CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN AND HOW PAYMENT OR DISCHARGE ENTERED ON JUDGMENT DOCKET (§ 8.01-453)

The fact of satisfaction of any judgment so docketed, and if there is more than
one defendant, by which defendant it was satisfied, shall be entered by the
clerk in whose office the judgment is docketed whenever it appears from a
certificate of the clerk of the court in which the judgment was rendered that
the judgment has been satisfied or upon the direction, in writing, of the
judgment creditor or his duly authorized attorney or other agent. However, the
judgment creditor may record an instrument, upon payment of the fees for
recordation of each instrument pursuant to § 17.1-275, releasing the lien of
any judgment so docketed as against one or more parcels of real property, even
when full satisfaction of the judgment has not been made and entered by the
clerk.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-380; 1977, c. 617; 1979, c. 192; 1986, c. 276; 1988, c.
420; 2015, c. 631; 2016, c. 482.