55-245 - Written act of reentry to be returned and recorded, and certificate thereof published. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-245. Written act of reentry to be returned and recorded, and certificatethereof published.

When actual reentry is made, the party by or for whom the same is made shallreturn a written act of reentry, sworn to by the sheriff or other officeracting therein, to the clerk of the circuit court of the county orcorporation court of the city wherein the lands or tenements are, who shallrecord the same in the deed book, and shall deliver to the party making thereentry a certificate setting forth the substance of such written act, andthat the same had been left in his office to be recorded. Such certificateshall be published at least once a week for two months successively, in somenewspaper published in or nearest to such county or corporation. Suchpublication shall be proved by affidavit to the satisfaction of the clerk,who shall note the fact in the margin of the record book against the recordof the act of reentry, in the words "Publication made and proved accordingto law. A.B., Clerk"; and shall return the original act of reentry to theparty entitled thereto. The written act of reentry, when recorded, and therecord thereof, or a duly certified copy from such record, shall be evidence,in all cases, of the facts therein set forth.

(Code 1919, § 5536.)