§ 8.01-113.When title of purchaser at judicial sale not to be disturbed.

Section 8.01-113 gives finality to a title bought at a confirmed judicial sale. Once a court confirms a property sale made under its decree, the purchaser’s title is protected from later challenge unless, within twelve months of the confirmation, either the trial court sets the sale aside, or an appeal is taken to the Court of Appeals — or allowed by the Supreme Court — and a decree later comes down requiring the sale to be set aside.

The section carves out a separate timeline for sales made under a divorce decree. There, the purchaser’s title stays protected unless a party appeals within the time Section 8.01-675.3 allows and, following that appeal, the trial court sets the sale aside and enters a decree to that effect.

Either way, this limitation on disturbing title does not cut off a different remedy: it does not affect any right to restitution of the sale proceeds. A person wronged by a sale that is later set aside may still recover the money, even after the window for attacking the title itself has closed.