                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PERFECTION AND ENFORCEMENT OF LIEN (§ 43-25)

No person shall be entitled to the lien given by § 43-24 unless he shall,
within ninety days after the last item of his bill becomes due and payable for
which such supplies are furnished or service rendered, file in the clerk&#8217;s
office of the circuit court of the county or circuit court of the city in which
is located the chief office in this Commonwealth of the company against which
the claim is, or in the clerk&#8217;s office of the Circuit Court of the City of
Richmond when such office is in the city, or within that time shall file with
the receiver, trustee or assignee of such company, a memorandum of the amount
and consideration of his claim, and the time or times when the same is, or will
become due and payable, verified by affidavit, which memorandum, if filed with
the clerk or in his office, the clerk shall forthwith record in the
miscellaneous lien book and index the same in the name of the claimant and also
in the name of the company against which the claim is, as required by § 43-4.
Any such lien may be enforced in a court of equity.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 6439; 1928, p. 760.