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Statutes > Virginia > Title-8-01 > Chapter-18 > 8-01-501§ 8.01-501. Lien of fieri facias on estate of debtor not capable of beinglevied on.
Every writ of fieri facias shall, in addition to the lien it has under §§8.01-478 and 8.01-479 on what is capable of being levied on under thosesections, be a lien from the time it is delivered to a sheriff or otherofficer, or any person authorized to serve process pursuant to § 8.01-293, tobe executed, on all the personal estate of or to which the judgment debtoris, or may afterwards and on or before the return day of such writ or beforethe return day of any wage garnishment to enforce the same, become, possessedor entitled, in which, from its nature is not capable of being levied onunder such sections, except such as is exempt under the provisions of Title34, and except that, as against an assignee of any such estate for valuableconsideration, the lien by virtue of this section shall not affect him unlesshe had notice thereof at the time of the assignment.
(Code 1950, § 8-431; 1977, c. 617; 1996, c. 1002; 2006, c. 575.)
