SENATE BILL NO. 23 Offered January 9, 2008 Prefiled December 12, 2007 A BILL to amend and reenact § 8.01-452 of the Code of Virginia, relating to docketing assignment of judgments. ---------- Patron-- Reynolds ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 8.01-452 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8.01-452. Entry of assignment of judgment on judgment lien docket.

Whenever there shall be an assignment of a judgment, there may shall be a notation of the assignment made upon the judgment docket, where the same is recorded, by the clerk. An assignment, in order to be so noted, must be in writing, showing the date thereof, the name of the assignor and assignee, the amount of the judgment, and when and by what court granted, and either acknowledged as are deeds for recordation in the clerks' offices of circuit courts in this Commonwealth, or signed by the assignor, attested by two witnesses; or such judgment may be assigned by notation on the margin of the judgment lien docket on the page of the book where same is docketed, by the judgment creditor or his attorney of record, and attested by the clerk. The assignment, after the same is noted upon the judgment docket as is herein provided, shall be filed by the clerk with the other papers in the case in his office. When such assignment is made and noted as herein provided further executions shall be issued in the name of the assignee as the plaintiff in the case.

Any judgment that has been assigned, but for which an assignment has not been noted upon the judgment docket, shall be considered to have been satisfied by the judgment debtor, and he may apply to the court in which the judgment was rendered to have the same marked satisfied pursuant to § 8.01-455.