                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ISSUANCE OF EXECUTIONS AND ABSTRACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BY INTERROGATORIES AFTER
PAPERS RETURNED TO CIRCUIT COURT (§ 16.1-116)

When a judgment has been rendered in a civil action in a general district court
and the papers in the action have been returned to the clerk of the circuit
court for filing and preserving, executions upon and abstracts of the judgment
may be issued by the clerk of such circuit court within the periods permitted
under § 8.01-251, provided that such judgment has been duly entered in the
judgment lien docket book of such court. However, for a period of two years from
the date of any such judgment, the judge or clerk of the general district court
may also issue executions upon and abstracts of the judgment. In addition,
proceedings by interrogatories may be had in the circuit court as if the
judgment had been rendered by that court.

HISTORY: 1956, c. 555; 1962, c. 444; 1983, c. 499.