Bonds Taken by Courts and Officers

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This is Chapter 2 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Bonds Taken by Courts and Officers.” It is part of Title 49 “Oaths, Affirmations and Bonds”. It contains 11 laws.

It’s comprised of the following 11 sections.

§ 49-12	Provisions and conditions; acknowledgment and recordation; duty of clerk when taken in pending cause
§ 49-13	How new or additional bonds required and given; failure to give
§ 49-14	Effect of giving new or additional bond
§ 49-15	Surety companies may be accepted as sureties on bonds; rights and liabilities
§ 49-16	Allowance of expense of procuring corporate surety
§ 49-17	Surety company estopped to deny power to execute instrument or assume liability
§ 49-18	Agent or attorney of surety company signing without seal
§ 49-18.1	Seal not required
§ 49-19	Remedy on bonds
§ 49-20	How bonds given in civil suits made payable
§ 49-21	Failure to give bond