                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COURT, ON MOTION OF DEFENDANT, ETC., MAY HAVE PAYMENT OF JUDGMENT ENTERED (§
8.01-455)

A. A defendant in any judgment, his heirs or personal representatives, may, on
motion, after ten days&#8217; notice thereof to the plaintiff in such judgment,
or his assignee, or if he be dead, to his personal representative, or if he be a
nonresident, to his attorney, if he have one, apply to the court in which the
judgment was rendered, to have the same marked satisfied, and upon proof that
the judgment has been paid off or discharged, such court shall order such
satisfaction to be recorded in the judgment docket book together with a separate
instrument or order discharging the judgment and referencing the judgment docket
book and page where the original judgment was entered, and a certificate of such
order to be made to the clerk of the court in which such judgment is required by
&#xA7; 8.01-446 to be docketed, and the clerk of such court shall immediately,
upon the receipt of such certificate, enter the same in the judgment docket book
where such judgment is docketed. If the plaintiff be a nonresident and have no
attorney of record residing in this Commonwealth, the notice may be published
and posted as an order of publication is required to be published and posted
under &#xA7;&#xA7; 8.01-316 and 8.01-317. Upon a like motion and similar
proceeding, the court may order that a separate instrument or order be recorded
to reflect that a judgment has been &#8220;discharged in bankruptcy&#8221; for
any judgment that may be shown to have been so discharged.

B. The cost of such proceedings, including reasonable attorney fees, may be
ordered to be paid by the plaintiff.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-383; 1977, c. 617; 2014, c. 330.