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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72153</law_id><section_number>55.1-1422</section_number><catch_line>How owner relieved in court</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="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Rental Conveyances</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="14">Nonresidential Tenancies</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="5">Miscellaneous Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If the owner of lands subject to a proceeding filed pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;55-1419, or any person having right or claim to such land, files within the appropriate time his complaint for relief, he shall not have or continue any <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> against the proceedings at <span class="dictionary">law</span> on the ejectment, unless, within 30 days following a full and perfect answer filed by the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> in ejectment, he brings into <span class="dictionary">court</span>, or deposits in a bank within the Commonwealth to the credit of the cause, such money as the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> in ejectment, in his answers, swears to be due and in arrear, over and above all just allowances and also the costs taxed in the action, there to remain until the <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> of the cause, or to be paid out to the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> on good security, subject to the <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span>. If the complaint is filed within the appropriate time, and after execution executed, the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> shall be accountable for no more than he, really and bona fide, without <span class="dictionary">fraud</span>, deceit, or willful neglect, makes of the premises from the time of his entering into the actual <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of the premises, and if it is less than the rent payable, then the <span class="dictionary">possession</span> shall not be restored until the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> is paid the balance of the rent for the time he so held the lands.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5533; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-242; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
