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Chapter 1 - Oaths and Affirmations
§ 49-1. Form of general oath required of officers - Every person before entering upon the discharge of any function...
§ 49-2. Form of oath for out-of-state commissioners - Where a person residing in another state is appointed a...
§ 49-3. Who may administer oaths to officers - The oaths to be taken by a person elected a...
§ 49-4. Magistrates and other officers who may administer oaths and take affidavits - Any oath or affidavit required by law, which is not...
§ 49-5. Officer of another state or country may take affidavit; authentication - An affidavit may also be made before any officer of...
§ 49-6. Oath or affidavit required of purchaser of fuel, etc. - Whenever the purchaser of any fuel, provisions or other thing,...
§ 49-7. Affidavits for corporations, partnerships, and other entities - An affidavit filed for a corporation or other entity may...
§ 49-8. Where fact of oaths having been taken is recorded - When a person elected or appointed to any office or...
§ 49-9. When affirmation may be made - If any person required to take an oath shall declare...
§ 49-10. Use of Bible in administration of oaths - No officer of this Commonwealth, or any political subdivision thereof,...
§ 49-11. Failure to take oath - If any officer or person mentioned in § 49-1 shall...
Chapter 2 - Bonds Taken by Courts and Officers
§ 49-12. Provisions and conditions; acknowledgment and recordation; duty of clerk when taken in pending cause - Every bond required by law to be taken or approved...
§ 49-13. How new or additional bonds required and given; failure to give - The proper court, whenever, in its opinion, it may be...
§ 49-14. Effect of giving new or additional bond - When it is provided by any section of this Code,...
§ 49-15. Surety companies may be accepted as sureties on bonds; rights and liabilities - Any company with a paid-up cash capital of not less...
§ 49-16. Allowance of expense of procuring corporate surety - Any court, judge or other officer whose duty it is...
§ 49-17. Surety company estopped to deny power to execute instrument or assume liability - Any such company which shall execute any bond as surety...
§ 49-18. Agent or attorney of surety company signing without seal - If any company organized and incorporated under the laws of...
§ 49-18.1. Seal not required - In any instance in which the provisions of this Code...
§ 49-19. Remedy on bonds - Suits, or motions as provided by § 8.01-227, may be...
§ 49-20. How bonds given in civil suits made payable - Any bond required by law to be given upon an...
§ 49-21. Failure to give bond - If any officer or person mentioned in § 49-12 shall...
Chapter 3 - Relief of Sureties
§ 49-22. Sureties on official bonds - When the surety, or his committee or personal representative, of...
§ 49-23. Surety on bond given under decree of court for payment of money - A surety, or his committee, or personal representative, in a...
§ 49-24. Failure of officer to give new bond - If any such officer, commissioner or receiver, being so required,...
§ 49-25. Surety may require creditor to sue - The surety, guarantor or endorser, or his committee or personal...
§ 49-26. Effect of failure of creditor to sue - If such creditor, or his committee or personal representative, shall...
§ 49-27. Surety's remedy against principal for money paid - If any person liable as bail, surety, guarantor or endorser,...
§ 49-28. Confession of judgment by surety or failure to notify principal to defend - If any such surety, other than bail, or his committee,...
§ 49-29. Failure of principal to offer to defend suit against surety - In all cases in which any principal debtor, or his...