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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68827</law_id><section_number>43-17</section_number><catch_line>Limitation on suit to enforce lien</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>43-68</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="43">Mechanics' and Certain Other Liens</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No suit to enforce any <span class="dictionary">lien</span> perfected under &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Perfection of lien by general contractor; recordation and notice" href="/43-4/">43-4</a>, <a class="law" title="Sufficiency of memorandum and affidavit required by &#xA7; 43-4" href="/43-5/">43-5</a> and <a class="law" title="Perfection of lien by subcontractor; extent of lien; affirmative defense; provisions relating to time-share estates" href="/43-7/">43-7</a> to <a class="law" title="Sufficiency of memorandum, affidavit and notice required by &#xA7; 43-9" href="/43-10/">43-10</a> shall be brought after six months from the time when the <span class="dictionary">memorandum</span> of <span class="dictionary">lien</span> was recorded or after sixty days from the time the building, structure or railroad was completed or the work thereon otherwise terminated, whichever time shall last occur; provided, however, that the filing of a <span class="dictionary">petition</span> to enforce any such <span class="dictionary">lien</span> in any suit wherein such <span class="dictionary">petition</span> may be properly filed shall be regarded as the institution of a suit under this section; and, provided further, that nothing herein shall extend the time within which such <span class="dictionary">lien</span> may be perfected.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 6433; 1926, p. 43; 1956, c. 399.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
