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A specific judgment for money shall state that it is a judgment for money in a specific amount in favor of a named party, against a named party, with that party’s address, if known, and it shall further state the time from which the judgment bears interest. An order of restitution docketed pursuant to \u00a7 19.2-305.2 shall have the same force and effect as a specific judgment for money and shall state that it is an order of restitution in a specific amount in favor of a named party, against a named party, with that party’s address, if known, and it shall further state the time from which the judgment bears interest. If the clerk determines that an abstract is not legible, the clerk shall refuse to record it and shall return it to the person who tendered the abstract for recording. No judgment for assessments described in subsection A of \u00a7 17.1-275.5 or for the fees provided for by \u00a7 17.1-275.1, 17.1-275.2, 17.1-275.3, 17.1-275.4, 17.1-275.7, 17.1-275.8, 17.1-275.9, 17.1-275.10, 17.1-275.11, 17.1-275.11:1, or 17.1-275.12 or for all other fines and costs shall be recorded as a judgment in favor of the Commonwealth if such fees, assessments, fines, or costs have been fully paid by the defendant by the date of sentencing by the court.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":245232,"text":"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 \u00a7 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 any judgment for a specific amount of money rendered in this Commonwealth by any other court of this Commonwealth or federal court, when he shall be required so to do by any person interested, on such person delivering to him an authenticated legible abstract of it and also upon the request of any person interested therein, any such judgment rendered by a district court judge whose book has been filed in his office under the provisions of Title 16.1 or of which a legible abstract is delivered to him certified by the district court judge who rendered it; provided, that judgments docketed in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of the City of Williamsburg and the County of James City shall be docketed and indexed in one book. A specific judgment for money shall state that it is a judgment for money in a specific amount in favor of a named party, against a named party, with that party’s address, if known, and it shall further state the time from which the judgment bears interest. An order of restitution docketed pursuant to \u00a7 19.2-305.2 shall have the same force and effect as a specific judgment for money and shall state that it is an order of restitution in a specific amount in favor of a named party, against a named party, with that party’s address, if known, and it shall further state the time from which the judgment bears interest. If the clerk determines that an abstract is not legible, the clerk shall refuse to record it and shall return it to the person who tendered the abstract for recording. No judgment for assessments described in subsection A of \u00a7 17.1-275.5 or for the fees provided for by \u00a7 17.1-275.1, 17.1-275.2, 17.1-275.3, 17.1-275.4, 17.1-275.7, 17.1-275.8, 17.1-275.9, 17.1-275.10, 17.1-275.11, 17.1-275.11:1, or 17.1-275.12 or for all other fines and costs shall be recorded as a judgment in favor of the Commonwealth if such fees, assessments, fines, or costs have been fully paid by the defendant by the date of sentencing by the court.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":15678,"edition_id":1,"name":"Keeping of Docket Books; Execution Thereon; Disposal of Exhibits","identifier":"5","label":"article","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":14169,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:57:46","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:57:46","permalink":{"id":277847,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":15678,"identifier":"5","token":"8.01\/17\/5","url":"\/8.01\/17\/5\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":14169,"edition_id":1,"name":"Judgments and Decrees Generally","identifier":"17","label":"chapter","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12747,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:47:07","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:47:07","permalink":{"id":277749,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":14169,"identifier":"17","token":"8.01\/17","url":"\/8.01\/17\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12747,"edition_id":1,"name":"Civil Remedies and Procedure","identifier":"8.01","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","permalink":{"id":277029,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12747,"identifier":"8.01","token":"8.01","url":"\/8.01\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":67694,"structure_id":15678,"section_number":"8.01-446","catch_line":"Clerks to keep judgment dockets; what judgments to be docketed therein","url":"\/8.01-446\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-446","metadata":false},{"id":75061,"structure_id":15678,"section_number":"8.01-446.1","catch_line":"Keeping of docket books by clerk of court using micrographic process; form","url":"\/8.01-446.1\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-446.1","metadata":false},{"id":60005,"structure_id":15678,"section_number":"8.01-447","catch_line":"Docketing of judgments and decrees of United States courts","url":"\/8.01-447\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-447","metadata":false},{"id":62603,"structure_id":15678,"section_number":"8.01-448","catch_line":"Attorney General, etc., to have judgments in favor of Commonwealth docketed","url":"\/8.01-448\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-448","metadata":false},{"id":78399,"structure_id":15678,"section_number":"8.01-449","catch_line":"How judgments are docketed","url":"\/8.01-449\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-449","metadata":false},{"id":70233,"structure_id":15678,"section_number":"8.01-450","catch_line":"How indexed","url":"\/8.01-450\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-450","metadata":false},{"id":76349,"structure_id":15678,"section_number":"8.01-451","catch_line":"Judgments to be docketed and indexed in new names of judgment debtors; how execution may thereafter issue","url":"\/8.01-451\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-451","metadata":false},{"id":86039,"structure_id":15678,"section_number":"8.01-452","catch_line":"Entry of assignment of judgment on judgment lien docket","url":"\/8.01-452\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-452","metadata":false},{"id":82166,"structure_id":15678,"section_number":"8.01-452.1","catch_line":"Disposal of exhibits in civil cases","url":"\/8.01-452.1\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-452.1","metadata":false}],"next_section":{"id":75061,"structure_id":15678,"section_number":"8.01-446.1","catch_line":"Keeping of docket books by clerk of court using micrographic process; form","url":"\/8.01-446.1\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-446.1","metadata":false},"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/8.01-446\/","history_text":"

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 438; in 1962, chapter 568; in 1973, chapter 544; in 1975, chapters 182 and 575; in 1977, chapter 617; in 1993, chapter 412; in 1994, chapter 538<\/a>; in 1995, chapter 434<\/a>; in 1997, chapter 579<\/a>; in 2008, chapters 823<\/a> and 833<\/a>; in 2013, chapter 263<\/a>; in 2015, chapter 641<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":78494,"section_number":"15.2-908","catch_line":"Authority of localities to remove or repair the defacement of buildings, walls, fences and other structures","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-908\/"},{"id":59038,"section_number":"17.1-275.5","catch_line":"Amounts to be added; judgment in favor of the Commonwealth","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.5\/"},{"id":64813,"section_number":"17.1-292","catch_line":"Applicability; definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-292\/"},{"id":59341,"section_number":"19.2-305.2","catch_line":"Amount of restitution; enforcement","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-305.2\/"},{"id":78399,"section_number":"8.01-449","catch_line":"How judgments are docketed","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.01-449\/"},{"id":62879,"section_number":"8.01-455","catch_line":"Court, on motion of defendant, etc., may have payment of judgment entered","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.01-455\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":82298,"section_number":"17.1-240","catch_line":"Recording by microphotographic or electronic process","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-240\/"},{"id":61643,"section_number":"17.1-275.1","catch_line":"Fixed felony fee","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.1\/"},{"id":70084,"section_number":"17.1-275.10","catch_line":"Additional fee","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.10\/"},{"id":64932,"section_number":"17.1-275.11","catch_line":"Additional fee assessed for conviction of certain offenses","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.11\/"},{"id":67534,"section_number":"17.1-275.11:1","catch_line":"Additional fee assessed for conviction requiring computer analysis","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.11_1\/"},{"id":62558,"section_number":"17.1-275.12","catch_line":"Additional fee for Internet Crimes Against Children Fund","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.12\/"},{"id":87137,"section_number":"17.1-275.2","catch_line":"Fixed fee for felony reduced to misdemeanor","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.2\/"},{"id":60091,"section_number":"17.1-275.3","catch_line":"Fixed felony revocation fee","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.3\/"},{"id":87119,"section_number":"17.1-275.4","catch_line":"Fixed misdemeanor reduced from felony revocation fee","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.4\/"},{"id":59038,"section_number":"17.1-275.5","catch_line":"Amounts to be added; judgment in favor of the Commonwealth","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.5\/"},{"id":78190,"section_number":"17.1-275.7","catch_line":"Fixed misdemeanor fee","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.7\/"},{"id":69998,"section_number":"17.1-275.8","catch_line":"Fixed drug misdemeanor fee","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.8\/"},{"id":59327,"section_number":"17.1-275.9","catch_line":"Fixed misdemeanor revocation fee","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275.9\/"},{"id":59341,"section_number":"19.2-305.2","catch_line":"Amount of restitution; enforcement","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-305.2\/"}],"permalink":{"id":277849,"object_type":"law","relational_id":67694,"identifier":"8.01-446","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-446","url":"\/8.01-446\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.01-446\/","token":"8.01\/17\/5\/8.01-446","dublin_core":{"Title":"Clerks to keep judgment dockets; what judgments to be docketed therein","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.01-446","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The clerk of each court<\/span> of every circuit<\/span> shall keep in his office, in a well-bound book, or by microphotographic or electronic process allowed by \u00a7 17.1-240<\/a>, a judgment<\/span> docket<\/span>, in which he shall docket<\/span>, without delay, any judgment<\/span> for a specific amount of money rendered in his court<\/span>, and shall likewise docket<\/span> without delay any judgment<\/span> for a specific amount of money rendered in this Commonwealth by any other court<\/span> of this Commonwealth or federal court<\/span>, when he shall be required so to do by any person<\/span> interested, on such person<\/span> delivering to him an authenticated legible abstract of it and also upon the request of any person<\/span> interested therein, any such judgment<\/span> rendered by a district court<\/span> judge<\/span> whose book has been filed in his office under the provisions of Title 16.1 or of which a legible abstract is delivered to him certified by the district court<\/span> judge<\/span> who rendered it; provided, that judgments<\/span> docketed in the clerk’s office of the Circuit<\/span> Court<\/span> of the City of Williamsburg and the County of James City shall be docketed and indexed in one book. A specific judgment<\/span> for money shall state that it is a judgment<\/span> for money in a specific amount in favor of a named party<\/span>, against a named party<\/span>, with that party<\/span>’s address, if known, and it shall further state the time from which the judgment<\/span> bears interest. An order<\/span> of restitution<\/span> docketed pursuant to \u00a7 19.2-305.2<\/a> shall have the same force and effect as a specific judgment<\/span> for money and shall state that it is an order<\/span> of restitution<\/span> in a specific amount in favor of a named party<\/span>, against a named party<\/span>, with that party<\/span>’s address, if known, and it shall further state the time from which the judgment<\/span> bears interest. If the clerk determines that an abstract is not legible, the clerk shall refuse to record it and shall return it to the person<\/span> who tendered the abstract for recording. No judgment<\/span> for assessments described in subsection A of \u00a7 17.1-275.5<\/a> or for the fees provided for by \u00a7 17.1-275.1<\/a>, 17.1-275.2<\/a>, 17.1-275.3<\/a>, 17.1-275.4<\/a>, 17.1-275.7<\/a>, 17.1-275.8<\/a>, 17.1-275.9<\/a>, 17.1-275.10<\/a>, 17.1-275.11<\/a>, 17.1-275.11:1<\/a>, or 17.1-275.12<\/a> or for all other fines and costs shall be recorded as a judgment<\/span> in favor of the Commonwealth if such fees, assessments, fines, or costs have been fully paid by the defendant<\/span> by the date of sentencing by the court<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCLERKS TO KEEP JUDGMENT DOCKETS; WHAT JUDGMENTS TO BE DOCKETED THEREIN (\u00a7\n8.01-446)\n\nThe clerk of each court of every circuit shall keep in his office, in a\nwell-bound book, or by microphotographic or electronic process allowed by \u00a7\n17.1-240, a judgment docket, in which he shall docket, without delay, any\njudgment for a specific amount of money rendered in his court, and shall\nlikewise docket without delay any judgment for a specific amount of money\nrendered in this Commonwealth by any other court of this Commonwealth or federal\ncourt, when he shall be required so to do by any person interested, on such\nperson delivering to him an authenticated legible abstract of it and also upon\nthe request of any person interested therein, any such judgment rendered by a\ndistrict court judge whose book has been filed in his office under the\nprovisions of Title 16.1 or of which a legible abstract is delivered to him\ncertified by the district court judge who rendered it; provided, that judgments\ndocketed in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of the City of\nWilliamsburg and the County of James City shall be docketed and indexed in one\nbook. A specific judgment for money shall state that it is a judgment for money\nin a specific amount in favor of a named party, against a named party, with that\nparty’s address, if known, and it shall further state the time from which\nthe judgment bears interest. An order of restitution docketed pursuant to \u00a7\n19.2-305.2 shall have the same force and effect as a specific judgment for money\nand shall state that it is an order of restitution in a specific amount in favor\nof a named party, against a named party, with that party’s address, if\nknown, and it shall further state the time from which the judgment bears\ninterest. If the clerk determines that an abstract is not legible, the clerk\nshall refuse to record it and shall return it to the person who tendered the\nabstract for recording. No judgment for assessments described in subsection A of\n\u00a7 17.1-275.5 or for the fees provided for by \u00a7 17.1-275.1, 17.1-275.2,\n17.1-275.3, 17.1-275.4, 17.1-275.7, 17.1-275.8, 17.1-275.9, 17.1-275.10,\n17.1-275.11, 17.1-275.11:1, or 17.1-275.12 or for all other fines and costs\nshall be recorded as a judgment in favor of the Commonwealth if such fees,\nassessments, fines, or costs have been fully paid by the defendant by the date\nof sentencing by the court.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 8-373; 1952, c. 438; 1962, c. 568; 1973, c. 544; 1975,\ncc. 182, 575; 1977, c. 617; 1993, c. 412; 1994, c. 538; 1995, c. 434; 1997, c.\n579; 2008, cc. 823, 833; 2013, c. 263; 2015, c. 641.","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}}