8.01-529 - When bond returned, how endorsed and recorded by clerk; lien. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-529. When bond returned, how endorsed and recorded by clerk; lien.

Upon the return of a forthcoming bond to the clerk's office in the mannerprescribed by § 8.01-527, it shall be the duty of the clerk to endorsethereon the date of such return, and his fee as provided by law forrecordation of items specified herein, and to record in a book to be kept byhim for the purpose, the date of such bond and of the return endorsedthereon, the amount of the penalty thereof, the amount, the payment whereofwill discharge such penalty, and the names of the obligee and obligor to suchbond. Such bond, when so returned to the clerk's office aforesaid, shallconstitute a lien on the real estate of the obligor.

(Code 1950, § 8-458; 1977, c. 617.)