                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROVISIONS AND CONDITIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND RECORDATION; DUTY OF CLERK WHEN
TAKEN IN PENDING CAUSE (§ 49-12)

Every bond required by law to be taken or approved by or given before any court,
board or officer, unless otherwise provided, shall be made payable to the
Commonwealth of Virginia, with surety deemed sufficient by such court, board or
officer. Every such bond required of any person appointed to or undertaking any
office, post or trust, and every bond required to be taken of any person by an
order or decree of court, unless otherwise provided, shall be with condition for
the faithful discharge by him of the duties of his office, post or trust. When
such bond is required to be taken or approved by or before the Governor, a court
or the clerk of a court, it shall be proved or acknowledged before the Governor
or court or clerk, as the case may be, and recorded by the Secretary of the
Commonwealth in the first case, or by the clerk of the court in the other cases.
When the bond is taken under an order or decree in a pending cause a certified
copy thereof shall be filed in the cause by the clerk and charged as costs
therein, and upon his failure to file such copy, he shall be fined ten dollars.
Every such bond shall contain, as to the respective obligors, such a waiver as
is provided for in § 34-22. In any such bond the liability of the surety or
sureties may be limited to such sum or sums as they may respectively require.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 279.