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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>376912</law_id><section_number>8.01-207</section_number><catch_line>Who to collect purchase money and make deed; disposition of proceeds of sale</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="12" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="5" identifier="3">Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="21" identifier="19">Actions by the Commonwealth</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>On or before the maturity of such <span class="dictionary">bond</span> the <span class="dictionary">sheriff</span> or other officer who made the sale shall withdraw the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> from the clerk&#x2019;s office, leaving his receipt therefor and an attested copy thereof, and collect the same. So soon as the purchase money has been paid, the <span class="dictionary">sheriff</span> or other principal officer, or the deputy who acted in making the sale, shall, as commissioner, and in the name of the Commonwealth, convey the land to the purchaser by deed executed at his costs, reciting the execution, the sale and the price of the land. Such deed shall pass to the purchaser all the interest which the <span class="dictionary">party</span> against whom the execution issued had in the land at the date of the judgment or <span class="dictionary">decree</span>. Out of the money so collected the <span class="dictionary">sheriff</span> or officer who made the sale shall pay all costs attending such execution and sale, the costs of a survey, if there was one, all delinquent and unpaid taxes and levies on such land and the debt due the Commonwealth, and the residue, if any, he shall pay to the <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-770; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
