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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82878</law_id><section_number>8.01-365</section_number><catch_line>How claim of third party tried</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-366</reference><reference>8.01-372</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="12">Interpleader; Claims of Third Parties to Property Distrained or Levied On, Etc</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Claims of Third Parties to Property Distrained or Levied on</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When a <span class="dictionary">writ of fieri facias</span> issued from a <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span>, or a warrant of distress, is levied on property, or when a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> is acquired on money or other personal estate by virtue of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Lien of fieri facias on estate of debtor not capable of being levied on" href="/8.01-501/">8.01-501</a>, and when some other <span class="dictionary">person</span> than the one against whom the process issued claims the property, money, other personal estate, or some part or the proceeds thereof, then either (i) the claimant, if such suspending <span class="dictionary">bond</span> as is hereinafter mentioned has been given, (ii) the officer having such process, if no indemnifying <span class="dictionary">bond</span> has been given, or (iii) the <span class="dictionary">party</span> who had the process issued, may apply to try the claim, by <span class="dictionary">motion</span> to the adverse <span class="dictionary">party</span>, to the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the county or city wherein the property, money, or other personal estate is located.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-227; 1962, c. 10; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
