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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59877</law_id><section_number>8.01-130.11</section_number><catch_line>When officer may enter by force to levy distress or attachment</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="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="13.1">Warrants in Distress</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The officer having such distress warrant, or an <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> for rent, if there be need for it, may, in the daytime, break open and enter into any house or close in which there may be goods liable to the distress or <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> and may, either in the day or night, break open and enter any house or close wherein there may be any goods so liable that have been fraudulently or clandestinely removed from the demised premises. He may also <span class="dictionary">levy</span> such distress warrant or <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> on property liable for the rent found in the personal <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of the <span class="dictionary">party</span> liable therefor.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5526; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-235; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
