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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61629</law_id><section_number>8.01-103</section_number><catch_line>Special commissioner or other person appointed to do so to receive purchase money, etc.; liability of clerk for failure to give notice of appointment</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-209.2</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="11">General Provisions for Judicial Sales</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The special commissioner, who makes the sale or renting, shall receive and collect all the purchase money or rent, unless some other <span class="dictionary">person</span> be appointed to collect the same and in such case the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall require of such <span class="dictionary">person</span> <span class="dictionary">bond</span> with <span class="dictionary">surety</span> in such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> as to it may seem fit. When such appointment is made, it shall be the duty of the clerk to give notice thereof, in writing, to the purchaser or lessee, to be served as other notices are required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to be served; but no payment shall be made to the <span class="dictionary">person</span> so appointed, until he shall have given the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> required by the <span class="dictionary">decree</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span>; provided, however, that if, before the purchaser or lessee has received notice of such appointment, he shall have made any payment on account of the purchase money or rent to the special commissioner, or any <span class="dictionary">person</span> appointed for the purpose, who made the sale or renting, such special commissioner, or other <span class="dictionary">person</span>, who made the sale or renting, and the sureties on his <span class="dictionary">bond</span>, shall be responsible for the money so paid, and the purchaser or lessee, who made the payment, shall not be responsible therefor.
		If any clerk fail to give the notice hereinbefore required to be given by him, he and the sureties on his official <span class="dictionary">bond</span> shall be liable to any <span class="dictionary">person</span> injured by such failure.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-662; 1977, c. 617; 1978, c. 718.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
