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.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-496
Officer not required to go out of his jurisdiction to pay over money
Code 1950, § 8-425; 1977, c. 617.
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