                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WRITTEN ACT OF REENTRY TO BE RETURNED AND RECORDED AND CERTIFICATE OF REENTRY
PUBLISHED (§ 55.1-1425)

When actual reentry is made, the party by or for whom the reentry is made shall
return a written act of reentry, sworn to by the sheriff or another authorized
officer, to the clerk of the circuit court of the county or city in which the
lands or tenements are located. The clerk shall record the written act of
reentry in the deed book and shall deliver to the party making the reentry a
certificate setting forth the substance of such written act. Such certificate
shall be published at least once a week for two months successively in a
newspaper published in or nearest to such county or city. Such publication shall
be proved by affidavit to the satisfaction of the clerk, who shall record such
affidavit in the deed book. Such affidavit shall reference the book and page
where the original written act of reentry was recorded. The clerk shall return
the original act of reentry to the party entitled to it. The written act of
reentry, when recorded, and the record of such written act, or a duly certified
copy from such record, shall be evidence, in all cases, of the facts contained
therein.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5536; Code 1950, § 55-245; 2014, c. 330; 2019, c. 712.