                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FORFEITURE OF BAIL (§ 19.2-104)

If the prisoner is admitted to bail and fails to appear and surrender himself
according to the conditions of his bond, any judge of a circuit or general
district court by proper order, shall declare the bond forfeited and order his
immediate arrest without warrant if he be within this Commonwealth. Recovery may
be had on such bond in the name of the Commonwealth as in the case of other
bonds given by the accused in criminal proceedings within this Commonwealth.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-68; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.