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Statutes > Virginia > Title-49 > Chapter-2 > 49-12§ 49-12. Provisions and conditions; acknowledgment and recordation; duty ofclerk when taken in pending cause.
Every bond required by law to be taken or approved by or given before anycourt, board or officer, unless otherwise provided, shall be made payable tothe Commonwealth of Virginia, with surety deemed sufficient by such court,board or officer. Every such bond required of any person appointed to orundertaking any office, post or trust, and every bond required to be taken ofany person by an order or decree of court, unless otherwise provided, shallbe with condition for the faithful discharge by him of the duties of hisoffice, post or trust. When such bond is required to be taken or approved byor before the Governor, a court or the clerk of a court, it shall be provedor acknowledged before the Governor or court or clerk, as the case may be,and recorded by the Secretary of the Commonwealth in the first case, or bythe clerk of the court in the other cases. When the bond is taken under anorder or decree in a pending cause a certified copy thereof shall be filed inthe cause by the clerk and charged as costs therein, and upon his failure tofile such copy, he shall be fined ten dollars. Every such bond shall contain,as to the respective obligors, such a waiver as is provided for in § 34-22.In any such bond the liability of the surety or sureties may be limited tosuch sum or sums as they may respectively require.
(Code 1919, § 279.)
