West Virginia Code § 38-3-4

Abstracts of judgments; damages or penalty for failure of clerk or justice to
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deliver.
The clerk of every court of this state shall, without delay, make out and deliver a duly
certified abstract of every judgment rendered by such court, and every justice of the peace
shall, without delay, make out and deliver a duly certified abstract of every judgment
rendered by him or by any other justice, the docket of which judgment is in ehis possession
and under his control, to any person interested therein who may demand the same, and pay
or tender the fee therefor, in which abstract shall be stated: (a) The namres in full of the
plaintiff or plaintiffs, and the defendant or defendants, as they appear in the papers and
proceedings in the cause, and if the defendants are sued as partners, the individual names of
such defendants, and also the partnership name shall be stated; (b) the amount of the
judgment and the amount of the costs, stating each separatetly; (c) the value of the specific
property (if any) recovered by it, and the damages, if any, for its detention; (d) the date of
the judgment and the court in which, or the justice by whom, the judgment was rendered.
Any clerk or justice who shall fail to deliver such abstract as herein required shall, together
with the sureties in his official bond, be liable to the person injured by such failure for the
amount of his injury, or such injured person may, at his option, recover $50 from such clerk
or justice.

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