55-308 - Impounding animals. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-308. Impounding animals.

Whenever any such animal is found trespassing upon any such enclosed ground,the owner or tenant of such enclosed grounds shall have the right to take upsuch animal and impound the same until the damages provided for by thepreceding sections shall have been paid, or until the same are taken underexecution by the officer as hereinbefore provided, and the costs of taking upand impounding such animal shall be estimated as a part of the actual damage.

(Code 1950, § 8-878; 1977, c. 624.)