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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56347</law_id><section_number>8.01-572</section_number><catch_line>Sale of real estate attached</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="3">Subsequent Proceedings Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No real estate shall be sold until all other property and money subject to the <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> have been exhausted, and then only so much thereof as is necessary to pay the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>. Upon a sale of real estate, under an <span class="dictionary">attachment</span> the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall have the same powers and <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>, and like proceedings thereon may be had, as if it were a sale of real estate by a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of <span class="dictionary">equity</span> exercising general <span class="dictionary">equity</span> powers.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-559; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
