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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75160</law_id><section_number>19.2-137</section_number><catch_line>Order of court on recognizance</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-90</reference><reference>8.01-408</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="19.2">Criminal Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="9">Bail and Recognizances</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Recognizances</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When such <span class="dictionary">recognizance</span> is taken by a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of a <span class="dictionary">person</span> to answer a charge or of a <span class="dictionary">witness</span> to give <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> it shall be sufficient for the <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> taking the <span class="dictionary">recognizance</span> to state that the <span class="dictionary">party</span> or parties recognized were duly recognized upon a <span class="dictionary">bond</span> in such sum as the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may have directed with such <span class="dictionary">surety</span> as the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may have accepted for his or their <span class="dictionary">appearance</span> before such <span class="dictionary">court</span> at such time as may have been prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> to answer for the <span class="dictionary">offense</span> with which such <span class="dictionary">person</span> is charged or to give <span class="dictionary">evidence</span>, as the case may be.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 19.1-129; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1991, c. 581.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
