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2006 Code of Virginia - Chapter 3 - Actions
- 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 clai...
- 8.01-29 - Procedure in actions on annuity and installment bonds, and other actions for penalties for nonperfo...
- 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 inju...
- 8.01-40 - Unauthorized use of name or picture of any person; exemplary damages; statute of limitation...
- 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
- 8.01-66.2 - 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 inju...
- 8.01-66.9:1 - Lien against recovery for medical treatment provided to prisoner
- 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
- 8.01-67 - 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 right...
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 sal...
- 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 file...
- 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 o...
- 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, clerk or judge of a general district cour...
- 8.01-127 - Removal of action
- 8.01-127.1 - Removal of unlawful detainer actions
- 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 o...
- 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 relinq...
- 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 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
- 8.01-195.2 - 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 localit...
- 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
- 8.01-195.10 - Purpose; action by the General Assembly required; definitions
- 8.01-195.11 - Compensation for wrongful incarceration
- 8.01-195.12 - Conditions for continued compensation
- 8.01-196 - 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
- 8.01-216.2 - 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
- 8.01-216.10 - 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
- 8.01-217 - 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 abolishe...
- 8.01-220.1 - Defense of interspousal immunity abolished as to certain causes of action arising on or after July ...
- 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 emergency 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 - Notice to be given cities and towns of claims for damages for negligence
- 8.01-223 - Lack of privity no defense in certain cases
- 8.01-223.1 - Use of constitutional rights
- 8.01-224 - Defense of governmental immunity not available to certain persons in actions for damages from blast...
- 8.01-225 - (Effective until January 1, 2007 - see Editor's notes) Persons rendering emergency care, obstetric...
- 8.01-225.01 - Certain immunity for health care providers during man-made disasters under specific circumstance...
- 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
- 8.01-226.2 - Civil immunity for licensed professional engineers and licensed architects participating in rescue ...
- 8.01-226.3 - Civil immunity for officers, directors and members of certain crime information-gathering organizat...
- 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 - "Year 2000" civil immunity for certain governmental officers and employees
- 8.01-226.7 - Owner and agent compliance with residential lead-based paint notification; maintenance immunit...
- 8.01-226.8 - Civil immunity for public officials and private volunteers participating in roadway litter pick-up ...
- 8.01-226.9 - Exemption from civil liability in connection with arrest or detention of person suspected of shopli...
- 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.
- 8.01-227 - Remedy by motion on certain bonds given or taken by officers; notice
- 8.01-227.1 - Purpose
- 8.01-227.2 - Definitions
- 8.01-227.3 - Liability and damages limited
- 8.01-227.4 - Definitions
- 8.01-227.5 - Persons who may bring action; persons against whom actions may be brought; damages recoverabl...
- 8.01-227.6 - Law-enforcement officer or agency; health care provider not liable under certain condition...
- 8.01-227.7 - Statute of limitations
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