8.01-123 - Recovery of damages sustained for property withheld during appeal. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-123. Recovery of damages sustained for property withheld during appeal.

When a judgment for specific personal property is affirmed by an appellatecourt, or an injunction to such judgment is dissolved, the person who isentitled to execution of such judgment, or who would be entitled if executionhad not been had, may, on motion to the court from which such execution hasissued, or might issue, after fifteen days' notice to the defendant or hispersonal representative, have a jury impaneled to ascertain the damagessustained by reason of the detention of such property, subsequent to suchjudgment, or if it was on a verdict, subsequent to such verdict; and judgmentshall be rendered for the damages, if any, so ascertained.

(Code 1950, § 8-595; 1977, c. 617.)