8.01-426 - Judgment" includes decree. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-426. "Judgment" includes decree.

A decree for land or specific personal property, and a decree or orderrequiring the payment of money, shall have the effect of a judgment for suchland, property, or money, and be embraced by the word "judgment," whereused in this chapter or in Chapters 18, 19 or 20 of this title or in Title43; but a party may proceed to carry into execution a decree or order otherthan for the payment of money, as he might have done if this and thefollowing section had not been enacted.

(Code 1950, § 8-343; 1977, c. 617; 2005, c. 681.)