8.01-575 - Rehearing permitted when judgment rendered on publication. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-575. Rehearing permitted when judgment rendered on publication.

If a defendant, against whom, on publication, judgment is rendered under anyattachment, or his personal representative, shall return to or appear openlyin this Commonwealth, he may, within one year after a copy of such judgmentshall be served on him at the instance of the plaintiff, or within two yearsfrom the date of the judgment, if he be not so served, petition to have theproceedings reheard. On giving security for costs he shall be admitted tomake defense against such judgment, as if he had appeared in the case beforethe same was rendered, except that the title of any bona fide purchaser toany property, real or personal, sold under such attachment, shall not bebrought in question or impeached. But this section shall not apply to anycase in which the petitioner, or his decedent, was served with a copy of theattachment more than ten days before the date of the judgment, or to any casein which he appeared and made defense.

(Code 1950, § 8-562; 1977, c. 617.)