A commissioner in chancery may, for services rendered by virtue of his office, charge the following fees, to wit:
For services which might be performed by notaries, the fees for such services and for any other service such fees as the court by which the commissioner is appointed may from time to time prescribe.
A commissioner shall not be compelled to make out or return a report until his fees therefor are paid or security given him to pay so much as may be adjudged appropriate by the court to which the report is to be returned or by the judge thereof in vacation, unless the court finds cause to order it to be made out and returned without such payment or security.
Code 1950, § 14-142; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-133; 1998, c. 872.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure
Chapter 23 - Commissioners in Chancery
§ 8.01-607. Appointment and removal
§ 8.01-608. How accounts referred
§ 8.01-609. Duties; procedure generally
§ 8.01-609.1. Commissioners in chancery
§ 8.01-610. Weight to be given commissioner's report
§ 8.01-611. Notice of time and place of taking account
§ 8.01-612. Commissioner may summons witnesses
§ 8.01-613. Commissioner may ask instructions of court
§ 8.01-614. His power to adjourn his proceedings
§ 8.01-615. When cause heard on report; time for filing exceptions
§ 8.01-616. Delivery of original papers of suit by clerk to commissioner
§ 8.01-617. Settlement of accounts of special receivers and special commissioners
§ 8.01-618. Reports of such settlements; when new bond required
§ 8.01-618.1. Fees of special receivers and commissioners for reports