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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56904</law_id><section_number>8.01-466</section_number><catch_line>Clerk to issue fieri facias on judgment for money</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-103</reference><reference>55.1-2811</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="18">Executions and Other Means of Recovery</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Issue and Form; Motion to Quash</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>On a judgment for money, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> in which such judgment was rendered, upon request of the <span class="dictionary">judgment creditor</span>, his assignee or his attorney, to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a <span class="dictionary">writ of fieri facias</span> at the expiration of twenty-one days from the date of the entry of the judgment and place the same in the hands of a proper <span class="dictionary">person</span> to be executed and take his receipt therefor. The writ shall be issued together with the form for requesting a <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> on a claim of exemption from <span class="dictionary">levy</span> as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Exemption claims form" href="/8.01-546.1/">8.01-546.1</a>. For good cause the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may <span class="dictionary">order</span> an execution to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> on <span class="dictionary">judgments</span> and <span class="dictionary">decrees</span> at an earlier period.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-399; 1954, c. 620; 1976, c. 354; 1977, c. 617; 1986, c. 341; 1996, cc. 501, 608.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
