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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63387</law_id><section_number>8.01-269</section_number><catch_line>Dismissal or satisfaction of same</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>55.1-402</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="6">Notice of Lis Pendens or Attachment</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If such <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> or lis pendens is quashed or dismissed or such cause is dismissed, or <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or final <span class="dictionary">decree</span> in such <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> or cause is for the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> or <span class="dictionary">defendants</span>, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall direct in its <span class="dictionary">order</span> (i) that the names of all interested parties thereto, as found in the recorded <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> or lis pendens be listed for the clerk, and (ii) that the <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> or lis pendens be released and, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may, in an appropriate case, impose <span class="dictionary">sanctions</span> as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Signing of pleadings, motions, and other papers; oral motions; sanctions" href="/8.01-271.1/">8.01-271.1</a>. It shall then become the duty of the clerk in whose office such <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> or lis pendens is recorded to record the <span class="dictionary">order</span> in the <span class="dictionary">order</span> book together with a separate instrument or <span class="dictionary">order</span> releasing such <span class="dictionary">lien</span> and referencing the deed book and page where the original <span class="dictionary">lien</span> is recorded. However, in any case in which an <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> or <span class="dictionary">writ</span> of error from such <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> or <span class="dictionary">dismissal</span> would lie, the clerk shall not record the <span class="dictionary">order</span> or make the entry until after the expiration of the time in which such <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> or <span class="dictionary">writ</span> of error may be applied for, or if applied for after refusal thereof, or if granted, after final <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> is entered by the <span class="dictionary">appellate</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span>.
		In any case in which the debt for which such <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> is issued, or <span class="dictionary">suit</span> is brought and notice of lis pendens recorded is satisfied by payment, it shall be the duty of the <span class="dictionary">creditor</span>, within 10 days after payment of same, to provide the clerk with a separate instrument or <span class="dictionary">order</span> for recordation releasing such lis pendens and referencing the <span class="dictionary">order</span> book and page where the original lis pendens is recorded.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-143; 1962, c. 589; 1977, c. 617; 1985, c. 310; 1986, c. 278; 1989, c. 450; 2014, c. 330.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
