                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MARKING SATISFIED JUDGMENTS FOR COMMONWEALTH; PAYMENT BY THIRD PARTIES RELEASING
RECOGNIZANCES (§ 8.01-457)

It shall be the duty of the clerks of the circuit courts of this Commonwealth,
upon the payment of any judgment in favor of the Commonwealth by any person or
upon the release of any recognizance by court order, to mark the same satisfied
upon the judgment lien docket at every place such judgment or recognizance, as
the case may be, shall have been recorded upon such lien docket. In marking such
recognizance satisfied it shall be the duty of such clerk to refer by marginal
reference to the court order, if any, releasing or discharging such
recognizance.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-385; 1977, c. 617; 1986, c. 132.