§ 19.2-135 Commitment for trial; recognizance; notice to attorney for Commonwealth; remand on violation of condition.
§ 19.2-136 How bonds in recognizances payable; penalty.
§ 19.2-137 Order of court on recognizance.
§ 19.2-138 Repealed.
§ 19.2-141 How recognizance taken for incapacitated or insane person or one under disability.
§ 19.2-142 Where recognizance taken out of court to be sent.
§ 19.2-143 Where default recorded; process on recognizance; forfeiture on recognizance; when copy may be used; cash bond.
§ 19.2-144 Forfeiture of recognizance while in military or naval service.
§ 19.2-145 How penalty remitted.
§ 19.2-146 Defects in form of recognizance not to defeat action or judgment.
§ 19.2-147 Docketing judgment on forfeited recognizance or bond.
§ 19.2-148 Surety discharged on payment of amount, etc., into court.
§ 19.2-149 How surety on a bond in recognizance may surrender principal and be discharged from liability; deposit for surrender of principal.
§ 19.2-150 Proceeding when surety surrenders principal.

Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 19.2 > Chapter 9 > Article 2 - Recognizances.

  • Abstract of judgment: In a federal criminal proceeding, A certification from a U.S. District Court clerk that a judgment of restitution was entered against the defendant owing to the victim. If the defendant inherits, owns, or sells real property or holdings, these assets can then be attached at the state and local levels as well.
  • Accounting period: includes a part of a calendar year or another period of 12 calendar months or approximately 12 calendar months that begins when an income interest begins or ends when an income interest ends. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Applicable value: means the amount of the net fair market value of a trust taken into account under § Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Court: means any court vested with appropriate jurisdiction under the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 19.2-5
  • Current income beneficiary: means a beneficiary to which a fiduciary may distribute net income, whether or not the fiduciary also may distribute principal to the beneficiary. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Distribution: means a payment or transfer by a fiduciary to a beneficiary in the beneficiary's capacity as a beneficiary, made under the terms of the trust, without consideration other than the beneficiary's right to receive the payment or transfer under the terms of the trust. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Estate: includes the property of the decedent as the estate is originally constituted and the property of the estate as it exists at any time during administration. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Express unitrust: means a trust for which, under the terms of the trust without regard to this article, income or net income must or may be calculated as a unitrust amount. See Virginia Code 64.2-1039
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: includes a trustee, trust director under the Uniform Directed Trust Act (§ Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Gross estate: The total fair market value of all property and property interests, real and personal, tangible and intangible, of which a decedent had beneficial ownership at the time of death before subtractions for deductions, debts, administrative expenses, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration.
  • Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
  • Income: includes a part of receipts from a sale, exchange, or liquidation of a principal asset, to the extent provided in Articles 4 (§ Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means any accused, or any juvenile taken into custody pursuant to § Virginia Code 19.2-119
  • Person: means an individual, estate, trust, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Personal representative: means an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, or person that performs substantially the same function with respect to an estate under the law governing the person's status. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Principal: means property held in trust for distribution to, production of income for, or use by a current or successor beneficiary. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
  • Public corporation: means the Commonwealth of Virginia or any political subdivision thereof or any incorporated municipality therein or any public agency of the Commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof or of any municipality therein. See Virginia Code 1-219.1
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights and appurtenances thereto and interests therein, other than a chattel interest. See Virginia Code 1-219
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recognizance: means a signed commitment by a person to appear in court as directed and to adhere to any other terms ordered by an appropriate judicial officer as a condition of bail. See Virginia Code 19.2-119
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Special tax benefit: means :

    1. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033

  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
  • Successor beneficiary: means a person entitled to receive income or principal or to use property when an income interest or other current interest ends. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Terms of a trust: means :

    1. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033

  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trust: includes all trusts described in § Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Trustee: includes an original, additional, or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court. See Virginia Code 64.2-1033
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-255
  • Unitrust: includes an express unitrust. See Virginia Code 64.2-1039
  • Unitrust amount: means an amount computed by multiplying a determined value of a trust by a determined percentage. See Virginia Code 64.2-1039
  • Unitrust policy: means a policy described in §§