58.1-3304 - Lists of judgments for partition or recovery of lands and of lands devised.
§ 58.1-3304. Lists of judgments for partition or recovery of lands and oflands devised.
The clerk of every court in which judgments are required to be docketed,except such clerks in cities having a population of more than 219,000 but notmore than 300,000 and in cities having a population of more than 70,000 butnot more than 86,000 and adjoining a city having a population of more than200,000, shall make out a list of all judgments and decrees for the partitionor recovery of lands which have been rendered and of all lands devised bywill, which have been recorded in such court within the year ending onDecember 31 next preceding. The list shall state the date of the decree, theland which is the subject of the partition and between whom and in whatproportion it is divided or, as the case may be, the date of the willcontaining the devise, when admitted to record, the names of the devisor anddevisee and the description of the land devised. The clerk shall deliver thelist to the commissioner for his county or city on or before January 15 ineach year.
Upon receipt of any such list as hereinbefore provided for, the commissionershall promptly and carefully check the list against the records in the officeof the clerk who furnished the same and, if he finds any errors in the list,he shall make proper correction thereof.
(Code 1950, § 58-798; 1956, c. 34; 1962, c. 236; 1964, c. 488; 1984, c. 675.)