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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78085</law_id><section_number>8.01-683</section_number><catch_line>When Clerk of Supreme Court to transmit its decisions</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="26.2">Appeals Generally</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Limitations; Hearing and Decision</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When any term of the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> is ended, or sooner if the <span class="dictionary">court</span> so direct, the Clerk thereof shall certify and transmit its decision to the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> or tribunal below, as the case may be, except that it shall not be his duty to certify or transmit a copy of a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of affirmance unless the <span class="dictionary">appellee</span> shall have paid all fees due from him in the case, or shall endorse on such copy so much of the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>, for the benefit of the clerk, as the unpaid fees shall amount to. If any clerk fail to comply with this section for twenty days, except as aforesaid, he shall forfeit fifty dollars to any <span class="dictionary">person</span> aggrieved thereby.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-496; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
