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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>376917</law_id><section_number>8.01-211</section_number><catch_line>When venditioni exponas issued to sheriff of adjacent county; what to contain</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>When return is made on any execution on behalf of the Commonwealth that goods, chattels or real estate remain unsold for want of bidders, or to that effect, the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> from which such execution issued shall, when required by the Comptroller, <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a <span class="dictionary">writ</span> of venditioni exponas, directed to the <span class="dictionary">sheriff</span> of any county adjacent to that in which the <span class="dictionary">levy</span> was made that the Comptroller may designate. Such <span class="dictionary">writ</span> shall recite the execution under which the <span class="dictionary">levy</span> was made, the nature of such <span class="dictionary">levy</span> and return that the property remains unsold for the want of bidders and shall command the <span class="dictionary">sheriff</span> of such adjacent county, if the property remaining unsold be goods or chattels, to go into the county in which the <span class="dictionary">levy</span> was made and receive the same from the officer that made the <span class="dictionary">levy</span> and, whether the property be goods, chattels, or real estate, to sell the same.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-774; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
