43-23 - Priority among liens perfected under this chapter. - Virginia Statutes

§ 43-23. Priority among liens perfected under this chapter.

There shall be no priority among the liens created and perfected under thischapter, except that the lien of a subcontractor shall be preferred to thatof his general contractor; the lien of persons performing labor or furnishingmaterials for a subcontractor, shall be preferred to that of suchsubcontractor; and liens filed by persons performing manual labor shall havepriority over materialmen to the extent of the labor performed during thethirty days immediately preceding the date of the performance of the lastlabor.

(Code 1919, § 6437; 1920, p. 485.)