                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECORDATION OF JUDGMENTS AFFECTING TITLE TO LAND (§ 55.1-649)

The clerk of the court of any county or city in which there is any partition of
land under any order, or any recovery of land under judgment, shall transmit to
the clerk of the court of each county or city in whose office deeds to such land
or any part thereof are recorded a copy of such order or judgment, and of such
partition or assignment, and of the order confirming the same, along with such
description of the land as may appear in the papers of the cause. The clerk of
the court of such county or city shall record the same in his deed book and
index it in the name of the person who had the land before and also in the name
of the person who became entitled under such partition, assignment, or recovery.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5216; 1924, p. 454; 1946, p. 190; Code 1950, § 55-138;
1990, c. 831; 2019, c. 712.