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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75643</law_id><section_number>8.01-440</section_number><catch_line>Docketing and execution</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>17.1-275</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="2">Judgments by Confession</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The clerk shall forthwith docket such judgment in the current <span class="dictionary">judgment lien docket</span> in his office and shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> execution thereon as he may be directed by the <span class="dictionary">creditor</span> therein named, or his assigns, in the manner prescribed by <span class="dictionary">law</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-364; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
