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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 1977, chapter 617.<\/p>","references":[{"id":55282,"section_number":"8.01-394","catch_line":"How contents of any such lost record, etc., proved","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.01-394\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":277415,"object_type":"law","relational_id":57601,"identifier":"8.01-393","token":"8.01\/14\/3\/8.01-393","url":"\/8.01-393\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.01-393\/","token":"8.01\/14\/3\/8.01-393","dublin_core":{"Title":"When book or paper or equivalent in clerk’s office lost, destroyed, or illegible to be again recorded","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.01-393","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

When any such book, or any book, microfilm record, or record in other form containing the record of wills, deeds, or other papers, or any other paper filed in a clerk’s office, is lost, destroyed, or is illegible, the clerk in whose office such book or paper was, upon the production to him of any original paper which was recorded in such book, or of an attested copy of the record thereof, or of anything else in such book, or of any paper so filed, shall, on application, record the same anew. The record shall show whether it is made from an original or a copy, and how the paper from which it was made was authenticated or attested. Such record shall have, as far as may be, the same effect that the record or paper for which it is substituted would have had.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nWHEN BOOK OR PAPER OR EQUIVALENT IN CLERK’S OFFICE LOST, DESTROYED, OR\nILLEGIBLE TO BE AGAIN RECORDED (\u00a7 8.01-393)\n\nWhen any such book, or any book, microfilm record, or record in other form\ncontaining the record of wills, deeds, or other papers, or any other paper filed\nin a clerk’s office, is lost, destroyed, or is illegible, the clerk in\nwhose office such book or paper was, upon the production to him of any original\npaper which was recorded in such book, or of an attested copy of the record\nthereof, or of anything else in such book, or of any paper so filed, shall, on\napplication, record the same anew. The record shall show whether it is made from\nan original or a copy, and how the paper from which it was made was\nauthenticated or attested. Such record shall have, as far as may be, the same\neffect that the record or paper for which it is substituted would have had.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 8-281; 1977, c. 617.","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}}