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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70377</law_id><section_number>17.1-248</section_number><catch_line>Clerk to make index to each of his books</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Records, Recordation and Indexing Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The clerk of every <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall have an index to each book he is required to keep, except those for which general indexes are required or permitted, and kept, making convenient reference to every <span class="dictionary">order</span>, record or entry therein. Every execution and every <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> for money shall be indexed, in the name of the person against whom and in the name of the person in whose favor the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> was rendered.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 3391, &#xA7; 17-78; 1942, p. 179; 1998, c. 872.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
