CODE OF VIRGINIA

EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS PLACED ON EQUAL FOOTING (§ 55-60.1)

When bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness are secured by a deed of
trust, mortgage, vendor’s lien or other lien, such bonds, notes or other
evidences of indebtedness shall, in the event the lien is executed or
foreclosed, be secured on an equal footing and shall be paid ratably out of the
proceeds of any sale of property subjected to the lien and shall have no
priority, the one over the other, whether by priority of assignment or
otherwise, unless the instrument creating the lien expressly provides otherwise.

HISTORY: 1934, p. 516; Michie Code 1942, § 6457a.