2006 Code of Virginia § 8.01-199 - Judgment, nature of
8.01-199. Judgment, nature of.
On any such motion, the judgment shall be for so much principal and interestas would be recoverable by action. It may be also for fifteen per centumdamages in addition thereto when the proceeding is against a treasurer,sheriff, or other collector, or his sureties, or his or their personalrepresentatives, for taxes or other public money which ought to have beenpaid into the state treasury. In such proceeding, the court, in pronouncingjudgment, may consider all the circumstances, and give judgment for thedamages or not, or for such part of the damages, as it may deem proper.
(Code 1950, 8-762; 1977, c. 617.)
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