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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56435</law_id><section_number>58.1-3172</section_number><catch_line>Lien of judgment and execution in such proceeding</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="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Local Taxes</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="31">Local Officers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Treasurers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> obtained pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Attorney General to proceed against delinquent treasurers and their sureties; recordation of notice" href="/58.1-3171/">58.1-3171</a>, against the treasurer or against the treasurer and his sureties, jointly or severally, shall be a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> on all real estate owned by such treasurer or <span class="dictionary">surety</span> in any county or city of the Commonwealth. Such <span class="dictionary">lien</span> shall arise at the time the <span class="dictionary">motion</span> provided for in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Attorney General to proceed against delinquent treasurers and their sureties; recordation of notice" href="/58.1-3171/">58.1-3171</a> is recorded and indexed in such county or city. An execution on such <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> shall bind all the personal estate of such treasurer and sureties, jointly and severally, respectively, at the time such <span class="dictionary">motion</span> is recorded and indexed before the return day of such execution. However such execution shall not be binding as against (i) an assignee for valuable consideration of any of such personal estate which is not capable of being levied on under an execution or (ii) a person making a payment to such treasurer. The <span class="dictionary">lien</span> of the execution by virtue of this section shall not affect such assignee or person making payment unless he had notice of the execution or of the pendency of the proceeding at the time of the assignment or payment, as the case may be.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-977; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
