8.01-227 - Remedy by motion on certain bonds given or taken by officers; notice. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-227. Remedy by motion on certain bonds given or taken by officers;notice.

The court in which any bond given or taken by an officer is required to bereturned, filed or recorded, may, on motion of any person protected by suchbond, give judgment in favor of such person for such amount as he would beentitled by virtue of the bond to recover in an action at law. Any suchmotion shall be made after reasonable notice, not less than ten days, to theobligors on the bond. Service may be in any manner sufficient to support ajudgment in personam.

(Code 1950, §§ 8-140.1, 8-140.2; 1954, c. 546; 1977, c. 617.)