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2014 Virginia Code
Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure
§ 8.01-45. Action for insulting words
VA Code § 8.01-45 (2014) What's This?
All words shall be actionable which from their usual construction and common acceptance are construed as insults and tend to violence and breach of the peace.
Code 1950, ยง 8-630; 1977, c. 617.
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