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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65562</law_id><section_number>8.01-456</section_number><catch_line>Satisfaction of judgment when judgment creditor cannot be located</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-69.55</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="6">Satisfaction</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever a <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span> or anyone for him or any <span class="dictionary">party</span> liable on the judgment wishes to pay off and discharge a judgment, of record in any clerk&#x2019;s office in this Commonwealth, when the <span class="dictionary">judgment creditor</span> cannot be located, he may do so by paying into the <span class="dictionary">court</span> having <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> over such judgment an amount sufficient to pay the principal, interest, and all costs due thereupon, together with the cost of entering necessary <span class="dictionary">orders</span>, and other service attendant upon the proceeding herein provided for, and satisfaction upon such judgment. Upon such payment, the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, by an <span class="dictionary">order</span> entered of record shall direct the clerk to deposit the same at interest in any bank which is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and is designated in such <span class="dictionary">order</span>; to file <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> of such deposit in the office of the clerk in an appropriate file and shall be payable to the <span class="dictionary">court</span> entering the <span class="dictionary">order</span> for the benefit of the <span class="dictionary">judgment creditor</span>; and to enter upon the judgment <span class="dictionary">docket</span>, where the judgment is docketed, the date of such deposit, the date of the entry of the <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> receiving same, referring to the number and page of the <span class="dictionary">order</span> book in which it is entered.
		The <span class="dictionary">judgment creditor</span> or his attorney may have the money, so paid, to which he is entitled, upon application to the <span class="dictionary">court</span> therefor whenever it may appear to the <span class="dictionary">court</span> that it should be paid to him.
		From and after the time of such payment, into the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, as aforesaid, the property of the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> shall be free and clear of any <span class="dictionary">lien</span> created by any such judgment, or any execution issued thereupon.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-384; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
