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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72122</law_id><section_number>8.01-115</section_number><catch_line>Bond required as prerequisite</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-119</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="12">Detinue</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No such <span class="dictionary">order</span> or process, however, shall be issued until a <span class="dictionary">bond</span>, conforming with the requirements of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Plaintiff to file bond" href="/8.01-537.1/">8.01-537.1</a>, is posted with the <span class="dictionary">judge</span> or <span class="dictionary">magistrate</span>, in a <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> at least double the estimated fair market value of the property claimed, payable to the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>, with the additional condition to redeliver the property so seized to the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>, or to the <span class="dictionary">person</span> from whose <span class="dictionary">possession</span> it was taken, if the right to the <span class="dictionary">possession</span> shall be adjudged against the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-587; 1977, cc. 230, 617; 1986, c. 341; 1993, c. 841.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
