                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCEDURE WHEN OFFICER TAKING PROPERTY UNDER EXECUTION DIES BEFORE SALE (§
8.01-486)

If an officer taking property under execution die before the sale thereof, and
there be no deputies of such officer acting in the case, upon a suggestion of
the fact a writ of venditioni exponas may be directed to the sheriff or other
officer of the county or city wherein the property was taken. Whereupon the
officer to whom the writ is directed shall take possession of the property
previously levied upon, whether the same be in possession of the representatives
of the deceased officer or the execution debtor, and proceed to advertise and
sell it and account for the proceeds thereof in like manner as if the levy had
been made by himself.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-419; 1977, c. 617.