A person against whom the plaintiff is asserting the claim shall be made a defendant to the petition, and shall be known as a principal defendant. There shall also be made a defendant any person indebted to or having in his possession property, real or personal, belonging to a principal defendant, which is sought to be attached. There may also be made a defendant any person claiming title to, and interest in, or a lien upon the property sought to be attached. A defendant, other than a principal defendant, shall be known as a codefendant.
Code 1950, § 8-525; 1977, c. 617.
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