                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ATTACHMENT OF GOODS COVERED BY A NEGOTIABLE DOCUMENT (§ 8.7-602)

Except where the document was originally issued upon delivery of the goods by a
person who had no power to dispose of them, no lien attaches by virtue of any
judicial process to goods in the possession of a bailee for which a negotiable
document is outstanding unless possession or control of the document is first
surrendered to the bailee or its negotiation is enjoined. The bailee shall not
be compelled to deliver the goods pursuant to process until possession or
control of the document is surrendered to him or the court. One who purchases
the document for value without notice of the process or injunction takes free of
the lien imposed by judicial process.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 61-28; 1964, c. 219; 2004, c. 200.