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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56185</law_id><section_number>17.1-607</section_number><catch_line>Security for costs upon suit by nonresident</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="6">Costs Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In any <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span>&#x2019;s suit or action by a nonresident of the Commonwealth, except when such <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> is <span class="dictionary">indigent</span>, upon <span class="dictionary">motion</span> by any <span class="dictionary">party</span> to such suit or action and for good cause shown, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may <span class="dictionary">order</span> that the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> post security within 60 days following entry of such <span class="dictionary">order</span> in an amount determined to be sufficient by such <span class="dictionary">court</span> but not exceeding $250 for the payment of costs in the <span class="dictionary">court</span> in which the suit or action is instituted and that may be awarded to the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>. Any security so given may be by (i) payment to the moving <span class="dictionary">party</span> or his <span class="dictionary">counsel</span>, who shall hold such payment in trust in an interest-bearing account for the benefit of the prevailing <span class="dictionary">party</span> in such suit or action; (ii) payment into the <span class="dictionary">court</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="How money under control of court deposited; record kept; liability of clerk" href="/8.01-600/">8.01-600</a>; or (iii) <span class="dictionary">bond</span>, payable to the Commonwealth, but there need only be one obligor therein, if such obligor be sufficient and a resident of the Commonwealth. The <span class="dictionary">court</span> before whom, or before whose clerk, such <span class="dictionary">bond</span> or other payment made pursuant to this section is given, may, on <span class="dictionary">motion</span> by a <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> or officer, give <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for so much as he is entitled to by virtue of such <span class="dictionary">bond</span> or other payment made pursuant to this section.
		As used in this section, the term &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span>&#x201D; shall also apply to a <span class="dictionary">counterclaim</span> <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span>, <span class="dictionary">cross-claim</span> <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span>, or third-<span class="dictionary">party</span> <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span>, and the term &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">defendant</span>&#x201D; shall also apply to a <span class="dictionary">counterclaim</span> <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>, <span class="dictionary">cross-claim</span> <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>, or third-<span class="dictionary">party</span> <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 14-182; 1964, c. 386, &#xA7; 14.1-185; 1998, c. 872; 2024, c. 745.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
