Title 8.01. Civil Remedies and Procedure
Chapter 18. Executions and Other Means of Recovery
§ 8.01-496. Officer not required to go out of his jurisdiction to pay over money.
No officer receiving money under execution, when the person to whom it is payable resides in a different county or city from that in which the officer resides, shall be liable to have any judgment rendered against him or his sureties for the nonpayment thereof, until a demand of payment be made of such officer in his county or city, by such creditor or his attorney-at-law, or some person having a written order from the creditor.
Code 1950, § 8-425; 1977, c. 617.