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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69965</law_id><section_number>8.01-508</section_number><catch_line>How debtor may be arrested and held to answer</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-506.2</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="6">Interrogatories</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any <span class="dictionary">person</span> summoned under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Proceedings by interrogatories to ascertain estate of debtor; summons; proviso; objections by judgment debtor" href="/8.01-506/">8.01-506</a> fails to appear and answer, or makes any answers which are deemed by the commissioner or <span class="dictionary">court</span> to be evasive, or if, having answered, fails to make such conveyance and delivery as is required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Conveyance or delivery of property disclosed by interrogatories" href="/8.01-507/">8.01-507</a>, the commissioner or <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> (i) a <span class="dictionary">capias</span> directed to any <span class="dictionary">sheriff</span> requiring such <span class="dictionary">sheriff</span> to take the <span class="dictionary">person</span> in <span class="dictionary">default</span> and deliver him to the commissioner or <span class="dictionary">court</span> so that he may be compelled to make proper answers, or such conveyance or delivery, as the case may be or (ii) a rule to show cause why the <span class="dictionary">person</span> summoned should not appear and make proper answer or make conveyance and delivery. If the <span class="dictionary">person</span> in <span class="dictionary">default</span> fails to answer or convey and deliver he may be incarcerated until he makes such answers or conveyance and delivery. Where a <span class="dictionary">capias</span> is issued, the <span class="dictionary">person</span> in <span class="dictionary">default</span> shall be admitted to <span class="dictionary">bail</span> as provided in Article 1 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/19.2-119/">19.2-119</a> et seq.) of Chapter 9 of Title 19.2 if he cannot be brought promptly before the commissioner or <span class="dictionary">court</span> in the county or city to which the <span class="dictionary">capias</span> is returnable. Upon making such answers, or such conveyance and delivery, he shall be discharged by the commissioner or the <span class="dictionary">court</span>. He may also be discharged by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> from whose clerk&#x2019;s office the <span class="dictionary">capias</span> issued in any case where the <span class="dictionary">court</span> is of the <span class="dictionary">opinion</span> that he was improperly committed or is improperly or unlawfully detained in <span class="dictionary">custody</span>. If the <span class="dictionary">person</span> in <span class="dictionary">default</span> <span class="dictionary">appeals</span> the decision of the commissioner or <span class="dictionary">court</span>, he shall be admitted to <span class="dictionary">bail</span> as provided in Article 1 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/19.2-119/">19.2-119</a> et seq.) of Chapter 9 of Title 19.2.
		If the <span class="dictionary">person</span> held for failure to appear and answer <span class="dictionary">interrogatories</span> is detained in a <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> other than that where the <span class="dictionary">summons</span> is issued, the <span class="dictionary">sheriff</span> in the requesting <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> shall have the duty to transport such <span class="dictionary">person</span> to the place where <span class="dictionary">interrogatories</span> are to be taken.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-438; 1977, c. 617; 1983, c. 278; 1985, c. 290; 1986, c. 326; 1999, cc. 829, 846.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
