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Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-130.11 When officer may enter by force to levy distress or attachment
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The officer having such distress warrant, or an attachment for rent, if there be need for it, may, in the daytime, break open and enter into any house or close in which there may be goods liable to the distress or attachment and may, either in the day or night, break open and ent…
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-130.12 When distress not unlawful because of irregularity, etc
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When distress is made for rent justly due and any irregularity or unlawful act is afterwards done by the party distraining, or his agent, the distress itself shall not be deemed to be unlawful, nor is the party making it therefore deemed a trespasser ab initio. The party aggrieve…
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-130.13 Return of execution; process of sale thereunder
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The sheriff under writ of execution from the court after hearing and judgment for the landlord, except as otherwise provided by law, shall make return on his execution as may be placed in his hands for collection and file the same, within 90 days after the same may have come to h…
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-130.2 Who may recover rent or compensation
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If a person is entitled to rent or compensation, whether such person has the reversion or not, then his personal representative or assignee may recover it as provided in § 8.01-130.1, whatever the estate of the person owning it, or though his estate or interest in the land has en…