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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure
Chapter 2 - Parties
§ 8.01-12. Suit by beneficial owner when legal title in another
Universal Citation: VA Code § 8.01-12 (2019)
When the legal title to any claim or chose in action, for the enforcement of the collection of which a court of equity has jurisdiction, is in one person and the beneficial equitable title thereto is in another, the latter may either maintain a suit in the name of the holder of the legal title for his use and benefit or in his own name to enforce collection of the same. In either case the beneficial equitable owner shall be deemed the real plaintiff and shall be liable for costs.
Code 1950, ยง 8-93.1; 1977, c. 617.
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