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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>377717</law_id><section_number>8.01-633</section_number><catch_line>Damages on dissolution</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="53" identifier="24">Injunctions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When an <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> to <span class="dictionary">stay</span> proceedings on a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> for money is dissolved wholly or in part there shall be paid to the <span class="dictionary">party</span> having such <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> <span class="dictionary">damages</span> at the rate of ten per centum per annum from the time the <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> took effect until the dissolution, on such sum as appears to be due, including the costs; but the <span class="dictionary">court</span> wherein the <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> is may direct that no such <span class="dictionary">damages</span> be paid, or that there be paid only such portion thereof as it may deem just. In a case wherein a forthcoming <span class="dictionary">bond</span> was forfeited, and no execution was had thereon before the <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> took effect, a <span class="dictionary">court</span> awarding such execution shall include in its <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> <span class="dictionary">damages</span> as aforesaid. In other cases <span class="dictionary">damages</span> may be included in the execution on the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> to which the <span class="dictionary">injunction</span> was awarded.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-625; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
