2006 Code of Virginia § 8.01-45 - Action for insulting words

8.01-45. Action for insulting words.

All words shall be actionable which from their usual construction and commonacceptance are construed as insults and tend to violence and breach of thepeace.

(Code 1950, 8-630; 1977, c. 617.)

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