8.01-527 - If bond forfeited, where returned; its effect; clerk to endorse time of return. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-527. If bond forfeited, where returned; its effect; clerk to endorsetime of return.

If the condition of such forthcoming bond be not performed, the officer,unless payment be made of the amount due on the execution or warrant,including his fee, commission, and charges as aforesaid, shall, after thebond is forfeited, return it forthwith, with the execution or warrant, tosuch court, or the clerk's office of such court as is prescribed by §15.1-80. The clerk shall endorse on the bond the date of its return; andagainst such of the obligors therein as may be alive when it is forfeited andso returned, it shall have the force of a judgment. But no execution shallissue thereon under this section.

(Code 1950, § 8-451; 1977, c. 617.)