CODE OF VIRGINIA

IMPOUNDING ANIMALS (§ 55-308)

Whenever any such animal is found trespassing upon any such enclosed ground, the
owner or tenant of such enclosed grounds shall have the right to take up such
animal and impound the same until the damages provided for by the preceding
sections shall have been paid, or until the same are taken under execution by
the officer as hereinbefore provided, and the costs of taking up and impounding
such animal shall be estimated as a part of the actual damage.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-878; 1977, c. 624.