                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHAT ATTACHMENT TO COMMAND; SUMMONS (§ 8.01-546)

Every attachment sued out against specific personal property shall command the
sheriff or other officer to whom it may be directed to attach the specific
property claimed in the petition, and so much more of the real and personal
property of the principal defendant as shall be necessary to cover the damages
for the detention of the specific property sued for and the costs of the
attachment. Every other attachment shall command the sheriff or other officer to
whom it may be directed to attach the property mentioned and sought to be
attached in the petition, if any, and so much of the lands, tenements, goods,
chattels, moneys and effects of the principal defendant not exempt from
execution as will be sufficient to satisfy the plaintiff&#8217;s demand, and, in
case of tangible personal property, taken possession of under § 8.01-551, to
keep the same safely in his possession to satisfy any judgment that may be
recovered by the plaintiff in such attachment.
		Every attachment sued out under this section shall also command the sheriff or
other officer to summon the defendant or defendants, if he or they are found
within his county or city, or any county or city wherein he may have seized
property under and by virtue of such writ, to appear and answer the petition for
the attachment.
		Each copy of the summons shall be issued together with a form for requesting a
hearing on a claim of exemption from levy or seizure as provided in §
8.01-546.1. Both documents shall be served on each defendant.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-533; 1977, c. 617; 1986, c. 341.