Virginia Statutes

Title 8.01 - CIVIL REMEDIES AND PROCEDURE.

Chapter 1 - General Provisions as to Civil Cases (8.01-1 thru 8.01-4.3)
- 8.01-1 - How proceedings may be in actions pending when title takes effect.
- 8.01-1.1 - References to former sections, articles and chapters of Title 8 and other titles.
- 8.01-2 - General definitions for this title.
- 8.01-3 - Supreme Court may prescribe rules; effective date and availability; indexed, and annotated; effect of subsequent enactments of General Assembly.
- 8.01-4 - District courts and circuit courts may prescribe certain rules.
- 8.01-4.1 - How jurisdiction determined when proceeding is on penal bond.
- 8.01-4.2 - Who may execute bond for obtaining writ or order.
- 8.01-4.3 - Unsworn declarations under penalty of perjury; penalty.
Chapter 2 - Parties (8.01-5 thru 8.01-24)
- 8.01-10 - Joinder of tenants in common.
- 8.01-11 - Proceedings on writing binding deceased person.
- 8.01-12 - Suit by beneficial owner when legal title in another.
- 8.01-13 - Assignee or beneficial owner may sue in own name; certain discounts allowed.
- 8.01-14 - Suit against assignor.
- 8.01-15 - Suits by and against unincorporated associations or orders.
- 8.01-15.1 - Anonymous plaintiff; motion for identification; factors to be considered by court.
- 8.01-15.2 - Servicemembers Civil Relief Act; default judgment.
- 8.01-16 - New parties may have continuance.
- 8.01-17 - When party whose powers cease is defendant.
- 8.01-18 - When suit discontinued unless revived.
- 8.01-19 - Effect of marriage or change of name of party.
- 8.01-20 - Effect of marriage, change of name or death on appeal.
- 8.01-20.1 - Certification of expert witness opinion at time of service of process.
- 8.01-21 - Judgment when death or disability occurs after verdict but before judgment.
- 8.01-22 - When death or disability occurs as to any of several plaintiffs or defendants.
- 8.01-23 - Decree in suit when number of parties exceeds 30 and one of them dies.
- 8.01-24 - Writ of scire facias abolished; substitutes therefor.
- 8.01-5 - Effect of nonjoinder or misjoinder; limitation on joinder of insurance company.
- 8.01-6 - Amending pleading; relation back to original pleading.
- 8.01-6.1 - Amendment of pleading changing or adding a claim or defense; relation back.
- 8.01-6.2 - Amendment of pleading; relation back to original pleading; confusion in trade name.
- 8.01-6.3 - Actions or suits against fiduciaries; style of the case; amendment of pleading.
- 8.01-7 - When court may add new parties to suit.
- 8.01-8 - How minors may sue.
- 8.01-9 - Guardian ad litem for persons under disability; when guardian ad litem need not be appointed for person under disability.
Chapter 3 - Actions (8.01-25 thru 8.01-227.10)
- 8.01-100 - Liability of clerk for false certificate or failure to give bond.
- 8.01-101 - Purchasers relieved of liability for purchase money paid to such commissioner.
- 8.01-102 - Purchasers not required to see to application of purchase money.
- 8.01-103 - Special commissioner or other person appointed to do so to receive purchase money, etc.; liability of clerk for failure to give notice of appointment.
- 8.01-104 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-105 - Rule against special commissioner, purchaser, etc., for judgment for amounts due.
- 8.01-106 - How cause heard upon rule and judgment rendered.
- 8.01-107 - Trial by jury of issues made upon rule.
- 8.01-108 - When sureties of commissioner, purchaser, etc., proceeded against by rule.
- 8.01-109 - Commission for selling, collecting, etc.; each piece of property to constitute separate sale.
- 8.01-110 - Appointment of special commissioner to execute deed, etc.; effect of deed.
- 8.01-111 - What such deed to show.
- 8.01-112 - Reinstatement of cause to appoint special commissioner to make deed.
- 8.01-113 - When title of purchaser at judicial sale not to be disturbed.
- 8.01-114 - When property to be taken by officer; summary of evidence, affidavits and report to be filed.
- 8.01-115 - Bond required as prerequisite.
- 8.01-116 - Return of property to defendant or other claimant.
- 8.01-117 - Exceptions to sufficiency of bonds.
- 8.01-118 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-119 - Hearing to review issuance of order or process under § 8.01-114 or to consider request for such order or process.
- 8.01-120 - No verdict as to some items; omission of price or value.
- 8.01-121 - Final judgment.
- 8.01-122 - Charges for keeping property.
- 8.01-123 - Recovery of damages sustained for property withheld during appeal.
- 8.01-124 - Motion for judgment in circuit court for unlawful entry or detainer.
- 8.01-125 - When summons returnable to circuit court; jury.
- 8.01-126 - Summons for unlawful detainer issued by magistrate or clerk or judge of a general district court.
- 8.01-127 - , .1
- 8.01-128 - Verdict and judgment; damages.
- 8.01-129 - Appeal from judgment of general district court.
- 8.01-130 - Judgment not to bar action of trespass or ejectment.
- 8.01-131 - Action of ejectment retained; when and by whom brought.
- 8.01-132 - What interest and right plaintiff must have.
- 8.01-133 - Who shall be defendants; when and how landlord may defend.
- 8.01-134 - How action commenced and prosecuted.
- 8.01-135 - What is to be stated in motion for judgment.
- 8.01-136 - How premises described.
- 8.01-137 - Plaintiff to state how he claims.
- 8.01-138 - There may be several counts and several plaintiffs.
- 8.01-139 - What proof by plaintiff is sufficient.
- 8.01-140 - Effect of reservation in deed; burden of proof.
- 8.01-141 - When action by cotenants, etc., against cotenants, what plaintiff to prove.
- 8.01-142 - Verdict when action against several defendants.
- 8.01-143 - When there may be several judgments against defendants.
- 8.01-144 - Recovery of part of premises claimed.
- 8.01-145 - When possession of part not possession of whole.
- 8.01-146 - When vendee, etc., entitled to conveyance of legal title, vendor cannot recover.
- 8.01-147 - When mortgagee or trustee not to recover.
- 8.01-148 - Right of defendant to resort to equity not affected.
- 8.01-149 - Verdict when jury finds for plaintiffs or any of them.
- 8.01-150 - Verdict when any plaintiff has no right.
- 8.01-151 - How verdict to specify premises recovered.
- 8.01-152 - How verdict to specify undivided interest or share.
- 8.01-153 - Verdict to specify estate of plaintiff.
- 8.01-154 - When right of plaintiff expires before trial, what judgment entered.
- 8.01-155 - How judgment for plaintiff entered.
- 8.01-156 - Authority of sheriffs, etc., to store and sell personal property removed from premises; recovery of possession by owner; disposition or sale.
- 8.01-157 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-158 - How claim of plaintiff for profits and damages assessed.
- 8.01-159 - When court to assess damages.
- 8.01-160 - Defendant to give notice of claim for improvements.
- 8.01-161 - How allowed.
- 8.01-162 - Postponement of assessment and allowance.
- 8.01-163 - Judgment to be conclusive.
- 8.01-164 - Recovery of mesne profits, etc., not affected.
- 8.01-165 - Writ of right, etc., abolished.
- 8.01-166 - How defendant may apply therefor, and have judgment suspended.
- 8.01-167 - How damages of plaintiff assessed.
- 8.01-168 - For what time.
- 8.01-169 - How value of improvements determined in favor of defendant.
- 8.01-170 - If allowance for improvements exceed damages, what to be done.
- 8.01-171 - Verdict for balance, after offsetting damages against improvements.
- 8.01-172 - Balance for defendant a lien on the land.
- 8.01-173 - How tenant for life, paying for improvements, reimbursed.
- 8.01-174 - Exception as to mortgagees and trustees.
- 8.01-175 - When plaintiff may require his estate only to be valued; how determined; how he may elect to relinquish his title to defendant.
- 8.01-176 - How payment of such value to be made by defendant; when land sold therefor.
- 8.01-177 - When such value to be deemed real estate.
- 8.01-178 - When and how defendant, if evicted, may recover from plaintiff amount paid.
- 8.01-179 - Motion for judgment to establish boundary lines.
- 8.01-180 - Parties defendant; pleadings.
- 8.01-181 - Surveys.
- 8.01-182 - Claims to rents, etc., not considered.
- 8.01-183 - Recordation and effect of judgment.
- 8.01-184 - Power to issue declaratory judgments.
- 8.01-184.1 - Declaratory judgment to adjudicate constitutional nexus.
- 8.01-185 - Venue.
- 8.01-186 - Further relief.
- 8.01-187 - Commissioners or condemnation jurors to determine compensation for property taken or damaged.
- 8.01-188 - Jury trial.
- 8.01-189 - Injunction.
- 8.01-190 - Costs.
- 8.01-191 - Construction of article.
- 8.01-192 - How claims to be prosecuted.
- 8.01-193 - Defense and hearing.
- 8.01-194 - Jury may be impaneled; judgment.
- 8.01-195 - No judgment to be paid without special appropriation.
- 8.01-195.1 - Short title.
- 8.01-195.10 - Purpose; action by the General Assembly required; definitions.
- 8.01-195.11 - Compensation for wrongful incarceration.
- 8.01-195.12 - Conditions for continued compensation.
- 8.01-195.2 - Definitions.
- 8.01-195.3 - Commonwealth, transportation district or locality liable for damages in certain cases.
- 8.01-195.4 - Jurisdiction of claims under this article; right to jury trial; service on Commonwealth or locality.
- 8.01-195.5 - Settlement of certain cases.
- 8.01-195.6 - Notice of claim.
- 8.01-195.7 - Statute of limitations.
- 8.01-195.8 - Release of further claims.
- 8.01-195.9 - Claims evaluation program.
- 8.01-196 - Comptroller to institute proceedings.
- 8.01-197 - In what name; when not to abate.
- 8.01-198 - Action, against whom instituted.
- 8.01-199 - Judgment, nature of.
- 8.01-200 - Mistakes against State corrected.
- 8.01-201 - Execution; real estate to be sold.
- 8.01-202 - Execution, to whom issued.
- 8.01-203 - Goods and chattels liable before real estate.
- 8.01-204 - Notice of sale of real estate; when sale to be made.
- 8.01-205 - How sale made.
- 8.01-206 - Terms of sale.
- 8.01-207 - Who to collect purchase money and make deed; disposition of proceeds of sale.
- 8.01-208 - When successor of officer to make deed.
- 8.01-209 - Bond for purchase money to have force of judgment.
- 8.01-210 - Judgment against deceased obligors.
- 8.01-211 - When venditioni exponas issued to sheriff of adjacent county; what to contain.
- 8.01-212 - Officer to deliver to sheriff goods and chattels levied on.
- 8.01-213 - Where same to be sold.
- 8.01-214 - Where real estate to be sold.
- 8.01-215 - Return of officer when sale not made because of prior encumbrance.
- 8.01-216 - Comptroller's power to adjust old claims.
- 8.01-216.1 - Citation.
- 8.01-216.10 - Civil investigative demands; issuance.
- 8.01-216.11 - Civil investigative demands; contents and deadlines.
- 8.01-216.12 - Civil investigative demands; protected material or information.
- 8.01-216.13 - Civil investigative demands; service and jurisdiction.
- 8.01-216.14 - Civil investigative demands; documentary material.
- 8.01-216.15 - Civil investigative demands; interrogatories.
- 8.01-216.16 - Civil investigative demands; oral examinations.
- 8.01-216.17 - Civil investigative demands; custodian of documents; answers.
- 8.01-216.18 - Civil investigative demands; judicial proceedings for noncompliance.
- 8.01-216.19 - Application of the Rules of the Supreme Court.
- 8.01-216.2 - Definitions.
- 8.01-216.3 - False claims; civil penalty.
- 8.01-216.4 - Attorney General; investigation, civil action.
- 8.01-216.5 - Civil actions filed by private persons; Commonwealth may intervene.
- 8.01-216.6 - Rights of private plaintiff and Commonwealth.
- 8.01-216.7 - Award to private plaintiff.
- 8.01-216.8 - Certain actions barred; relief from employment discrimination.
- 8.01-216.9 - Procedure; statute of limitations.
- 8.01-217 - How name of person may be changed.
- 8.01-218 - Replevin abolished.
- 8.01-219 - Effect of judgment in trover.
- 8.01-220 - Action for alienation of affection, breach of promise, criminal conversation and seduction abolished.
- 8.01-220.1 - Defense of interspousal immunity abolished as to certain causes of action arising on or after July 1, 1981.
- 8.01-220.1:1 - Civil immunity for officers, partners, members, managers, trustees and directors of certain tax exe...
- 8.01-220.1:2 - Civil immunity for teachers under certain circumstances
- 8.01-220.1:3 - Immunity for members of church, synagogue or religious body
- 8.01-220.1:4 - Civil immunity for officers and directors of certain nonprofit organizations
- 8.01-220.2 - Spousal liability for medical care.
- 8.01-221 - Damages from violation of statute, remedy therefor and penalty.
- 8.01-221.1 - Unestablished business damages; lost profits.
- 8.01-222 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-223 - Lack of privity no defense in certain cases.
- 8.01-223.1 - Use of constitutional rights.
- 8.01-223.2 - Immunity of persons at public hearing.
- 8.01-224 - Defense of governmental immunity not available to certain persons in actions for damages from blasting, etc.
- 8.01-225 - Persons rendering emergency care, obstetrical services exempt from liability.
- 8.01-225.01 - Certain immunity for health care providers during disasters under specific circumstances.
- 8.01-225.02 - Certain liability protection for health care providers during disasters.
- 8.01-225.1 - Immunity for team physicians.
- 8.01-225.2 - Immunity for those rendering emergency care to animals.
- 8.01-226 - Duty of care to law-enforcement officers and firefighters, etc.
- 8.01-226.1 - Civil immunity when participating in Lawyers Helping Lawyers.
- 8.01-226.10 - Civil immunity for causing the arrest of a person for a bad check.
- 8.01-226.11 - Civil immunity for operation of victim notification program.
- 8.01-226.12 - Duty of landlord and managing agent with respect to visible mold.
- 8.01-226.2 - Civil immunity for licensed professional engineers and licensed architects participating in rescue or relief assistance.
- 8.01-226.3 - Civil immunity for officers, directors and members of certain crime information-gathering organizations.
- 8.01-226.4 - Civil immunity for hospice volunteers.
- 8.01-226.5 - Immunity for installers and inspectors of child restraint devices.
- 8.01-226.5:1 - Civil immunity for school board employees supervising self-administration of certain medicatio...
- 8.01-226.5:2 - Immunity of hospital or rescue squad personnel for the acceptance of certain infants
- 8.01-226.6 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-226.7 - Owner and agent compliance with residential lead-based paint notification; maintenance immunity.
- 8.01-226.8 - Civil immunity for public officials and private volunteers participating in certain programs for probationers.
- 8.01-226.9 - Exemption from civil liability in connection with arrest or detention of person suspected of shoplifting.
- 8.01-227 - Remedy by motion on certain bonds given or taken by officers; notice.
- 8.01-227.1 - through 8.01-227.3
- 8.01-227.10 - Warning required.
- 8.01-227.4 - Definitions.
- 8.01-227.5 - Persons who may bring action; persons against whom actions may be brought; damages recoverable.
- 8.01-227.6 - Law-enforcement officer or agency; health care provider not liable under certain conditions.
- 8.01-227.7 - Statute of limitations.
- 8.01-227.8 - Definitions.
- 8.01-227.9 - Civil immunity for space flight entities.
- 8.01-25 - Survival of causes of action.
- 8.01-26 - Assignment of causes of action.
- 8.01-27 - Civil action on note or writing promising to pay money.
- 8.01-27.1 - Additional recovery in certain civil actions concerning checks.
- 8.01-27.2 - Civil recovery for giving bad check.
- 8.01-27.3 - Evidence in actions regarding issuance of bad check.
- 8.01-27.4 - Civil recovery for professional services.
- 8.01-28 - When judgment to be given in action upon contract or note unless defendant appears and denies claim under oath.
- 8.01-29 - Procedure in actions on annuity and installment bonds, and other actions for penalties for nonperformance.
- 8.01-30 - Procedure in actions on contracts made by several persons.
- 8.01-31 - Accounting in equity.
- 8.01-32 - Action on lost evidences of debt.
- 8.01-33 - Equitable relief in certain cases.
- 8.01-34 - When contribution among wrongdoers enforced.
- 8.01-35 - Damages for loss of income not diminished by reimbursement.
- 8.01-35.1 - Effect of release or covenant not to sue in respect to liability and contribution.
- 8.01-36 - Joinder of action of tort to infant with action for recovery of expenses incurred thereby.
- 8.01-37 - Recovery of lost wages in action for injuries to emancipated infant.
- 8.01-37.1 - Claims for medical services provided by United States; proof of reasonable value.
- 8.01-38 - Tort liability of hospitals.
- 8.01-38.1 - Limitation on recovery of punitive damages.
- 8.01-39 - Completion or acceptance of work not bar to action against independent contractor for personal injury, wrongful death or damage to property.
- 8.01-40 - Unauthorized use of name or picture of any person; exemplary damages; statute of limitations.
- 8.01-40.1 - Action for injury resulting from violation of Computer Crimes Act; limitations.
- 8.01-40.2 - Unsolicited transmission of advertising materials by facsimile machine.
- 8.01-41 - Wrongful distraint, attachment.
- 8.01-42 - Loss or injury to clothing in dyeing, dry cleaning, or laundering.
- 8.01-42.1 - Civil action for racial, religious, or ethnic harassment, violence or vandalism.
- 8.01-42.2 - Liability of guest for hotel damage.
- 8.01-42.3 - Civil action for stalking.
- 8.01-43 - Action against parent for damage to public property by minor.
- 8.01-44 - Action against parent for damage to private property by minor.
- 8.01-44.1 - Immunity from civil liability of members of certain committees, etc.
- 8.01-44.2 - Action against physician for vaccine-related injury or death.
- 8.01-44.3 - Divulgence of communications by qualified interpreters and communications assistants.
- 8.01-44.4 - Action for shoplifting and employee theft.
- 8.01-44.5 - Exemplary damages for persons injured by intoxicated drivers.
- 8.01-44.6 - Action for injury to cemetery property.
- 8.01-44.7 - Action for tampering with metering device and diverting service.
- 8.01-45 - Action for insulting words.
- 8.01-46 - Justification and mitigation of damages.
- 8.01-46.1 - Disclosure of employment-related information; presumptions; causes of action; definitions.
- 8.01-47 - Immunity of school personnel investigating or reporting certain incidents.
- 8.01-48 - Mitigation in actions against newspapers, etc.
- 8.01-49 - Defamatory statements in radio and television broadcasts.
- 8.01-49.1 - Liability for defamatory material on the Internet.
- 8.01-50 - Action for death by wrongful act; how and when to be brought.
- 8.01-50.1 - Certification of expert witness opinion at time of service of process.
- 8.01-51 - No action when deceased has compromised claim.
- 8.01-52 - Amount of damages.
- 8.01-52.1 - Admissibility of expressions of sympathy.
- 8.01-53 - Class and beneficiaries; when determined.
- 8.01-54 - Judgment to distribute recovery when verdict fails to do so.
- 8.01-55 - Compromise of claim for death by wrongful act.
- 8.01-56 - When right of action not to determine nor action to abate.
- 8.01-57 - Liability of railroads for injury to certain employees.
- 8.01-58 - Contributory negligence no bar to recovery; violation of safety appliance acts.
- 8.01-59 - Assumption of risk; violation of safety appliance acts.
- 8.01-60 - Contracts exempting from liability void; set-off of insurance.
- 8.01-61 - Definition of "common carrier" as used in article.
- 8.01-62 - Action may embrace liability under both State and federal acts.
- 8.01-63 - Liability for death or injury to guest in motor vehicle.
- 8.01-64 - Liability for negligence of minor.
- 8.01-65 - Defense of lack of consent of owner.
- 8.01-66 - Recovery of damages for loss of use of vehicle.
- 8.01-66.1 - Remedy for arbitrary refusal of motor vehicle insurance claim.
- 8.01-66.10 - Death claims settled by compromise or suit.
- 8.01-66.11 - Necessity for settlement or judgment.
- 8.01-66.12 - Term physician to include chiropractor.
- 8.01-66.2 - Lien against person whose negligence causes injury.
- 8.01-66.3 - Lien inferior to claim of attorney or personal representative.
- 8.01-66.4 - Subrogation.
- 8.01-66.5 - Written notice required.
- 8.01-66.6 - Liability for reasonable charges for services.
- 8.01-66.7 - Hearing and disposal of claim of unreasonableness.
- 8.01-66.8 - Petition to enforce lien.
- 8.01-66.9 - Lien in favor of Commonwealth, its programs, institutions or departments on claim for personal injuries.
- 8.01-66.9:1 - Lien against recovery for medical treatment provided to prisoner
- 8.01-67 - Definitions; persons under a disability; fiduciary.
- 8.01-68 - Jurisdiction.
- 8.01-69 - Commencement of suit; parties.
- 8.01-70 - , 8.01-71
- 8.01-72 - When death to abate such suit.
- 8.01-73 - Guardian ad litem to be appointed.
- 8.01-74 - Leases on behalf of persons under disability; new leases.
- 8.01-75 - Who not to be purchaser.
- 8.01-76 - How proceeds from disposition to be secured and applied; when same may be paid over.
- 8.01-77 - What proceeds of sale to pass as real estate.
- 8.01-78 - Alternate procedure for sale of real estate of person under disability.
- 8.01-79 - Same; reference of petition to commissioner.
- 8.01-80 - Same; action of court on report; application of proceeds of transaction.
- 8.01-81 - Who may compel partition of land; jurisdiction; validation of certain partitions of mineral rights.
- 8.01-82 - When shares of two or more laid off together.
- 8.01-83 - Allotment to one or more parties, or sale, in lieu of partition.
- 8.01-84 - Application of proceeds of sale to payment of lien.
- 8.01-85 - Disposition of share in proceeds of person under disability.
- 8.01-86 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-87 - Validation of certain partitions prior to act of 1922.
- 8.01-88 - Decree of partition to vest legal title.
- 8.01-89 - When proceeds of sale deemed personal estate.
- 8.01-90 - When name or share of parties unknown.
- 8.01-91 - Effect of partition or sale on lessee's rights.
- 8.01-92 - Allowance of attorneys' fees out of unrepresented shares.
- 8.01-93 - Partition of goods, etc., by sale, if necessary.
- 8.01-94 - When sold, leased or exchanged.
- 8.01-95 - Procedure in such case.
- 8.01-96 - Decree for sale; how made; bond of commissioner.
- 8.01-97 - Delinquent taxes to be ascertained.
- 8.01-98 - Sales of land when purchase price insufficient to pay taxes, etc.
- 8.01-99 - Bond required of special commissioner for sale.
Chapter 4 - Limitations of Actions (8.01-228 thru 8.01-256)
- 8.01-228 - Scope of limitations; "personal action" defined.
- 8.01-229 - Suspension or tolling of statute of limitations; effect of disabilities; death; injunction; prevention of service by defendant; dismissal, nonsuit or abatement; devise for payment of debts;
- 8.01-230 - Accrual of right of action.
- 8.01-231 - Commonwealth not within statute of limitations.
- 8.01-232 - Effect of promises not to plead statute.
- 8.01-233 - When action deemed brought on counterclaim or cross-claim; when statute of limitations tolled; defendant's consent required for dismissal.
- 8.01-234 - Repeal of limitation not to remove bar of statute.
- 8.01-235 - Bar of expiration of limitation period raised only as affirmative defense in responsive pleading.
- 8.01-236 - Limitation of entry on or action for land.
- 8.01-237 - Effect of disabilities upon right of entry on, or action for, land.
- 8.01-238 - To repeal grant.
- 8.01-239 - Ground rents.
- 8.01-240 - Liens for water, sewer, or sidewalk assessments.
- 8.01-241 - Limitation of enforcement of deeds of trust, mortgages and liens for unpaid purchase money.
- 8.01-241.1 - Permissible form for certificate.
- 8.01-242 - Same; when no maturity date is given; credit line deeds of trust.
- 8.01-243 - Personal action for injury to person or property generally; extension in actions for malpractice against health care provider.
- 8.01-243.1 - Actions for medical malpractice; minors.
- 8.01-243.2 - Limitations of actions by confined persons; exhaustion.
- 8.01-244 - Actions for wrongful death; limitation.
- 8.01-245 - Limitation on actions upon the bond of any fiduciaries or as to suits against fiduciaries themselves; accrual of cause of action where execution sustained.
- 8.01-246 - Personal actions based on contracts.
- 8.01-247 - When action on contract governed by the law of another state or country barred in Virginia.
- 8.01-247.1 - Limitation on action for defamation, etc.
- 8.01-248 - Personal actions for which no other limitation is specified.
- 8.01-249 - When cause of action shall be deemed to accrue in certain personal actions.
- 8.01-250 - Limitation on certain actions for damages arising out of defective or unsafe condition of improvements to real property.
- 8.01-250.1 - Limitation on actions involving removal of asbestos.
- 8.01-251 - Limitations on enforcement of judgments.
- 8.01-252 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-253 - Limitation of suits to avoid voluntary conveyances, etc.
- 8.01-254 - Limitation on enforcement of bequests and legacies.
- 8.01-255 - Time for presenting claim against Commonwealth.
- 8.01-255.1 - Limitation of action for breach of condition subsequent or termination of determinable fee simple estate.
- 8.01-255.2 - Limitation on motion for new execution after loss of property sold under indemnity bond.
- 8.01-256 - As to rights and remedies existing when this chapter takes effect.
Chapter 5 - Venue (8.01-257 thru 8.01-267)
- 8.01-257 - Venue generally.
- 8.01-258 - Venue not jurisdictional.
- 8.01-259 - Application.
- 8.01-260 - Proper venue; preferred forum in certain actions; permissible forums for other actions.
- 8.01-261 - Category A or preferred venue.
- 8.01-262 - Category B or permissible venue.
- 8.01-262.1 - Place for bringing action under a contract related to construction.
- 8.01-263 - Multiple parties.
- 8.01-264 - Venue improperly laid; objection.
- 8.01-265 - Change of venue by court.
- 8.01-266 - Costs.
- 8.01-267 - Discretion of judge.
Chapter 5.1 - Multiple Claimant Litigation Act (8.01-267.1 thru 8.01-267.9)
- 8.01-267.1 - Standards governing consolidation, etc., and transfer.
- 8.01-267.2 - When actions pending in same court.
- 8.01-267.3 - Consolidation and other combined proceedings.
- 8.01-267.4 - Transfer.
- 8.01-267.5 - Joinder and severance.
- 8.01-267.6 - Separate trials; special interrogatories.
- 8.01-267.7 - Later-filed actions.
- 8.01-267.8 - Interlocutory appeal.
- 8.01-267.9 - Effect on other law.
Chapter 6 - Notice of Lis Pendens or Attachment (8.01-268 thru 8.01-269)
- 8.01-268 - When and how docketed and indexed.
- 8.01-269 - Dismissal or satisfaction of same.
Chapter 7 - Civil Actions; Commencement, Pleadings, and Motions (8.01-270 thru 8.01-284)
- 8.01-270 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-271 - Compliance with Rules of Supreme Court.
- 8.01-271.01 - Electronic filings in civil actions in circuit court.
- 8.01-271.1 - Signing of pleadings, motions, and other papers; oral motions; sanctions.
- 8.01-272 - Pleading several matters; joining tort and contract claims; separate trial in discretion of court; counterclaims.
- 8.01-273 - Demurrer; form; grounds to be stated; amendment.
- 8.01-273.1 - Motion for judgment; motion to refer; Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act.
- 8.01-274 - Motion to strike defensive pleading in equity and at law; exceptions abolished.
- 8.01-275 - When action or suit not to abate for want of form; what defects not to be regarded.
- 8.01-275.1 - When service of process is timely.
- 8.01-276 - Demurrer to evidence and plea in abatement abolished; motion to strike evidence and written motion, respectively, to be used in lieu thereof.
- 8.01-277 - Defective process; motion to quash; untimely service; motion to dismiss.
- 8.01-278 - When plea of infancy not allowed; liability of infants for debts as traders; liability of infants on loans to defray expenses of education.
- 8.01-279 - When proof is unnecessary unless affidavit filed; handwriting; ownership; partnership or incorporation.
- 8.01-280 - Pleadings may be sworn to before clerk; affidavit of belief sufficient.
- 8.01-281 - Pleading in alternative; separate trial on motion of party.
- 8.01-282 - Motion to strike evidence.
- 8.01-283 - Answer in equity proceeding.
Chapter 8 - Process (8.01-285 thru 8.01-327.2)
Chapter 9 - Personal Jurisdiction in Certain Actions (8.01-328 thru 8.01-330)
Chapter 10 - Dockets (8.01-331 thru 8.01-335)
- 8.01-331 - Entry of cases on current dockets.
- 8.01-332 - Calling current docket.
- 8.01-333 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-334 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-335 - Certain cases struck from dockets after certain period; reinstatement.
Chapter 11 - Juries (8.01-336 thru 8.01-363)
- 8.01-336 - Jury trial of right; waiver of jury trial; court-ordered jury trial; trial by jury of plea in equity; equitable claim.
- 8.01-337 - Who liable to serve as jurors.
- 8.01-338 - Who disqualified.
- 8.01-339 - No person eligible for whom request is made.
- 8.01-340 - No person to serve who has case at that term.
- 8.01-341 - Who are exempt from jury service.
- 8.01-341.1 - Exemptions from jury service upon request.
- 8.01-341.2 - Deferral or limitation of jury service for particular occupational inconvenience.
- 8.01-342 - Restrictions on amount of jury service permitted.
- 8.01-343 - Appointment of jury commissioners.
- 8.01-344 - Notification of jury commissioners; their oath.
- 8.01-345 - Lists of qualified persons to be prepared by jury commissioners; random selection process.
- 8.01-346 - Lists to be delivered to clerk and safely kept by him; addition and removal of names.
- 8.01-347 - How names put in jury box.
- 8.01-348 - How names of jurors drawn from box.
- 8.01-349 - Notations on ballots drawn; return to box; when such ballots may be drawn again.
- 8.01-350 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-350.1 - Selection of jurors by mechanical or electronic techniques for the term of court.
- 8.01-351 - Preparation and disposition of list of jurors drawn.
- 8.01-352 - Objections to irregularities in jury lists or for legal disability; effect thereof.
- 8.01-353 - Notice to jurors; making copy of jury panel available to counsel; objection to notice.
- 8.01-353.1 - Jurors to provide identification.
- 8.01-354 - Writ of venire facias" defined.
- 8.01-355 - Jurors on list to be used for trial of cases during term; discharge or dispensing with attendance of jurors; drawing additional jurors.
- 8.01-356 - Failure of juror to appear.
- 8.01-357 - Selection of jury panel.
- 8.01-358 - Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors.
- 8.01-359 - Trial; numbers of jurors in civil cases; how jurors selected from panel.
- 8.01-360 - Additional jurors when trial likely to be protracted.
- 8.01-361 - New juror may be sworn in place of one disabled; when court may discharge jury.
- 8.01-362 - Special juries.
- 8.01-363 - When impartial jury cannot be obtained locally.
Chapter 12 - Interpleader; Claims of Third Parties to Property Distrained or Levied on, etc (8.01-364 thru 8.01-373)
- 8.01-364 - Interpleader.
- 8.01-365 - How claim of third party tried.
- 8.01-366 - Sale of property when no forthcoming bond is given.
- 8.01-367 - Indemnifying bond to officer.
- 8.01-368 - Return of such bond to clerk's office.
- 8.01-369 - Effect of such bond.
- 8.01-370 - Claimant may give suspending bond; proceedings to have title settled; action on indemnifying or suspending bond.
- 8.01-371 - How forthcoming bond taken of claimant of property the sale whereof has been suspended.
- 8.01-372 - Sale despite bond when property perishable, etc.
- 8.01-373 - When property sells for more than claim, how surplus paid.
Chapter 13 - Certain Incidents of Trial (8.01-374 thru 8.01-384.2)
- 8.01-374 - Procedure when original papers in cause are lost.
- 8.01-374.1 - Consolidation or bifurcation of issues or claims in certain cases; appeal.
- 8.01-375 - Exclusion of witnesses in civil cases.
- 8.01-376 - Views by juries.
- 8.01-377 - Remedy when variance appears between evidence and allegations.
- 8.01-377.1 - Summary judgment.
- 8.01-378 - Trial judge not to direct verdicts.
- 8.01-379 - Argument before jury.
- 8.01-379.1 - Informing jury of amounts sued for.
- 8.01-379.2 - Jury instructions.
- 8.01-379.3 - General verdict accompanied by answer to interrogatories.
- 8.01-380 - Dismissal of action by nonsuit; fees and costs.
- 8.01-381 - What jury may carry out.
- 8.01-382 - Verdict, judgment or decree to fix period at which interest begins; final order; judgment or decree for interest.
- 8.01-383 - Power to grant new trial; how often.
- 8.01-383.1 - Appeal when verdict reduced and accepted under protest; new trial for inadequate damages.
- 8.01-384 - Formal exceptions to rulings or orders of court unnecessary; motion for new trial unnecessary in certain cases.
- 8.01-384.1 - Interpreters for deaf in civil proceedings.
- 8.01-384.1:1 - Interpreters for non-English-speaking persons in civil cases
- 8.01-384.2 - Waiver of discovery time limitations by parties.
Chapter 14 - Evidence (8.01-385 thru 8.01-420.7)
- 8.01-385 - Definitions.
- 8.01-386 - Judicial notice of laws.
- 8.01-387 - Notice by courts and officers of signatures of judges and Governor.
- 8.01-388 - Judicial notice of official publications.
- 8.01-389 - Judicial records as evidence; full faith and credit; recitals in deeds, deeds of trust, and mortgages; "records" defined.
- 8.01-390 - Nonjudicial records as evidence.
- 8.01-390.1 - School records as evidence.
- 8.01-390.2 - Reports by Chief Medical Examiner received as evidence.
- 8.01-391 - Copies of originals as evidence.
- 8.01-391.1 - Substitute checks as evidence.
- 8.01-392 - When court order book or equivalent is lost or illegible, what matters may be reentered.
- 8.01-393 - When book or paper or equivalent in clerk's office lost, destroyed, or illegible to be again recorded.
- 8.01-394 - How contents of any such lost record, etc., proved.
- 8.01-395 - Validating certain proceedings under § 8.01-394.
- 8.01-396 - No person incompetent to testify by reason of interest, or because a party.
- 8.01-396.1 - Competency of witness.
- 8.01-397 - Corroboration required and evidence receivable when one party incapable of testifying.
- 8.01-397.1 - Evidence of habit or routine practice; defined.
- 8.01-398 - Privileged marital communications.
- 8.01-399 - Communications between physicians and patients.
- 8.01-400 - Communications between ministers of religion and persons they counsel or advise.
- 8.01-400.1 - Privileged communications by interpreters for the deaf.
- 8.01-400.2 - Communications between certain mental health professionals and clients.
- 8.01-401 - How adverse party may be examined; effect of refusal to testify.
- 8.01-401.1 - Opinion testimony by experts; hearsay exception.
- 8.01-401.2 - Chiropractor as expert witness.
- 8.01-401.2:1 - Podiatrist as an expert witness.
- 8.01-401.3 - Opinion testimony and conclusions as to facts critical to civil case resolution.
- 8.01-402 - Members of Department of Motor Vehicles' Crash Investigation Team not to be required to give evidence in certain cases.
- 8.01-403 - Witness proving adverse; contradiction; prior inconsistent statement.
- 8.01-404 - Contradiction by prior inconsistent writing.
- 8.01-405 - Who may administer oath to witness.
- 8.01-406 - Interpreters; recording testimony of deaf witness.
- 8.01-407 - How summons for witness issued, and to whom directed; prior permission of court to summon certain officials and judges; attendance before commissioner of other state; attorney-issued summon
- 8.01-407.1 - Identity of persons communicating anonymously over the Internet.
- 8.01-408 - Recognizance taken upon continuance of case.
- 8.01-409 - When court may have process for witness executed by its own officer in another county or city.
- 8.01-410 - Inmates as witnesses in civil actions.
- 8.01-411 - through 8.01-412.1
- 8.01-412.10 - Issuance of subpoena.
- 8.01-412.11 - Service of subpoena.
- 8.01-412.12 - Deposition, production, and inspection.
- 8.01-412.13 - Application to court.
- 8.01-412.14 - Uniformity of application and construction; reciprocal privileges.
- 8.01-412.15 - Application to pending actions.
- 8.01-412.2 - Authorization of audio-visual deposition; official record; uses.
- 8.01-412.3 - Notice of audio-visual deposition.
- 8.01-412.4 - Procedure.
- 8.01-412.5 - Costs.
- 8.01-412.6 - Promulgation of rules for standards and guidelines.
- 8.01-412.7 - Short title.
- 8.01-412.8 - Short title.
- 8.01-412.9 - Definitions.
- 8.01-413 - Certain copies of health care provider's records or papers of patient admissible; right of patient, his attorney and authorized insurer to copies of such records or papers; subpoena; da
- 8.01-413.01 - Authenticity and reasonableness of medical bills; presumption.
- 8.01-413.02 - Admissibility of written reports or records of blood alcohol tests conducted in the regular course of providing emergency medical treatment.
- 8.01-413.1 - Certain copies of employment records or papers admissible; right of employee or his attorney to copies of such records or papers; subpoena; damages, costs and attorney's fees.
- 8.01-414 - Affidavit prima facie evidence of nonresidence.
- 8.01-415 - Affidavit evidence of publication.
- 8.01-416 - Affidavit re damages to motor vehicle.
- 8.01-417 - Copies of written statements or transcriptions of verbal statements by injured person to be delivered to him; copies of subpoenaed documents to be provided to other party; disclosure of ins
- 8.01-417.1 - Use of portions of documents in evidence.
- 8.01-418 - When plea of guilty or nolo contendere or forfeiture in criminal prosecution or traffic case admissible in civil action; proof of such plea.
- 8.01-418.1 - Evidence of subsequent measures taken not admissible to prove negligence.
- 8.01-418.2 - Evidence of polygraph examination inadmissible in any proceeding.
- 8.01-418.3 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-419 - Table of life expectancy.
- 8.01-419.1 - Motor vehicle value.
- 8.01-420 - Depositions as basis for motion for summary judgment or to strike evidence.
- 8.01-420.01 - Limiting further disclosure of discoverable materials and information; protective order.
- 8.01-420.1 - Abolition of common-law perpetuation of testimony.
- 8.01-420.2 - Limitation on use of recorded conversations as evidence.
- 8.01-420.3 - Court reporters to provide transcripts; when recording may be stopped; use of transcript as evidence.
- 8.01-420.4 - Taking of depositions.
- 8.01-420.5 - Estoppel effect of judicial determination of employment status.
- 8.01-420.6 - Number of witnesses whose depositions may be taken.
- 8.01-420.7 - Attorney-client privilege and work product protection; limitations on waiver.
Chapter 15 - Payment and Setoff (8.01-421 thru 8.01-423)
- 8.01-421 - Payment may be pleaded; payment into court of part of claim; procedure upon such payment.
- 8.01-422 - Pleading equitable defenses.
- 8.01-423 - When plaintiff claims as assignee or transferee.
Chapter 16 - Compromises (8.01-424 thru 8.01-425.1)
- 8.01-424 - Approval of compromises on behalf of persons under a disability in suits or actions to which they are parties.
- 8.01-424.1 - Settlement of third-party action; deemed consent by employer.
- 8.01-425 - How fiduciaries may compromise liabilities due to or from them.
- 8.01-425.1 - Release of liability; right of rescission.
Chapter 17 - Judgments and Decrees Generally (8.01-426 thru 8.01-465)
- 8.01-426 - Judgment" includes decree.
- 8.01-427 - Persons entitled under decree deemed judgment creditors; execution on decree.
- 8.01-427.1 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-428 - Setting aside default judgments; clerical mistakes; independent actions to relieve party from judgment or proceedings; grounds and time limitations.
- 8.01-429 - Action of appellate court when there might be redress under §
- 8.01-430 - When final judgment to be entered after verdict set aside.
- 8.01-431 - Judgment or decree by confession in pending suit.
- 8.01-432 - Confession of judgment irrespective of suit pending.
- 8.01-433 - Setting aside judgments confessed under § 8.01-432.
- 8.01-433.1 - Notice of confession of judgment provision.
- 8.01-434 - Lien of such judgments.
- 8.01-435 - Who may confess judgment.
- 8.01-436 - Form of confession of judgment.
- 8.01-437 - Endorsement of clerk thereon.
- 8.01-438 - When judgment confessed by attorney-in-fact copy to be served on judgment debtor.
- 8.01-439 - Filing of records by clerk.
- 8.01-440 - Docketing and execution.
- 8.01-441 - When judgment confessed by virtue of power of attorney invalid.
- 8.01-442 - In joint actions on contract plaintiff, though barred as to some, may have judgment against others.
- 8.01-443 - Joint wrongdoers; effect of judgment against one.
- 8.01-444 - Where new parties added; if some not liable, how judgment entered.
- 8.01-445 - Distinction between term and vacation abolished; effect of time.
- 8.01-446 - Clerks to keep judgment dockets; what judgments to be docketed therein.
- 8.01-446.1 - Keeping of docket books by clerk of court using micrographic process; form.
- 8.01-447 - Docketing of judgments and decrees of United States courts.
- 8.01-448 - Attorney General, etc., to have judgments in favor of Commonwealth docketed.
- 8.01-449 - How judgments are docketed.
- 8.01-450 - How indexed.
- 8.01-451 - Judgments to be docketed and indexed in new names of judgment debtors; how execution may thereafter issue.
- 8.01-452 - Entry of assignment of judgment on judgment lien docket.
- 8.01-452.1 - Disposal of exhibits in civil cases.
- 8.01-453 - When and how payment or discharge entered on judgment docket.
- 8.01-454 - Judgment, when paid, to be so noted by creditor.
- 8.01-455 - Court, on motion of defendant, etc., may have payment of judgment entered.
- 8.01-456 - Satisfaction of judgment when judgment creditor cannot be located.
- 8.01-457 - Marking satisfied judgments for Commonwealth; payment by third parties releasing recognizances.
- 8.01-458 - From what time judgment to be a lien on real estate; docketing revived judgment.
- 8.01-459 - Priority of judgments.
- 8.01-460 - Decree for support and maintenance of spouse or infant children of parties as lien on real estate.
- 8.01-461 - Abstracts of judgments.
- 8.01-462 - Jurisdiction of equity to enforce lien of judgment; when it may decree sale.
- 8.01-463 - Enforcement of lien when judgment does not exceed twenty dollars.
- 8.01-464 - Order of liability between alienees of different parts of estate.
- 8.01-465 - Chapter embraces recognizances and bonds having force of judgment.
Chapter 17.1 - Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (8.01-465.1 thru 8.01-465.5)
- 8.01-465.1 - Application of chapter.
- 8.01-465.2 - Filing and status of foreign judgments.
- 8.01-465.3 - Notice of filing.
- 8.01-465.4 - Stay of enforcement.
- 8.01-465.5 - Optional procedure.
Chapter 17.2 - Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgments Recognition Act (8.01-465.6 thru 8.01-465.13)
- 8.01-465.10 - Judgment not conclusive; not to be recognized.
- 8.01-465.11 - Lack of personal jurisdiction.
- 8.01-465.12 - Stay of the proceedings.
- 8.01-465.13 - Situations not covered by this chapter.
- 8.01-465.6 - Title.
- 8.01-465.7 - Definitions.
- 8.01-465.8 - Application.
- 8.01-465.9 - Enforceability of a foreign country money judgment.
Chapter 17.3 - Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act (8.01-465.14 thru 8.01-465.25)
- 8.01-465.14 - Definitions.
- 8.01-465.15 - Scope.
- 8.01-465.16 - Variation by agreement.
- 8.01-465.17 - Determining money of the claim.
- 8.01-465.18 - Determining amount of the money of certain contract claims.
- 8.01-465.19 - Asserting and defending foreign-money claim.
- 8.01-465.20 - Judgments and awards on foreign-money claims; times of money conversion; form of judgment.
- 8.01-465.21 - Conversions of foreign money in distribution proceeding.
- 8.01-465.22 - Prejudgment and judgment interest.
- 8.01-465.23 - Enforcement of foreign judgments.
- 8.01-465.24 - Determining United States dollar value of foreign-money claims for limited purposes.
- 8.01-465.25 - Effect of substitution of currency by issuing authority.
Chapter 18 - Executions and Other Means of Recovery (8.01-466 thru 8.01-525)
- 8.01-466 - Clerk to issue fieri facias on judgment for money.
- 8.01-467 - What writs may not issue.
- 8.01-468 - Executions against corporations.
- 8.01-469 - Executions on joint judgments.
- 8.01-470 - Writs on judgments for specific property.
- 8.01-471 - Time period for issuing writs of possession in unlawful entry and detainer; when returnable.
- 8.01-472 - Writs on judgments for personal property.
- 8.01-473 - Judgment for benefit of other person than plaintiff; remedies of such person.
- 8.01-474 - What writ of fieri facias to command.
- 8.01-475 - Subsequent executions.
- 8.01-476 - New execution after loss of property sold under indemnifying bond.
- 8.01-477 - When executions may be quashed; how proceedings thereon stayed.
- 8.01-477.1 - Claims of exemption from execution.
- 8.01-478 - On what property writ of fieri facias levied; when lien commences.
- 8.01-479 - Time for enforcement.
- 8.01-480 - Prior security interest on property levied on.
- 8.01-481 - Territorial extent of lien.
- 8.01-482 - If levy be on coin or currency, how accounted for.
- 8.01-483 - Return of officer on fieri facias; statement filed therewith.
- 8.01-484 - When writ may be destroyed.
- 8.01-485 - When venditioni exponas may issue; proceedings thereon.
- 8.01-486 - Procedure when officer taking property under execution dies before sale.
- 8.01-487 - Officer to endorse on fieri facias time of receiving it.
- 8.01-487.1 - Officer to leave copy of writ where levy made.
- 8.01-488 - When several writs of fieri facias, how satisfied.
- 8.01-489 - Growing crops, not severed, not liable to distress or levy.
- 8.01-490 - No unreasonable distress or levy; sustenance provided for livestock; removal of property.
- 8.01-491 - Officer may break open dwelling house and levy on property in personal possession of debtor.
- 8.01-492 - Sale of property.
- 8.01-493 - Adjournment of sale.
- 8.01-494 - Resale of property if purchaser fails to comply; remedy against such purchaser.
- 8.01-495 - When money received by officer under execution to be repaid to debtor.
- 8.01-496 - Officer not required to go out of his jurisdiction to pay over money.
- 8.01-497 - Suit by officer to recover estate on which fieri facias is lien.
- 8.01-498 - Selling officers and employees not to bid or to purchase.
- 8.01-499 - Officer receiving money to make return thereof and pay net proceeds; commission, etc.
- 8.01-500 - Officer receiving money to notify person entitled to receive it.
- 8.01-501 - Lien of fieri facias on estate of debtor not capable of being levied on.
- 8.01-502 - Person paying debtor not affected by lien unless notice given.
- 8.01-502.1 - Serving notice of lien on financial institution.
- 8.01-503 - Withholding of wages or salary not required by preceding sections unless garnishment process served.
- 8.01-504 - Penalty for service of notice of lien when no judgment exists.
- 8.01-505 - When lien acquired on intangibles under § 8.01-501 ceases.
- 8.01-506 - Proceedings by interrogatories to ascertain estate of debtor; summons; proviso; objections by judgment debtor.
- 8.01-506.1 - Production of book accounts or other writing compelled.
- 8.01-506.2 - Proceedings in court of county or city where execution debtor resides.
- 8.01-507 - Conveyance or delivery of property disclosed by interrogatories.
- 8.01-507.1 - Interrogatories, answers, etc., to be returned to court.
- 8.01-508 - How debtor may be arrested and held to answer.
- 8.01-509 - Order for sale and application of debtor's estate.
- 8.01-510 - Sale, collection and disposition of debtor's estate by officer.
- 8.01-511 - Institution of garnishment proceedings.
- 8.01-511.1 - Garnishee inability to determine whether it holds property of judgment debtor.
- 8.01-512 - , .1
- 8.01-512.2 - Fee for garnishee-employers.
- 8.01-512.3 - Form of garnishment summons.
- 8.01-512.4 - Notice of exemptions from garnishment and lien.
- 8.01-512.5 - Hearing on claim of exemption from garnishment.
- 8.01-513 - Service upon corporation or limited liability company.
- 8.01-514 - When garnishment summons returnable.
- 8.01-515 - How garnishee examined; determining exemption from employee's withholding certificate; amount due pursuant to exemptions in § 34-29 (a).
- 8.01-516 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-516.1 - Garnishment dispositions.
- 8.01-517 - Exemption of portion of wages; payment of excess into court.
- 8.01-518 - When garnishee is personal representative of decedent.
- 8.01-519 - Proceedings where garnishee fails to appear or answer, or to disclose his liability.
- 8.01-520 - Payment, etc., by garnishee before return of summons.
- 8.01-521 - Judgments as to costs.
- 8.01-522 - Wages and salaries of State employees.
- 8.01-523 - Service upon federal government.
- 8.01-524 - Wages and salaries of city, town and county officials, clerks and employees.
- 8.01-525 - Who are officers and employees of cities, towns and counties.
Chapter 19 - Forthcoming Bonds (8.01-526 thru 8.01-532)
- 8.01-526 - When forthcoming bond taken; property remains in debtor's possession.
- 8.01-527 - If bond forfeited, where returned; its effect; clerk to endorse time of return.
- 8.01-528 - Liability of obligors; how recovery on bond is had.
- 8.01-529 - When bond returned, how endorsed and recorded by clerk; lien.
- 8.01-530 - Remedy of creditor if bond quashed.
- 8.01-531 - In what cases forthcoming bond not to be taken.
- 8.01-532 - How bond withdrawn from clerk's office.
Chapter 20 - Attachments and Bail in Civil Cases (8.01-533 thru 8.01-576)
- 8.01-533 - Who may sue out attachment.
- 8.01-534 - Grounds of action for pretrial levy or seizure of attachment.
- 8.01-535 - Jurisdiction of attachments; trial or hearing of issues.
- 8.01-536 - Pleadings in attachment.
- 8.01-537 - Petition for attachment; costs, fees and taxes.
- 8.01-537.1 - Plaintiff to file bond.
- 8.01-538 - Attachment of ships, boats and other vessels of more than twenty tons.
- 8.01-539 - Who made defendants.
- 8.01-540 - Issuance of attachment; against what attachment to issue.
- 8.01-541 - To whom attachments directed; when and where returned.
- 8.01-542 - Issue and execution of attachment on any day.
- 8.01-543 - Issue of other attachments on original petition.
- 8.01-544 - When attachment not served other attachments may issue; order of publication.
- 8.01-545 - Amendments; formal defects.
- 8.01-546 - What attachment to command; summons.
- 8.01-546.1 - Exemption claims form.
- 8.01-546.2 - Hearing on claim of exemption from levy or seizure.
- 8.01-547 - Attachment against remainders.
- 8.01-548 - Who may levy attachment and on what.
- 8.01-549 - Restraining order or receiver.
- 8.01-550 - How attachment levied.
- 8.01-551 - When officer to take possession of property.
- 8.01-552 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-553 - Bonds for retention of property or release of attachment; revising bonds mentioned in this and § 8.01-551.
- 8.01-554 - Where bond returned and filed; exceptions to bond.
- 8.01-555 - When appeal bond given property to be delivered to owner.
- 8.01-556 - Bonds may be given by any person.
- 8.01-557 - Lien of attachment; priority of holder in due course.
- 8.01-558 - Attachment lien on effects already in hands of officer.
- 8.01-559 - Return by officer.
- 8.01-560 - How interest and profits of property applied in certain cases.
- 8.01-561 - How property to be kept; how sold, when expensive to keep or perishable.
- 8.01-562 - Examination on oath of codefendant; order and bond.
- 8.01-563 - Principal defendant may claim exemption.
- 8.01-564 - Procedure when codefendant fails to appear.
- 8.01-565 - Suggestion that codefendant has not made full disclosure.
- 8.01-566 - Who may make defense to attachment.
- 8.01-567 - What defense may be made to attachments.
- 8.01-568 - Quashing attachment or rendering judgment for defendant.
- 8.01-569 - When petition dismissed; when retained and cause tried.
- 8.01-570 - Judgment, etc., of court when claim of plaintiff established.
- 8.01-571 - When defendant not served fails to appear plaintiff required to give bond.
- 8.01-572 - Sale of real estate attached.
- 8.01-573 - How and when claims of other persons to property tried.
- 8.01-574 - Attachments in connection with pending suits or actions.
- 8.01-575 - Rehearing permitted when judgment rendered on publication.
- 8.01-576 - Order of court on rehearing or new trial; restitution to defendant.
Chapter 20.1 - Summary Jury Trial (8.01-576.1 thru 8.01-576.3)
- 8.01-576.1 - Election by parties; order of court.
- 8.01-576.2 - Summary jury trial; selection of jury; fees.
- 8.01-576.3 - Procedures; verdict not binding unless otherwise agreed.
Chapter 20.2 - Court-Referred Dispute Resolution Proceedings (8.01-576.4 thru 8.01-576.12)
- 8.01-576.10 - Confidentiality of dispute resolution proceeding.
- 8.01-576.11 - Effect of written settlement agreement.
- 8.01-576.12 - Vacating orders and agreements.
- 8.01-576.4 - Scope and definitions.
- 8.01-576.5 - Referral of disputes to dispute resolution proceedings.
- 8.01-576.6 - Notice and opportunity to object.
- 8.01-576.7 - Costs.
- 8.01-576.8 - Qualifications of neutrals; referral.
- 8.01-576.9 - Standards and duties of neutrals; confidentiality; liability.
Chapter 21 - Arbitration and Award (8.01-577 thru 8.01-581.016)
- 8.01-577 - Submission of controversy; agreement to arbitrate; condition precedent to action.
- 8.01-578 - through 8.01-580
- 8.01-581 - Fiduciary may submit to arbitration.
- 8.01-581.01 - Validity of arbitration agreement.
- 8.01-581.010 - Vacating an award.
- 8.01-581.011 - Modification or correction of award.
- 8.01-581.012 - Judgment or decree on award.
- 8.01-581.013 - Applications to court.
- 8.01-581.014 - Court; jurisdiction.
- 8.01-581.015 - Venue.
- 8.01-581.016 - Appeals.
- 8.01-581.02 - Proceedings to compel or stay arbitration.
- 8.01-581.03 - Appointment of arbitrators by court; powers of arbitrators.
- 8.01-581.04 - Hearing.
- 8.01-581.05 - Representation by attorney.
- 8.01-581.06 - Witnesses, subpoenas, depositions.
- 8.01-581.07 - Award; fees and expenses to be fixed.
- 8.01-581.08 - Change of award by arbitrators.
- 8.01-581.09 - Confirmation of an award.
Chapter 21.1 - Medical Malpractice (8.01-581.1 thru 8.01-581.20:1)
- 8.01-581.1 - Definitions.
- 8.01-581.10 - Per diem and expenses of panel.
- 8.01-581.11 - Rules and regulations.
- 8.01-581.11:1 - Objections not waived by participation
- 8.01-581.12 - Arbitration of medical malpractice claims.
- 8.01-581.12:1 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-581.12:2 - Article not applicable to actions arising prior to July 1, 1976
- 8.01-581.13 - Civil immunity for certain health professionals and health profession students serving as members of certain entities.
- 8.01-581.14 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-581.15 - Limitation on recovery in certain medical malpractice actions.
- 8.01-581.16 - Civil immunity for members of or consultants to certain boards or committees.
- 8.01-581.17 - Privileged communications of certain committees and entities.
- 8.01-581.18 - Delivery of results of laboratory tests and other examinations not authorized by physician.
- 8.01-581.18:1 - Immunity of physicians for laboratory results and examinations.
- 8.01-581.19 - Civil immunity for physicians, psychologists, podiatrists, optometrists, veterinarians, nursing home administrators, and certified emergency services personnel while members of certain c
- 8.01-581.19:1 - Civil immunity for persons providing information to certain committees
- 8.01-581.2 - Request for review by medical malpractice review panel; rescission of request; determination on request.
- 8.01-581.2:1 - Additional parties
- 8.01-581.20 - Standard of care in proceeding before medical malpractice review panel; expert testimony; determination of standard in action for damages.
- 8.01-581.20:1 - Admissibility of expressions of sympathy
- 8.01-581.3 - Composition, selection, etc., of panel.
- 8.01-581.3:1 - Completion of discovery; hearing date; notification to parties and panel members; oath of panel mem...
- 8.01-581.4 - Submission of evidence to panel; depositions and discovery; duties of chairman; access to material.
- 8.01-581.4:1 - Assembly of record
- 8.01-581.4:2 - Removal of record for inspection and copying; notice
- 8.01-581.5 - When hearing to be held; notice to parties.
- 8.01-581.6 - Conduct of proceedings.
- 8.01-581.7 - Opinion of panel.
- 8.01-581.7:1 - Limitation on panel opinion
- 8.01-581.8 - Admissibility of opinion as evidence; appearance of panel members as witnesses; immunity from civil liability.
- 8.01-581.9 - Description unavailable
Chapter 21.2 - Mediation (8.01-581.21 thru 8.01-581.26)
- 8.01-581.21 - Definitions.
- 8.01-581.22 - Confidentiality; exceptions.
- 8.01-581.23 - Civil immunity.
- 8.01-581.24 - Standards and duties of mediators; confidentiality; liability.
- 8.01-581.25 - Effect of written settlement agreement.
- 8.01-581.26 - Vacating orders and agreements.
Chapter 22 - Receivers, General and Special (8.01-582 thru 8.01-606)
- 8.01-582 - Appointment of general receivers; their duties; audit of funds.
- 8.01-583 - How securities taken and kept; power of receivers over same.
- 8.01-584 - How dividends and interest collected and invested.
- 8.01-585 - How accounts kept by receivers.
- 8.01-586 - Inquiry as to unknown owners of funds.
- 8.01-587 - Liability of general receivers.
- 8.01-588 - Bonds generally.
- 8.01-588.1 - Bonds apportioned to funds under control; annual reports.
- 8.01-589 - Compensation and fees; when none allowed.
- 8.01-590 - Penalty for failure of duty.
- 8.01-591 - Notice required prior to appointment of receiver.
- 8.01-592 - Notice not required in emergencies.
- 8.01-593 - Subsequent proceedings after emergency appointment.
- 8.01-594 - Notice not required to parties served with process.
- 8.01-595 - Preparation of list of creditors; notice to them.
- 8.01-596 - No sale prior to such notification; exceptions.
- 8.01-597 - Suits against receivers in certain cases.
- 8.01-598 - Effect of judgment against receiver.
- 8.01-599 - Warrant or motion for judgment against receiver in general district court, when to be tried.
- 8.01-600 - How money under control of court deposited; record kept; liability of clerk.
- 8.01-600.1 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-601 - Deposit with general receiver of certain funds under supervision of fiduciary and belonging to person under disability.
- 8.01-602 - Proceedings when owner of money under control of court unknown.
- 8.01-603 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-604 - How State Treasurer to keep account of such money.
- 8.01-605 - How person entitled to money paid into state treasury may recover it.
- 8.01-606 - Payment of small amounts to certain persons through court without intervention of fiduciary; authority of commissioners of accounts; certain fiduciaries exempt from accountings.
Chapter 23 - Commissioners in Chancery (8.01-607 thru 8.01-619)
- 8.01-607 - Appointment and removal.
- 8.01-608 - How accounts referred.
- 8.01-609 - Duties; procedure generally.
- 8.01-609.1 - Commissioners in chancery.
- 8.01-610 - Weight to be given commissioner's report.
- 8.01-611 - Notice of time and place of taking account.
- 8.01-612 - Commissioner may summons witnesses.
- 8.01-613 - Commissioner may ask instructions of court.
- 8.01-614 - His power to adjourn his proceedings.
- 8.01-615 - When cause heard on report; time for filing exceptions.
- 8.01-616 - Delivery of original papers of suit by clerk to commissioner.
- 8.01-617 - Settlement of accounts of special receivers and special commissioners.
- 8.01-618 - Reports of such settlements; when new bond required.
- 8.01-618.1 - Fees of special receivers and commissioners for reports.
- 8.01-619 - Recordation of reports of such settlements.
Chapter 24 - Injunctions (8.01-620 thru 8.01-634)
- 8.01-620 - General jurisdiction of circuit court to award injunctions.
- 8.01-621 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-622 - Injunction to protect plaintiff in suit for specific property.
- 8.01-622.1 - Injunction against assisted suicide; damages; professional sanctions.
- 8.01-623 - Injunction against decree subject to bill of review; limitations to bill of review.
- 8.01-624 - Duration of temporary injunctions to be fixed therein.
- 8.01-625 - Dissolution of injunctions.
- 8.01-626 - When court grants or refuses injunction, justice of Supreme Court or judge of Court of Appeals may review it.
- 8.01-627 - To what clerk order for injunction directed.
- 8.01-628 - Equity of prayer for temporary injunction to be shown by affidavit or otherwise.
- 8.01-629 - Notice required.
- 8.01-630 - Forthcoming bond in connection with injunction against removal of property.
- 8.01-631 - Injunction bond.
- 8.01-631.1 - Environmental injunction; financial capacity.
- 8.01-632 - How surety in forthcoming bond may obtain additional security.
- 8.01-633 - Damages on dissolution.
- 8.01-634 - Dismissal of injunction bill.
Chapter 25 - Extraordinary Writs (8.01-635 thru 8.01-668)
- 8.01-635 - Common-law writ of quo warranto and information in the nature of writ of quo warranto abolished; statutory writ of quo warranto established.
- 8.01-636 - In what cases writ issued.
- 8.01-637 - By whom filed; when leave granted and writ issued.
- 8.01-638 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-639 - How summons directed and served.
- 8.01-640 - Judgment when defendant fails to appear.
- 8.01-641 - Reopening same when made on service by publication.
- 8.01-642 - Pleading when defendant appears.
- 8.01-643 - Trial; verdict; judgment; costs; attorney's fee.
- 8.01-644 - Application for mandamus or prohibition.
- 8.01-644.1 - Limitations of actions for petition for mandamus.
- 8.01-645 - What petition to state; where presented.
- 8.01-646 - When writ awarded if no defense made.
- 8.01-647 - Defense; how made.
- 8.01-648 - What judgment to be rendered.
- 8.01-649 - Proceedings when application is to Supreme Court or Court of Appeals.
- 8.01-650 - Suspension of proceedings, where prohibition applied for.
- 8.01-651 - Suspension of proceedings by justice of Supreme Court or judge of Court of Appeals.
- 8.01-652 - Service of writ; how obedience enforced.
- 8.01-653 - Mandamus to secure construction of act directing payment out of treasury of the Commonwealth.
- 8.01-653.1 - Mandamus to secure construction of act granting power to incur certain obligations for transportation needs.
- 8.01-654 - When and by whom writ granted; what petition to contain.
- 8.01-654.1 - Limitation on consideration of petition filed by prisoner sentenced to death.
- 8.01-654.2 - Presentation of claim of mental retardation by person sentenced to death before April 29, 2003.
- 8.01-655 - Form and contents of petition filed by prisoner.
- 8.01-656 - Bond may be required of petitioner.
- 8.01-657 - How directed and returnable.
- 8.01-658 - How writ served.
- 8.01-659 - Penalty for disobeying it.
- 8.01-660 - When affidavits may be read.
- 8.01-661 - Facts proved may be made part of record.
- 8.01-662 - Judgment of court or judge trying it; payment of costs and expenses when petition denied.
- 8.01-663 - Judgment conclusive.
- 8.01-664 - How and when Supreme Court summoned to try appeal therefrom.
- 8.01-665 - When execution of judgment suspended; when prisoner admitted to bail.
- 8.01-666 - When and by whom writs of habeas corpus ad testificandum granted.
- 8.01-667 - Transmission of records to federal court.
- 8.01-668 - Writ de homine abolished.
Chapter 26 - Appeals to the Supreme Court (8.01-669 thru 8.01-675.2)
- 8.01-669 - Definitions.
- 8.01-670 - In what cases awarded.
- 8.01-670.1 - Appeal of interlocutory orders and decrees by permission.
- 8.01-671 - Time within which petition must be presented.
- 8.01-672 - Jurisdictional amount.
- 8.01-673 - Inspection and return of records; certiorari when part of record is omitted; binding or retention of records.
- 8.01-674 - With whom filed; endorsement thereon; reference to justice or justices; when deemed to be filed.
- 8.01-675 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-675.1 - When dismissal final; when reinstated.
- 8.01-675.2 - Rehearing.
Chapter 26.1 - Appeals to the Court of Appeals (8.01-675.3 thru 8.01-675.4)
- 8.01-675.3 - Time within which appeal must be taken; notice.
- 8.01-675.4 - Inspection and return of records; certiorari when part of record is omitted; retention of records.
Chapter 26.2 - Appeals Generally (8.01-676 thru 8.01-688)
- 8.01-676 - Description unavailable
- 8.01-676.1 - Security for appeal.
- 8.01-677 - Errors corrected on motion instead of writ of error coram vobis.
- 8.01-677.1 - Appeals filed in inappropriate appellate court.
- 8.01-678 - For what a judgment not to be reversed.
- 8.01-679 - Failure of trial court clerk to deliver record to appellate court.
- 8.01-679.1 - Arguments made on brief not waived by oral argument.
- 8.01-680 - When judgment of trial court not to be set aside unless plainly wrong, etc.
- 8.01-681 - Decision of appellate court.
- 8.01-682 - What damages awarded appellee.
- 8.01-683 - When Clerk of Supreme Court to transmit its decisions.
- 8.01-684 - Copies of Court's opinions to be furnished to counsel.
- 8.01-685 - Entry of decision in lower court; issue of execution thereon.
- 8.01-686 - , 8.01-687
- 8.01-688 - Order books, etc., of former district courts in custody of Clerk of Supreme Court, etc.
Chapter 27 - Virginia Prisoner Litigation Reform Act (8.01-689 thru 8.01-697)
- 8.01-689 - Short title.
- 8.01-690 - Applicability provisions.
- 8.01-691 - Payment of filing fees and costs by prisoners; when in forma pauperis status granted.
- 8.01-692 - When in forma pauperis status denied.
- 8.01-693 - Venue of prisoner actions.
- 8.01-694 - Service of process; time for response.
- 8.01-695 - When argument held; when discovery permitted.
- 8.01-696 - Summary judgment; pro se prisoner civil action.
- 8.01-697 - Access to Department of Corrections records.