                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REHEARING PERMITTED WHEN JUDGMENT RENDERED ON PUBLICATION (§ 8.01-575)

If a defendant, against whom, on publication, judgment is rendered under any
attachment, or his personal representative, shall return to or appear openly in
this Commonwealth, he may, within one year after a copy of such judgment shall
be served on him at the instance of the plaintiff, or within two years from the
date of the judgment, if he be not so served, petition to have the proceedings
reheard. On giving security for costs he shall be admitted to make defense
against such judgment, as if he had appeared in the case before the same was
rendered, except that the title of any bona fide purchaser to any property, real
or personal, sold under such attachment, shall not be brought in question or
impeached. But this section shall not apply to any case in which the petitioner,
or his decedent, was served with a copy of the attachment more than ten days
before the date of the judgment, or to any case in which he appeared and made
defense.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-562; 1977, c. 617.