8.01-209 - Bond for purchase money to have force of judgment. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-209. Bond for purchase money to have force of judgment.

When any bond taken under § 8.01-206 becomes payable and is returned to theoffice of the court from which the execution issued, it shall have the forceof a judgment against such of the obligors therein as may be then alive.Execution may be issued thereon against them. And the same shall be proceededunder in like manner as an execution issued on such a judgment or decree asis mentioned in § 8.01-201, save only that the clerk shall endorse "nosecurity is to be taken," and the officer shall govern himself accordinglyand sell for ready money any real estate which he may levy on under the same.

(Code 1950, § 8-772; 1977, c. 617.)