                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECOVERY OF DAMAGES SUSTAINED FOR PROPERTY WITHHELD DURING APPEAL (§ 8.01-123)

When a judgment for specific personal property is affirmed by an appellate
court, or an injunction to such judgment is dissolved, the person who is
entitled to execution of such judgment, or who would be entitled if execution
had not been had, may, on motion to the court from which such execution has
issued, or might issue, after fifteen days&#8217; notice to the defendant or his
personal representative, have a jury impaneled to ascertain the damages
sustained by reason of the detention of such property, subsequent to such
judgment, or if it was on a verdict, subsequent to such verdict; and judgment
shall be rendered for the damages, if any, so ascertained.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-595; 1977, c. 617.