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1996 SESSION


CHAPTER 427
An Act to amend and reenact § 8.01-449 of the Code of Virginia, relating to how judgments are docketed.
[H 909]
Approved March 31, 1996

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8.01-449 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8.01-449. How judgments are docketed; executions issued thereon.

In the judgment docket there shall be stated in separate columns (i) the date and amount of the judgment, (ii) the time from which it bears interest, (iii) the costs, the full names of all the parties thereto, including the address, date of birth and social security number, if known, of each party against whom judgment is rendered, (iv) the alternative value of any specific property recovered by it, (v) the date and the time of docketing it, (vi) the amount and date of any credits thereon, (vii) the court by which it was rendered and the case number, and (viii) when paid off or discharged in whole or in part, the time of payment or discharge and by whom made when there is more than one defendant. And in case of a judgment or decree by confession, the clerk shall also enter in such docket the time of day at which the same was confessed, or at which the same was received in his office to be entered of record. There shall also be shown on such book the name of the plaintiff's attorney, if any.

Error or omission in the entry of the address or addresses or the social security number or numbers of each party against whom judgment is rendered shall in no way affect the validity, finality or priority of the judgment docketed. The clerk may maintain the docket on computer, word processor, microfilm, microfiche, or other micrographic process.

2. That the provisions of this act shall apply to judgments docketed on or after July 1, 1996.