                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCEDURE FOR TRIAL ON WARRANT IN DISTRESS (§ 8.01-130.5)

The distress warrant shall contain a return date and be tried in the same manner
as an action on a warrant as prescribed in § 16.1-79, except that the case
shall be returnable not more than 30 days from its date of issuance. The trial
or hearing of the issues, except as otherwise provided, shall be the same, as
near as may be, as in actions in personam.

HISTORY: 1980, c. 555, § 55-230.1; 1993, c. 841; 2019, c. 712.