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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>377374</law_id><section_number>8.01-446</section_number><catch_line>Clerks to keep judgment dockets; what judgments to be docketed therein</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-908</reference><reference>17.1-275.5</reference><reference>17.1-292</reference><reference>19.2-305.2</reference><reference>8.01-449</reference><reference>8.01-455</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="12" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="33" identifier="17">Judgments and Decrees Generally</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="5" identifier="5">Keeping of Docket Books; Execution Thereon; Disposal of Exhibits</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The clerk of each <span class="dictionary">court</span> of every <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> shall keep in his office, in a well-bound book, or by microphotographic or electronic process allowed by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Recording by microphotographic or electronic process" href="/17.1-240/">17.1-240</a>, a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> <span class="dictionary">docket</span>, in which he shall <span class="dictionary">docket</span>, without delay, any <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for a specific amount of money rendered in his <span class="dictionary">court</span>, and shall likewise <span class="dictionary">docket</span> without delay any <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for a specific amount of money rendered in this Commonwealth by any other <span class="dictionary">court</span> of this Commonwealth or federal <span class="dictionary">court</span>, when he shall be required so to do by any <span class="dictionary">person</span> interested, on such <span class="dictionary">person</span> delivering to him an authenticated legible abstract of it and also upon the request of any <span class="dictionary">person</span> interested therein, any such <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> rendered by a district <span class="dictionary">court</span> <span class="dictionary">judge</span> whose book has been filed in his office under the provisions of Title 16.1 or of which a legible abstract is delivered to him certified by the district <span class="dictionary">court</span> <span class="dictionary">judge</span> who rendered it; provided, that <span class="dictionary">judgments</span> docketed in the clerk&#x2019;s office of the <span class="dictionary">Circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of the City of Williamsburg and the County of James City shall be docketed and indexed in one book. A specific <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for money shall state that it is a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for money in a specific amount in favor of a named <span class="dictionary">party</span>, against a named <span class="dictionary">party</span>, with that <span class="dictionary">party</span>&#x2019;s address, if known, and it shall further state the time from which the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> bears interest. An <span class="dictionary">order</span> of <span class="dictionary">restitution</span> docketed pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Amount of restitution; enforcement" href="/19.2-305.2/">19.2-305.2</a> shall have the same force and effect as a specific <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for money and shall state that it is an <span class="dictionary">order</span> of <span class="dictionary">restitution</span> in a specific amount in favor of a named <span class="dictionary">party</span>, against a named <span class="dictionary">party</span>, with that <span class="dictionary">party</span>&#x2019;s address, if known, and it shall further state the time from which the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> bears interest. If the clerk determines that an abstract is not legible, the clerk shall refuse to record it and shall return it to the <span class="dictionary">person</span> who tendered the abstract for recording. No <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for assessments described in subsection A of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Amounts to be added; judgment in favor of the Commonwealth" href="/17.1-275.5/">17.1-275.5</a> or for the fees provided for by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Fixed felony fee" href="/17.1-275.1/">17.1-275.1</a>, <a class="law" title="Fixed fee for felony reduced to misdemeanor" href="/17.1-275.2/">17.1-275.2</a>, <a class="law" title="Fixed felony revocation fee" href="/17.1-275.3/">17.1-275.3</a>, <a class="law" title="Fixed misdemeanor reduced from felony revocation fee" href="/17.1-275.4/">17.1-275.4</a>, <a class="law" title="Fixed misdemeanor fee" href="/17.1-275.7/">17.1-275.7</a>, <a class="law" title="Fixed drug misdemeanor fee" href="/17.1-275.8/">17.1-275.8</a>, <a class="law" title="Fixed misdemeanor revocation fee" href="/17.1-275.9/">17.1-275.9</a>, <a class="law" title="Additional fee" href="/17.1-275.10/">17.1-275.10</a>, <a class="law" title="Additional fee assessed for conviction of certain offenses" href="/17.1-275.11/">17.1-275.11</a>, <a class="law" title="Additional fee assessed for conviction requiring computer analysis" href="/17.1-275.11_1/">17.1-275.11:1</a>, or <a class="law" title="Additional fee for Internet Crimes Against Children Fund" href="/17.1-275.12/">17.1-275.12</a> or for all other fines and costs shall be recorded as a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> in favor of the Commonwealth if such fees, assessments, fines, or costs have been fully paid by the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> by the date of sentencing by the <span class="dictionary">court</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-373; 1952, c. 438; 1962, c. 568; 1973, c. 544; 1975, cc. 182, 575; 1977, c. 617; 1993, c. 412; 1994, c. 538; 1995, c. 434; 1997, c. 579; 2008, cc. 823, 833; 2013, c. 263; 2015, c. 641.</history><metadata><court_decisions><item key="0"><name>Commonwealth v. Puckett</name><case_number>1220596</case_number><citation></citation><date>2023-11-22</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/9443890/commonwealth-v-puckett/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. PRESENT: Goodwyn, C.J., Powell, Kelsey, McCullough, Chafin, and Mann, JJ., and Millette, .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html><abbr title="Supreme Court of Virginia">SCV</abbr></court_html></item><item key="1"><name>Johnson v. Cadles of Grassy Meadows, II, LLC (In Re Johnson)</name><case_number>10-12535</case_number><citation>466 B.R. 67</citation><date>2012-02-10</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2203330/johnson-v-cadles-of-grassy-meadows-ii-llc-in-re-johnson/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. 466 B.R. 67 (2012) .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html>United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Virginia</court_html></item><item key="2"><name>Tammy Mae Frazier v. Commonwealth</name><case_number>0418932</case_number><citation>20 Va. App. 719</citation><date>1995-08-29</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1068279/tammy-mae-frazier-v-commonwealth/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. BRAY, Judge. .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html><abbr title="Court of Appeals">COA</abbr></court_html></item><item key="3"><name>Jenkins v. Mehra</name><case_number>092272</case_number><citation>704 S.E.2d 577</citation><date>2011-01-13</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1058099/jenkins-v-mehra/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. 704 S.E.2d 577 (2011) .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html><abbr title="Supreme Court of Virginia">SCV</abbr></court_html></item><item key="4"><name>In Re Clark</name><case_number>19-70122</case_number><citation>217 B.R. 177</citation><date>1998-01-08</date><url>https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1884874/in-re-clark/</url><abstract> .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. 217 B.R. 177 (1998) .&#x202F;.&#x202F;. </abstract><court_html>United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Virginia</court_html></item></court_decisions></metadata></law>
