CODE OF VIRGINIA

DECREES AND ORDERS IN BANKRUPTCY (§ 55-141)

Certified copies of orders or decrees of adjudication of bankruptcy, made
pursuant to the acts of Congress relating to bankruptcy, certified copies of
orders of sale, orders confirming sales, and such other orders entered in
bankruptcy proceedings as any party in interest may wish to have recorded in the
appropriate clerk’s office, or such orders as the referee or the judge
having jurisdiction directs to be recorded, may be filed with the clerk of the
court authorized to record deeds for the county or city wherein any real estate
owned by the bankrupt is situated. Such decrees shall be recorded in the deed
books and indexed in the name of the bankrupt. For each such recordation the
clerk shall be paid a fee as prescribed in subdivision A 2 of § 17.1-275.

HISTORY: 1934, p. 839; Michie Code 1942, § 5216c; 1964, c. 337; 1994, c. 432.