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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61477</law_id><section_number>8.01-426</section_number><catch_line>&amp;#8220;Judgment&amp;#8221; includes decree</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-100</reference><reference>20-107.3</reference><reference>43-64</reference><reference>8.01-475</reference><reference>8.01-497</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="17">Judgments and Decrees Generally</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">In General</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">decree</span> for land or specific personal property, and a <span class="dictionary">decree</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span> requiring the payment of money, shall have the effect of a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for such land, property, or money, and be embraced by the word &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">judgment</span>,&#x201D; where used in this chapter or in Chapters 18, 19 or 20 of this title or in Title 43; but a <span class="dictionary">party</span> may proceed to carry into execution a <span class="dictionary">decree</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span> other than for the payment of money, as he might have done if this and the following section had not been enacted.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-343; 1977, c. 617; 2005, c. 681.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
