8.01-492 - Sale of property. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-492. Sale of property.

In any case of goods and chattels which an officer shall distrain or levy on,otherwise than under an attachment, or which he may be directed to sell by anorder of a court, unless such order prescribe a different course, the officershall fix upon a time and place for the sale thereof and post notice of thesame at least ten days before the day of sale at some place near theresidence of the owner if he reside in the county or city and at two or morepublic places in the officer's county or city. If the goods and chattels beexpensive to keep or perishable, the court from whose clerk's office the writof fieri facias or the distress warrant was issued under which the seizure ismade, or if the distress warrant was issued by a clerk, the court of which heis a clerk, may order a sale of the property seized under fieri facias ordistress warrant to be made upon such notice less than ten days as to suchcourt may seem proper. At the time and place so appointed, such officer shallsell to the highest bidder, for cash, such goods and chattels, or so muchthereof as may be necessary.

(Code 1950, § 8-422.1; 1962, c. 10; 1977, c. 617.)