2006 Code of Virginia § 55-230.1 - Procedure for trial on warrant in distress

55-230.1. Procedure for trial on warrant in distress.

The distress warrant shall contain a return date and be tried in the samemanner as an action on a warrant as prescribed in 16.1-79 except that thecase shall be returnable not more than thirty days from its date of issuance.The trial or hearing of the issues, except as otherwise provided, shall bethe same, as near as may be, as in actions in personam.

(1980, c. 555; 1993, c. 841.)

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