination by\nthe public. During the period permitted for transfer from the daily index to the\ngeneral index, indexing in the daily index shall be a sufficient compliance with\nthe requirements of this section as to indexing.\n\nI. The judge of any circuit court may make such orders as he deems advisable as\nto the time and method of indexing the order books in the clerk’s office\nof the court and may dispense with a general index for order books of the court.\n\nJ. The clerk may maintain his indexes on computer, word processor, microfilm,\nmicrofiche, or other micrographic medium and, in addition, may maintain his\ngrantor and grantee indexes on paper.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1919, \u00a7 3394, \u00a7 17-79; 1920, p. 105; 1926, p. 125; 1936, p. 82;\n1944, p. 355; 1952, c. 34; 1960, c. 146; 1974, c. 515; 1983, c. 293; 1990, c.\n374; 1991, cc. 203, 204; 1998, c. 872; 2002, cc. 276, 832; 2005, c. 681; 2008,\ncc. 823, 833; 2014, c. 338; 2020, c. 1063.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}