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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60748</law_id><section_number>43-43</section_number><catch_line>Lien on offspring of bull</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>17.1-267</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="5">Liens on Offspring of Certain Animals</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A person owning a bull in this Commonwealth shall have a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> on the get of such bull for the period of six months from the date of the birth of such get, for the price agreed upon between him and the owner of any cow served by such bull; however, this <span class="dictionary">lien</span> shall not hold good as against an innocent purchaser for value and without notice, except when the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> has been admitted to record, which may be done in the following form:
		&#x2026;&#x2026;&#x2026;&#x2026;&#x2026;&#x2026;&#x2026; (giving the name of the owner of the bull) versus&#x2026;
		(giving the name of the owner of the calf). The owner of the bull claims a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> on a calf less than six months old for $&#x2026;&#x2026;&#x2026;&#x2026;&#x2026;., for the get thereof.
		It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county in which the calf is calved to place the same on record in the miscellaneous <span class="dictionary">lien</span> book.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 6447; Tax Code, &#xA7; 439; 1994, c. 432.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
