8.01-659 - Penalty for disobeying it.
§ 8.01-659. Penalty for disobeying it.
If the person on whom such writ is served shall, in disobedience to the writ,fail to bring the petitioner, with a return of the cause of his detention,before a court before which the writ is returnable, he shall forfeit to thepetitioner $300.
(Code 1950, § 8-600; 1977, c. 617.)