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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65409</law_id><section_number>8.01-510</section_number><catch_line>Sale, collection and disposition of debtor&amp;#8217;s estate by officer</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>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>Real estate, conveyed to an officer under this chapter, shall, unless the <span class="dictionary">court</span> otherwise direct, be sold as other property levied on is required to be sold under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Sale of property" href="/8.01-492/">8.01-492</a> and be conveyed to the purchaser by the officer. An officer to whom there is delivery under this chapter, when the delivery is of money, bank notes, or any goods or chattels, shall dispose of the same as if levied on by him under a fieri facias; and when the delivery is of <span class="dictionary">evidences</span> of debts, other than such bank notes, may receive payment of such debts within sixty days after such delivery. Any <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> of debt or other security, remaining in his hands at the end of such sixty days, shall be returned by him to the clerk&#x2019;s office of such <span class="dictionary">court</span>, and collection thereof may be enforced as prescribed by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Suit by officer to recover estate on which fieri facias is lien" href="/8.01-497/">8.01-497</a>. For a failure to make such return, he may be proceeded against as if an express <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> for such return had been disobeyed.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-440; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
