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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76308</law_id><section_number>8.01-554</section_number><catch_line>Where bond returned and filed; exceptions to bond</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-1134</reference><reference>46.2-613.4</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="20">Attachments and Bail in Civil Cases</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Summons; Levy; Lien; Bonds, Etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every such <span class="dictionary">bond</span> shall be returned by the officer to and filed by the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> in which the <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> is pending, or to which the <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> is returnable, and the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> may, within thirty days after the return thereof, file exceptions to the same, or to the sufficiency of the <span class="dictionary">surety</span> therein. If such exception be sustained, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall <span class="dictionary">order</span> the officer to file a good <span class="dictionary">bond</span>, with sufficient <span class="dictionary">surety</span>, to be approved by it, on or before a certain day to be fixed by the <span class="dictionary">court</span>. If he fail to do so, he and his sureties in his official <span class="dictionary">bond</span> shall be liable to the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> as for a breach of such <span class="dictionary">bond</span>; but the officer shall have the same rights and remedies against the parties to any <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> so adjudged bad as if he were a <span class="dictionary">surety</span> for them.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-541; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
