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Code · Virginia · Title 8.01 · Chapter 23

Code of Virginia § 8.01-616. Delivery of original papers of suit by clerk to commissioner.

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The clerk of a court shall, upon the request of any commissioner in chancery who has before him for execution an order made in such action, deliver to him the original papers thereof; and it shall not be necessary for the clerk to copy such papers, nor shall he charge any fee for copies of any of them, unless the same be specially ordered. The commissioner to whom such papers may be delivered, shall give his receipt therefor, and return the papers as speedily as possible to the office of the clerk of the court.
Code 1950, § 8-258; 1977, c. 617.
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