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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71746</law_id><section_number>8.01-527</section_number><catch_line>If bond forfeited, where returned; its effect; clerk to endorse time of return</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-371</reference><reference>8.01-529</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="19">Forthcoming Bonds</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If the condition of such forthcoming <span class="dictionary">bond</span> be not performed, the officer, unless payment be made of the amount due on the execution or warrant, including his fee, commission, and charges as aforesaid, shall, after the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> is forfeited, return it forthwith, with the execution or warrant, to such <span class="dictionary">court</span>, or the clerk&#x2019;s office of such <span class="dictionary">court</span> as is prescribed by &#xA7;&#xA0;15.1-80. The clerk shall endorse on the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> the date of its return; and against such of the obligors therein as may be alive when it is forfeited and so returned, it shall have the force of a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>. But no execution shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> thereon under this section.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-451; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
