If any person has a claim, legal or equitable, to (i) any specific personal property, (ii) any debt, including rent, whether the debt is due and payable or not, (iii) damages for breach of any contract, express or implied, or (iv) damages for a wrong, or for a judgment for which no supersedeas or other appeal bond has been posted, he may sue out an attachment therefor on any one or more of the grounds stated in § 8.01-534. However, if the claim is for a debt not due and payable, no attachment shall be sued out when the only ground for the attachment is that the defendant or one of the defendants is a foreign corporation, or is not a resident of this Commonwealth, and has estate or debts owing to him within this Commonwealth.
Code 1950, § 8-519; 1954, c. 333; 1977, c. 617; 1986, c. 341; 1993, c. 841.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure
Chapter 20 - Attachments and Bail in Civil Cases
§ 8.01-533. Who may sue out attachment
§ 8.01-534. Grounds of action for pretrial levy or seizure of attachment
§ 8.01-535. Jurisdiction of attachments; trial or hearing of issues
§ 8.01-536. Pleadings in attachment
§ 8.01-537. Petition for attachment; costs, fees and taxes
§ 8.01-537.1. Plaintiff to file bond
§ 8.01-538. Attachment of ships, boats and other vessels of more than twenty tons
§ 8.01-539. Who made defendants
§ 8.01-540. Issuance of attachment; against what attachment to issue
§ 8.01-541. To whom attachments directed; when and where returned
§ 8.01-542. Issue and execution of attachment on any day
§ 8.01-543. Issue of other attachments on original petition
§ 8.01-544. When attachment not served other attachments may issue; order of publication
§ 8.01-545. Amendments; formal defects
§ 8.01-546. What attachment to command; summons
§ 8.01-546.1. Exemption claims form
§ 8.01-546.2. Hearing on claim of exemption from levy or seizure
§ 8.01-547. Attachment against remainders
§ 8.01-548. Who may levy attachment and on what
§ 8.01-549. Restraining order or receiver
§ 8.01-550. How attachment levied
§ 8.01-551. When officer to take possession of property
§ 8.01-554. Where bond returned and filed; exceptions to bond
§ 8.01-555. When appeal bond given property to be delivered to owner
§ 8.01-556. Bonds may be given by any person
§ 8.01-557. Lien of attachment; priority of holder in due course
§ 8.01-558. Attachment lien on effects already in hands of officer
§ 8.01-560. How interest and profits of property applied in certain cases
§ 8.01-561. How property to be kept; how sold, when expensive to keep or perishable
§ 8.01-562. Examination on oath of codefendant; order and bond
§ 8.01-563. Principal defendant may claim exemption
§ 8.01-564. Procedure when codefendant fails to appear
§ 8.01-565. Suggestion that codefendant has not made full disclosure
§ 8.01-566. Who may make defense to attachment
§ 8.01-567. What defense may be made to attachments
§ 8.01-568. Quashing attachment or rendering judgment for defendant
§ 8.01-569. When petition dismissed; when retained and cause tried
§ 8.01-570. Judgment, etc., of court when claim of plaintiff established
§ 8.01-571. When defendant not served fails to appear plaintiff required to give bond
§ 8.01-572. Sale of real estate attached
§ 8.01-573. How and when claims of other persons to property tried
§ 8.01-574. Attachments in connection with pending suits or actions
§ 8.01-575. Rehearing permitted when judgment rendered on publication
§ 8.01-576. Order of court on rehearing or new trial; restitution to defendant