2015 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - Property and Conveyances
§ 55-308. Impounding animals

VA Code § 55-308 (2015) What's This?

Whenever any such animal is found trespassing upon any such enclosed ground, the owner or tenant of such enclosed grounds shall have the right to take up such animal and impound the same until the damages provided for by the preceding sections shall have been paid, or until the same are taken under execution by the officer as hereinbefore provided, and the costs of taking up and impounding such animal shall be estimated as a part of the actual damage.

Code 1950, ยง 8-878; 1977, c. 624.

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