16.1-119 - Proceedings to try title to property levied on under distress or execution. - Virginia Statutes

§ 16.1-119. Proceedings to try title to property levied on under distress orexecution.

When an execution on a judgment of a general district court, or a warrant ofdistress, is levied on property, or when a lien is acquired on money or otherpersonal estate by virtue of § 8.01-501 and some person other than the partyagainst whom the process issued claims such property, money or other personalestate, or some part thereof, either the claimant, the officer having suchprocess, or the party who had the same issued may apply to the generaldistrict court of the county or city wherein the property, money or otherpersonal estate may be to try the claim of the party so claiming the same orsome part thereof, provided that the property, money or other personal estatedoes not exceed the maximum jurisdictional limit of the court as provided in§ 16.1-77 (1).

(1956, c. 555; 1978, c. 42; 1986, c. 27.)