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Title 8.01 CIVIL REMEDIES AND PROCEDURE.
Chapter 3 Actions (8.01-25 thru 8.01-227.10)
- 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 or clerk or judge of a general district cour...
- 8.01-127 , 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 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 or condemnation jurors to determine compensation for property taken or damage...
- 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; waiver of sovereign immunit...
- 8.01-216.9 Procedure; statute of limitations
- 8.01-216.10 Civil investigative demands; issuance; sharing information
- 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 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 blast...
- 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
- 8.01-226.2 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 Description unavailable
- 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 certain programs for pr...
- 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.
- 8.01-226.12 Duty of landlord and managing agent with respect to visible mold.
- 8.01-227 Remedy by motion on certain bonds given or taken by officers; notice
- 8.01-227.1 through 8.01-227.3
- 8.01-227.4 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
- 8.01-227.8 Definitions.
- 8.01-227.9 Civil immunity for space flight entities.
- 8.01-227.10 Warning required.
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