{"formats":[{"name":"JSON","format":"json","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-json\/49-18.json"},{"name":"Plain Text","format":"text","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-text\/49-18.txt"},{"name":"XML","format":"xml","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-xml\/49-18.xml"},{"name":"HTML","format":"html","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-html\/49-18.html"}],"law_id":71350,"edition_id":1,"section_id":71350,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-18","catch_line":"Agent or attorney of surety company signing without seal","history":"Code 1919, \u00a7 285.","full_text":"If any company organized and incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth, or of any other state in the United States, or of any foreign country, for the purpose of transacting business as surety on obligations for persons, after having complied with the requirements of law regulating the admission of such companies in this Commonwealth, shall give any power of attorney, general or special, under its regular corporate seal, to any agent or attorney in fact to sign its corporate name as surety to any obligation, official or otherwise, required by the laws of this Commonwealth, or by any judge, court or other public officer, organization or board, and such power of attorney shall state that such signing by such agent or attorney in fact without the seal of such corporation shall have the same force and effect as if the corporate seal of such corporation was affixed to such obligations, then any and all such obligations, so signed by such agent or attorney in fact without the seal of such corporation, whether the agent or attorney in fact has used a scroll by way of seal or not, or whether the word “seal” is used in the body of the instrument or not, shall, for all purposes, have the same force and effect, and be as binding in all respects upon such corporation, as if the seal of such corporation had been duly and regularly affixed thereto.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":257232,"text":"If any company organized and incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth, or of any other state in the United States, or of any foreign country, for the purpose of transacting business as surety on obligations for persons, after having complied with the requirements of law regulating the admission of such companies in this Commonwealth, shall give any power of attorney, general or special, under its regular corporate seal, to any agent or attorney in fact to sign its corporate name as surety to any obligation, official or otherwise, required by the laws of this Commonwealth, or by any judge, court or other public officer, organization or board, and such power of attorney shall state that such signing by such agent or attorney in fact without the seal of such corporation shall have the same force and effect as if the corporate seal of such corporation was affixed to such obligations, then any and all such obligations, so signed by such agent or attorney in fact without the seal of such corporation, whether the agent or attorney in fact has used a scroll by way of seal or not, or whether the word “seal” is used in the body of the instrument or not, shall, for all purposes, have the same force and effect, and be as binding in all respects upon such corporation, as if the seal of such corporation had been duly and regularly affixed thereto.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":14414,"edition_id":1,"name":"Bonds Taken by Courts and Officers","identifier":"2","label":"chapter","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13404,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:48:03","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:48:03","permalink":{"id":233219,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":14414,"identifier":"2","token":"49\/2","url":"\/49\/2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13404,"edition_id":1,"name":"Oaths, Affirmations and Bonds","identifier":"49","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:50","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:50","permalink":{"id":233171,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13404,"identifier":"49","token":"49","url":"\/49\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":79654,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-12","catch_line":"Provisions and conditions; acknowledgment and recordation; duty of clerk when taken in pending cause","url":"\/49-12\/","token":"49\/2\/49-12","metadata":false},{"id":64241,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-13","catch_line":"How new or additional bonds required and given; failure to give","url":"\/49-13\/","token":"49\/2\/49-13","metadata":false},{"id":65838,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-14","catch_line":"Effect of giving new or additional bond","url":"\/49-14\/","token":"49\/2\/49-14","metadata":false},{"id":57311,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-15","catch_line":"Surety companies may be accepted as sureties on bonds; rights and liabilities","url":"\/49-15\/","token":"49\/2\/49-15","metadata":false},{"id":76545,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-16","catch_line":"Allowance of expense of procuring corporate surety","url":"\/49-16\/","token":"49\/2\/49-16","metadata":false},{"id":78727,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-17","catch_line":"Surety company estopped to deny power to execute instrument or assume liability","url":"\/49-17\/","token":"49\/2\/49-17","metadata":false},{"id":71350,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-18","catch_line":"Agent or attorney of surety company signing without seal","url":"\/49-18\/","token":"49\/2\/49-18","metadata":false},{"id":60142,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-18.1","catch_line":"Seal not required","url":"\/49-18.1\/","token":"49\/2\/49-18.1","metadata":false},{"id":81781,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-19","catch_line":"Remedy on bonds","url":"\/49-19\/","token":"49\/2\/49-19","metadata":false},{"id":55758,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-20","catch_line":"How bonds given in civil suits made payable","url":"\/49-20\/","token":"49\/2\/49-20","metadata":false},{"id":58248,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-21","catch_line":"Failure to give bond","url":"\/49-21\/","token":"49\/2\/49-21","metadata":false}],"previous_section":{"id":78727,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-17","catch_line":"Surety company estopped to deny power to execute instrument or assume liability","url":"\/49-17\/","token":"49\/2\/49-17","metadata":false},"next_section":{"id":60142,"structure_id":14414,"section_number":"49-18.1","catch_line":"Seal not required","url":"\/49-18.1\/","token":"49\/2\/49-18.1","metadata":false},"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/49-18\/","history_text":false,"references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":233245,"object_type":"law","relational_id":71350,"identifier":"49-18","token":"49\/2\/49-18","url":"\/49-18\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/49-18\/","token":"49\/2\/49-18","dublin_core":{"Title":"Agent or attorney of surety company signing without seal","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 49-18","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

If any company organized and incorporated under the laws<\/span> of this Commonwealth, or of any other state in the United States, or of any foreign country, for the purpose of transacting business as surety<\/span> on obligations for persons, after having complied with the requirements of law<\/span> regulating the admission of such companies in this Commonwealth, shall give any power of attorney<\/span>, general or special, under its regular corporate seal, to any agent or attorney in fact<\/span> to sign its corporate name as surety<\/span> to any obligation, official or otherwise, required by the laws<\/span> of this Commonwealth, or by any judge<\/span>, court<\/span> or other public officer, organization or board, and such power of attorney<\/span> shall state that such signing by such agent or attorney in fact<\/span> without the seal of such corporation shall have the same force and effect as if the corporate seal of such corporation was affixed to such obligations, then any and all such obligations, so signed by such agent or attorney in fact<\/span> without the seal of such corporation, whether the agent or attorney in fact<\/span> has used a scroll by way of seal or not, or whether the word “seal” is used in the body of the instrument or not, shall, for all purposes, have the same force and effect, and be as binding in all respects upon such corporation, as if the seal of such corporation had been duly and regularly affixed thereto.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAGENT OR ATTORNEY OF SURETY COMPANY SIGNING WITHOUT SEAL (\u00a7 49-18)\n\nIf any company organized and incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth,\nor of any other state in the United States, or of any foreign country, for the\npurpose of transacting business as surety on obligations for persons, after\nhaving complied with the requirements of law regulating the admission of such\ncompanies in this Commonwealth, shall give any power of attorney, general or\nspecial, under its regular corporate seal, to any agent or attorney in fact to\nsign its corporate name as surety to any obligation, official or otherwise,\nrequired by the laws of this Commonwealth, or by any judge, court or other\npublic officer, organization or board, and such power of attorney shall state\nthat such signing by such agent or attorney in fact without the seal of such\ncorporation shall have the same force and effect as if the corporate seal of\nsuch corporation was affixed to such obligations, then any and all such\nobligations, so signed by such agent or attorney in fact without the seal of\nsuch corporation, whether the agent or attorney in fact has used a scroll by way\nof seal or not, or whether the word “seal” is used in the body of\nthe instrument or not, shall, for all purposes, have the same force and effect,\nand be as binding in all respects upon such corporation, as if the seal of such\ncorporation had been duly and regularly affixed thereto.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1919, \u00a7 285.","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}}