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This law was first created in 1988. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 100 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1988 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 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 1994, chapter 432<\/a>; in 1996, chapter 344<\/a>; in 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":71931,"section_number":"17.1-275","catch_line":"Fees collected by clerks of circuit courts; generally","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275\/"}],"permalink":{"id":245681,"object_type":"law","relational_id":61997,"identifier":"55.1-652","token":"55.1\/II\/6\/6\/55.1-652","url":"\/55.1-652\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-652\/","token":"55.1\/II\/6\/6\/55.1-652","dublin_core":{"Title":"Certificates of commencement of case in bankruptcy","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-652","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Certificates of commencement of case signed by clerks of bankruptcy courts<\/span> or clerks of United States district courts, issued pursuant to the acts of Congress relating to bankruptcy, may be filed with the clerk of the court<\/span> authorized to record deeds for the county or city in which the property of the debtor, for which such certificate has been issued, is located. Such certificate shall be recorded in the deed books and properly indexed in the name of the trustee in bankruptcy in the grantee index and the debtor in the grantor index. For such recordation, the clerk shall receive a fee as prescribed in subdivision A 2 of \u00a7 17.1-275<\/a>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCERTIFICATES OF COMMENCEMENT OF CASE IN BANKRUPTCY (\u00a7 55.1-652)\n\nCertificates of commencement of case signed by clerks of bankruptcy courts or\nclerks of United States district courts, issued pursuant to the acts of Congress\nrelating to bankruptcy, may be filed with the clerk of the court authorized to\nrecord deeds for the county or city in which the property of the debtor, for\nwhich such certificate has been issued, is located. Such certificate shall be\nrecorded in the deed books and properly indexed in the name of the trustee in\nbankruptcy in the grantee index and the debtor in the grantor index. For such\nrecordation, the clerk shall receive a fee as prescribed in subdivision A 2 of\n\u00a7 17.1-275.\n\nHISTORY: 1988, c. 100, \u00a7 55-142.01; 1994, c. 432; 1996, c. 344; 2019, c. 712.","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}}