16.1-94 - Judgment to be noted on papers; formal orders may be entered. - Virginia Statutes

§ 16.1-94. Judgment to be noted on papers; formal orders may be entered.

Whenever a judgment is rendered in a court not of record the judgment shallbe entered on the warrant, motion for judgment, counterclaim, cross-claim orother pleading and signed by the judge, or the signature of the judge may beaffixed by a facsimile stamp, in which event the judge shall initial anotation of the judgment made on the warrant or other paper. If the action ison a note, bond or other written obligation, the date and amount of thejudgment rendered shall be noted thereon, to which notation the judge orclerk shall affix his name or his initials. Nothing in this section shall beconstrued to prevent the judge from entering a formal order in any case inwhich he deems such order to be appropriate, including but not limited tosettlement and installment orders endorsed by counsel, or to affect thevalidity of any formal order so entered. If such action is on a lease for therecovery of rent or possession of property this section shall not operate torequire marking of such lease unless the judge deems such marking necessary.

(1956, c. 555; 1962, c. 361; 2004, c. 341.)