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Issue and Form; Motion to Quash

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This is Article 1 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Issue and Form; Motion to Quash.” It is part of Chapter 18 “Executions and Other Means of Recovery”, which is part of Title 8.01 “Civil Remedies and Procedure”.

It’s comprised of the following 13 sections.

§ 8.01-466 Clerk to issue fieri facias on judgment for money
§ 8.01-467 What writs may not issue
§ 8.01-468 Executions against corporations
§ 8.01-469 Executions on joint judgments
§ 8.01-470 Writs on judgments for specific property
§ 8.01-471 Time period for issuing writs of eviction in unlawful entry and detainer; when returnable
§ 8.01-472 Writs on judgments for personal property
§ 8.01-473 Judgment for benefit of other person than plaintiff; remedies of such person
§ 8.01-474 What writ of fieri facias to command
§ 8.01-475 Subsequent executions
§ 8.01-476 New execution after loss of property sold under indemnifying bond
§ 8.01-477 When executions may be quashed; how proceedings thereon stayed
§ 8.01-477.1 Claims of exemption from execution

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