                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECORDATION OF CERTIFICATE OF SATISFACTION, ETC., REQUIRED WHEN RELEASE OF LIEN
RECORDED (§ 55.1-345)

Whenever a release of a deed of trust or other obligation is recorded in the
office of the clerk of any circuit court, such clerk shall record a certificate
of satisfaction or certificate of partial satisfaction, stating that such deed
or other obligation is released. The fee charged by the clerk for recording such
release shall be paid by the lien debtor. Such certificate shall be indexed in
the name of the grantors and grantees of the instrument being released. If any
clerk fails for 10 days to do anything required of him by this section, he shall
be liable for any damage that any person may sustain by reason of such failure.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 3402; Code 1950, § 55-66.6; 1975, c. 469; 1979, c. 648;
1991, c. 414; 1993, c. 39; 2010, c. 352; 2019, c. 712.