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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75061</law_id><section_number>8.01-446.1</section_number><catch_line>Keeping of docket books by clerk of court using micrographic process; form</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-451</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="5">Keeping of Docket Books; Execution Thereon; Disposal of Exhibits</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever <span class="dictionary">judgments</span> are docketed in the judgment <span class="dictionary">lien</span> book in the office of the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> and are recorded by a procedural micrographic process as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Recording by microphotographic or electronic process" href="/17.1-240/">17.1-240</a>, or by any other method or process which renders impractical or impossible the subsequent entry of notations upon the docketed judgment, an appropriate certificate of assignment, release, partial release, certified copy of any <span class="dictionary">order</span>, or other separate instrument setting forth the necessary information as provided in this section shall be recorded and indexed according to <span class="dictionary">law</span>. Such instrument shall conform substantially with the following form:
		ORIGINAL BOOK # _____ PAGE _____ (or instrument no)
		ORIGINAL DATE DOCKETED: ____________________
		TYPE OF FILING (Check One)
		( ) Assignment
		( ) Release
		( ) Partial Release
		( ) Credit(s)
		( ) Additional Debtor(s)
		( ) New Name of Debtor
		Date of Judgment: ____________________
		Amount of Judgment: ____________________
		<span class="dictionary">Plaintiff</span>(s): ________________________________________
		<span class="dictionary">Defendant</span>(s): ________________________________________
		Assignee (If assignment): ________________________________________
		Payments (If credits): AMOUNT __________ DATE PAID __________
		(Complete below if additional debtor or change of name of debtor)
		Debtor: ________________________________________
		Social Security Number of Debtor (Last Four Digits) (If known): __________
		Given under my hand this __________ day of __________, __________
		________________________________________(<span class="dictionary">Plaintiff</span>) (Attorney for <span class="dictionary">Plaintiff</span>)(Authorized Agent for <span class="dictionary">Plaintiff</span>)
		Any <span class="dictionary">judgment creditor</span> who knowingly gives false information upon such certificate made under this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>1985, c. 48; 2008, cc. 823, 833.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
