8.01-683 - When Clerk of Supreme Court to transmit its decisions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-683. When Clerk of Supreme Court to transmit its decisions.

When any term of the Supreme Court is ended, or sooner if the court sodirect, the Clerk thereof shall certify and transmit its decision to theclerk of the court or tribunal below, as the case may be, except that itshall not be his duty to certify or transmit a copy of a judgment ofaffirmance unless the appellee shall have paid all fees due from him in thecase, or shall endorse on such copy so much of the judgment, for the benefitof the clerk, as the unpaid fees shall amount to. If any clerk fail to complywith this section for twenty days, except as aforesaid, he shall forfeitfifty dollars to any person aggrieved thereby.

(Code 1950, § 8-496; 1977, c. 617.)