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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62841</law_id><section_number>8.01-501</section_number><catch_line>Lien of fieri facias on estate of debtor not capable of being levied on</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-119</reference><reference>6.2-2304</reference><reference>8.01-365</reference><reference>8.01-502</reference><reference>8.01-503</reference><reference>8.01-505</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="5">Lien on Property Not Capable of Being Levied on</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every <span class="dictionary">writ of fieri facias</span> shall, in addition to the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> it has under &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="On what property writ of fieri facias levied; when lien commences" href="/8.01-478/">8.01-478</a> and <a class="law" title="Time for enforcement" href="/8.01-479/">8.01-479</a> on what is capable of being levied on under those sections, be a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> from the time it is delivered to a <span class="dictionary">sheriff</span> or other officer, or any <span class="dictionary">person</span> authorized to serve process pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Authorization to serve process, capias or show cause order; execute writ of possession or eviction and levy upon property" href="/8.01-293/">8.01-293</a>, to be executed, on all the personal estate of or to which the <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span> is, or may afterwards and on or before the return day of such writ or before the return day of any <span class="dictionary">wage garnishment</span> to enforce the same, become, possessed or entitled, in which, from its nature is not capable of being levied on under such sections, except such as is exempt under the provisions of Title 34, and except that, as against an assignee of any such estate for valuable consideration, the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> by virtue of this section shall not affect him unless he had notice thereof at the time of the assignment.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-431; 1977, c. 617; 1996, c. 1002; 2006, c. 575.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
