Liability of clerk for false certificate or failure to give bond

Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-100
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If any clerk make a certificate as to the bond, which is untrue, he and the sureties on his official bond shall be liable to any person injured thereby. Code 1950, § 8-661; 1977, c. 617; 1978, c. 718.
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