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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72018</law_id><section_number>8.01-496</section_number><catch_line>Officer not required to go out of his jurisdiction to pay over money</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="4">Enforcement Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No officer receiving money under execution, when the <span class="dictionary">person</span> to whom it is payable resides in a different county or city from that in which the officer resides, shall be liable to have any <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> rendered against him or his sureties for the nonpayment thereof, until a demand of payment be made of such officer in his county or city, by such <span class="dictionary">creditor</span> or his attorney-at-<span class="dictionary">law</span>, or some <span class="dictionary">person</span> having a written <span class="dictionary">order</span> from the <span class="dictionary">creditor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-425; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
