{"law_id":"779861","section_number":"8.01-370","catch_line":"Claimant may give suspending bond; proceedings to have title settled; action on indemnifying or suspending bond","history":"Code 1950, \u00a7 8-232; 1977, c. 617.","order_by":null,"metadata":false,"court_decisions":{},"official_url":"http:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/8.01-370\/","refers_to":[{"id":"768549","section_number":"8.01-369","catch_line":"Effect of such bond","url":"\/8.01-369\/"}],"url":"\/8.01-370\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-370","structure":{"1":{"id":"2309","name":"Claims Of Third Parties To Property Distrained Or Levied On","identifier":"2","label":"article","url":"\/8.01\/12\/2\/"},"2":{"id":"2308","name":"Interpleader; Claims Of Third Parties To Property Distrained Or Levied On, Etc","identifier":"12","label":"chapter","url":"\/8.01\/12\/"},"3":{"id":"52","name":"Civil Remedies And Procedure","identifier":"8.01","label":"title","url":"\/8.01\/"}},"referred_to_by":[{"id":"779861","section_number":"8.01-370","catch_line":"Claimant may give suspending bond; proceedings to have title settled; action on indemnifying or suspending bond","url":"\/8.01-370\/"}],"edition_id":"11","section_id":"779861","structure_id":"2309","full_text":"The sale of any property levied on under a fieri facias or distress warrant shall be suspended at the instance of any claimant thereof who will deliver to the officer a suspending bond, with good security, in a penalty equal to double the value thereof, payable to such officer, with condition to pay to all persons who may be injured by suspending the sale thereof, until the claim thereto is adjudicated or otherwise adjusted, such damage as they may sustain by such suspension. If the property claimed to be liable by virtue of such process is in the possession of any of the parties against whom such process was issued, but is claimed by any other person, or is claimed to belong to any other person, the officer having such process in his hands to be executed shall, whether an indemnifying bond has been given or not, after notice to the claimant, or his agent, proceed to execute the same notwithstanding such claim, unless the claimant of such property or someone for him shall give the suspending bond aforesaid, and shall within thirty days after such bond is given proceed to have the title to such property settled in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. And in case such claimant or someone for him fails to give a suspending bond, or having given such bond fails to have such proceedings instituted to settle the title thereto, the claimant shall be barred from asserting such claim to the property and the sale of the property shall proceed. For the purpose of this section, a person making a claim of ownership of property on behalf of another shall be deemed to be the latter’s agent, and the notice required by this section may be verbal or in writing. Upon any such indemnifying or suspending bond as is mentioned in this section or \u00a7 8.01-369 an action may be prosecuted in the name of the officer for the benefit of the claimant, creditor, purchaser, or other person injured, and such damages recovered in such action as a jury may assess. The action may be prosecuted and a writ of fieri facias had in the name of such officer when he is dead in like manner as if he were alive.","text":{"0":{"id":"2515354","text":"The sale of any property levied on under a fieri facias or distress warrant shall be suspended at the instance of any claimant thereof who will deliver to the officer a suspending bond, with good security, in a penalty equal to double the value thereof, payable to such officer, with condition to pay to all persons who may be injured by suspending the sale thereof, until the claim thereto is adjudicated or otherwise adjusted, such damage as they may sustain by such suspension. If the property claimed to be liable by virtue of such process is in the possession of any of the parties against whom such process was issued, but is claimed by any other person, or is claimed to belong to any other person, the officer having such process in his hands to be executed shall, whether an indemnifying bond has been given or not, after notice to the claimant, or his agent, proceed to execute the same notwithstanding such claim, unless the claimant of such property or someone for him shall give the suspending bond aforesaid, and shall within thirty days after such bond is given proceed to have the title to such property settled in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. And in case such claimant or someone for him fails to give a suspending bond, or having given such bond fails to have such proceedings instituted to settle the title thereto, the claimant shall be barred from asserting such claim to the property and the sale of the property shall proceed. For the purpose of this section, a person making a claim of ownership of property on behalf of another shall be deemed to be the latter’s agent, and the notice required by this section may be verbal or in writing. Upon any such indemnifying or suspending bond as is mentioned in this section or \u00a7 8.01-369 an action may be prosecuted in the name of the officer for the benefit of the claimant, creditor, purchaser, or other person injured, and such damages recovered in such action as a jury may assess. The action may be prosecuted and a writ of fieri facias had in the name of such officer when he is dead in like manner as if he were alive.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":{"1":{"id":"2309","name":"Claims Of Third Parties To Property Distrained Or Levied On","identifier":"2","label":"article","url":"\/8.01\/12\/2\/"},"2":{"id":"2308","name":"Interpleader; Claims Of Third Parties To Property Distrained Or Levied On, Etc","identifier":"12","label":"chapter","url":"\/8.01\/12\/"},"3":{"id":"52","name":"Civil Remedies And Procedure","identifier":"8.01","label":"title","url":"\/8.01\/"}},"structure_contents":{"0":{"id":"774582","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-365","catch_line":"How claim of third party tried","url":"\/8.01-365\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-365"},"1":{"id":"780073","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-366","catch_line":"Sale of property when no forthcoming bond is given","url":"\/8.01-366\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-366"},"2":{"id":"779637","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-367","catch_line":"Indemnifying bond to officer","url":"\/8.01-367\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-367"},"3":{"id":"784724","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-368","catch_line":"Return of such bond to clerk's office","url":"\/8.01-368\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-368"},"4":{"id":"768549","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-369","catch_line":"Effect of such bond","url":"\/8.01-369\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-369"},"5":{"id":"779861","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-370","catch_line":"Claimant may give suspending bond; proceedings to have title settled; action on indemnifying or suspending bond","url":"\/8.01-370\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-370"},"6":{"id":"775228","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-371","catch_line":"How forthcoming bond taken of claimant of property the sale whereof has been suspended","url":"\/8.01-371\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-371"},"7":{"id":"779064","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-372","catch_line":"Sale despite bond when property perishable, etc","url":"\/8.01-372\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-372"},"8":{"id":"773717","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-373","catch_line":"When property sells for more than claim, how surplus paid","url":"\/8.01-373\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-373"}},"previous_section":{"id":"768549","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-369","catch_line":"Effect of such bond","url":"\/8.01-369\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-369"},"next_section":{"id":"775228","structure_id":"2309","section_number":"8.01-371","catch_line":"How forthcoming bond taken of claimant of property the sale whereof has been suspended","url":"\/8.01-371\/","token":"8.01\/12\/2\/8.01-371"},"references":[{"id":"779637","section_number":"8.01-367","catch_line":"Indemnifying bond to officer","url":"\/8.01-367\/"}],"formats":{"txt":"\/8.01-370.txt","json":"\/8.01-370.json","xml":"\/8.01-370.xml"},"dublin_core":{"Title":"Claimant may give suspending bond; proceedings to have title settled; action on indemnifying or suspending bond","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.01-370","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCLAIMANT MAY GIVE SUSPENDING BOND; PROCEEDINGS TO HAVE TITLE SETTLED; ACTION ON\nINDEMNIFYING OR SUSPENDING BOND (\u00a7 8.01-370)\n\nThe sale of any property levied on under a fieri facias or distress warrant\nshall be suspended at the instance of any claimant thereof who will deliver to\nthe officer a suspending bond, with good security, in a penalty equal to double\nthe value thereof, payable to such officer, with condition to pay to all persons\nwho may be injured by suspending the sale thereof, until the claim thereto is\nadjudicated or otherwise adjusted, such damage as they may sustain by such\nsuspension. If the property claimed to be liable by virtue of such process is in\nthe possession of any of the parties against whom such process was issued, but\nis claimed by any other person, or is claimed to belong to any other person, the\nofficer having such process in his hands to be executed shall, whether an\nindemnifying bond has been given or not, after notice to the claimant, or his\nagent, proceed to execute the same notwithstanding such claim, unless the\nclaimant of such property or someone for him shall give the suspending bond\naforesaid, and shall within thirty days after such bond is given proceed to have\nthe title to such property settled in accordance with the provisions of this\nchapter. And in case such claimant or someone for him fails to give a suspending\nbond, or having given such bond fails to have such proceedings instituted to\nsettle the title thereto, the claimant shall be barred from asserting such claim\nto the property and the sale of the property shall proceed. For the purpose of\nthis section, a person making a claim of ownership of property on behalf of\nanother shall be deemed to be the latter’s agent, and the notice required\nby this section may be verbal or in writing. Upon any such indemnifying or\nsuspending bond as is mentioned in this section or \u00a7 8.01-369 an action may be\nprosecuted in the name of the officer for the benefit of the claimant, creditor,\npurchaser, or other person injured, and such damages recovered in such action as\na jury may assess. The action may be prosecuted and a writ of fieri facias had\nin the name of such officer when he is dead in like manner as if he were alive.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 8-232; 1977, c. 617."}