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Section
8.01-25
Survival of causes of action
Section
8.01-26
Assignment of causes of action
Section
8.01-27
Civil action on note or writing promising to pay money
Section
8.01-27.1
Additional recovery in certain civil actions concerning checks or rejected electronic funds transfers
Section
8.01-27.2
Civil recovery for giving bad check
Section
8.01-27.3
Evidence in actions regarding issuance of bad check
Section
8.01-27.4
Civil recovery for professional services
Section
8.01-27.5
Duty of in-network providers to submit claims to health insurers; liability of covered patients for unbilled health care services
Section
8.01-28
When judgment to be given in action upon contract or note unless defendant appears and denies claim under oath
Section
8.01-29
Procedure in actions on annuity and installment bonds, and other actions for penalties for nonperformance
Section
8.01-30
Procedure in actions on contracts made by several persons
Section
8.01-31
Accounting in equity
Section
8.01-32
Action on lost evidences of debt
Section
8.01-33
Equitable relief in certain cases
Section
8.01-34
When contribution among wrongdoers enforced
Section
8.01-35
Damages for loss of income not diminished by reimbursement
Section
8.01-35.1
Effect of release or covenant not to sue in respect to liability and contribution
Section
8.01-36
(Effective until January 1, 2022) Joinder of action of tort to infant with action for recovery of expenses incurred thereby and claim for recovery of expenses by infant
Section
8.01-36
(Effective January 1, 2022) Joinder of action of tort to infant with action for recovery of expenses incurred thereby and claim for recovery of expenses by infant
Section
8.01-37
Recovery of lost wages in action for injuries to emancipated infant
Section
8.01-37.1
Claims for medical services provided by United States; proof of reasonable value
Section
8.01-38
Tort liability of hospitals
Section
8.01-38.1
Limitation on recovery of punitive damages
Section
8.01-39
Completion or acceptance of work not bar to action against independent contractor for personal injury, wrongful death or damage to property
Section
8.01-40
Unauthorized use of name or picture of any person; punitive damages; statute of limitations
Section
8.01-40.1
Action for injury resulting from violation of Computer Crimes Act; limitations
Section
8.01-40.2
Unsolicited transmission of advertising materials by facsimile machine
Section
8.01-40.3
Unauthorized dissemination, etc., of criminal history record information; civil action
Section
8.01-40.4
Civil action for unlawful creation of image of another or unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another
Section
8.01-41
Wrongful distraint, attachment
Section
8.01-42
Loss or injury to clothing in dyeing, dry cleaning, or laundering
Section
8.01-42.1
Civil action for racial, religious, or ethnic harassment, violence or vandalism
Section
8.01-42.2
Liability of guest for hotel damage
Section
8.01-42.3
Civil action for stalking
Section
8.01-42.4
Civil action for trafficking in persons
Section
8.01-42.5
Civil action for female genital mutilation
Section
8.01-43
Action against parent for damage to public property by minor
Section
8.01-44
Action against parent for damage to private property by minor
Section
8.01-44.1
Immunity from civil liability of members of certain committees, etc.
Section
8.01-44.2
Action against physician for vaccine-related injury or death
Section
8.01-44.3
Divulgence of communications by qualified interpreters and communications assistants
Section
8.01-44.4
Action for shoplifting and employee theft
Section
8.01-44.5
Punitive damages for persons injured by intoxicated drivers
Section
8.01-44.6
Action for injury to cemetery property
Section
8.01-44.7
Action for tampering with metering device and diverting service
Section
8.01-45
Action for insulting words
Section
8.01-46
Justification and mitigation of damages
Section
8.01-46.1
Disclosure of employment-related information; presumptions; causes of action; definitions
Section
8.01-47
Immunity of persons investigating or reporting certain incidents at schools
Section
8.01-48
Mitigation in actions against newspapers, etc.
Section
8.01-49
Defamatory statements in radio and television broadcasts
Section
8.01-49.1
Liability for defamatory material on the Internet
Section
8.01-50
Action for death by wrongful act; how and when to be brought
Section
8.01-50.1
Certification of expert witness opinion at time of service of process
Section
8.01-51
No action when deceased has compromised claim
Section
8.01-52
Amount of damages
Section
8.01-52.1
Admissibility of expressions of sympathy
Section
8.01-53
Class and beneficiaries; when determined
Section
8.01-54
Judgment to distribute recovery when verdict fails to do so
Section
8.01-55
Compromise of claim for death by wrongful act
Section
8.01-56
When right of action not to determine nor action to abate
Section
8.01-57
Liability of railroads for injury to certain employees
Section
8.01-58
Contributory negligence no bar to recovery; violation of safety appliance acts
Section
8.01-59
Assumption of risk; violation of safety appliance acts
Section
8.01-60
Contracts exempting from liability void; set-off of insurance
Section
8.01-61
Definition of "common carrier" as used in article
Section
8.01-62
Action may embrace liability under both State and federal acts
Section
8.01-63
Liability for death or injury to guest in motor vehicle
Section
8.01-64
Liability for negligence of minor
Section
8.01-65
Defense of lack of consent of owner
Section
8.01-66
Recovery of damages for loss of use of vehicle
Section
8.01-66.1
Remedy for arbitrary refusal of motor vehicle insurance claim
Section
8.01-66.1
1. (For January 1, 2016, applicability date, see Editor's note) Subrogation claims by underinsured motorist benefits insurer
Section
8.01-66.2
Lien against person whose negligence causes injury
Section
8.01-66.3
Lien inferior to claim of attorney or personal representative
Section
8.01-66.4
Subrogation
Section
8.01-66.5
Written notice required
Section
8.01-66.6
Liability for reasonable charges for services
Section
8.01-66.7
Hearing and disposal of claim of unreasonableness
Section
8.01-66.8
Petition to enforce lien
Section
8.01-66.9
Lien in favor of Commonwealth, its programs, institutions or departments on claim for personal injuries
Section
8.01-66.9
1. Lien against recovery for medical treatment provided to prisoner
Section
8.01-66.10
Death claims settled by compromise or suit
Section
8.01-66.11
Necessity for settlement or judgment
Section
8.01-66.12
Term physician to include chiropractor
Section
8.01-67
Definitions; persons under a disability; fiduciary
Section
8.01-68
Jurisdiction
Section
8.01-69
Commencement of suit; parties
Section
8.01-70
Repealed
Section
8.01-72
When death to abate such suit
Section
8.01-73
Guardian ad litem to be appointed
Section
8.01-74
Leases on behalf of persons under disability; new leases
Section
8.01-75
Who not to be purchaser
Section
8.01-76
How proceeds from disposition to be secured and applied; when same may be paid over
Section
8.01-77
What proceeds of sale to pass as real estate
Section
8.01-78
Alternate procedure for sale of real estate of person under disability
Section
8.01-79
Same; reference of petition to commissioner
Section
8.01-80
Same; action of court on report; application of proceeds of transaction
Section
8.01-81
Who may compel partition of land; jurisdiction; validation of certain partitions of mineral rights; when shares of two or more laid off together
Section
8.01-81.1
Determination of value
Section
8.01-82
Repealed
Section
8.01-83
Allotment to one or more parties, or sale, in lieu of partition
Section
8.01-83.1
Open-market sale, sealed bids, or auction
Section
8.01-83.2
Notice by posting
Section
8.01-83.3
Commissioners
Section
8.01-84
Application of proceeds of sale to payment of lien
Section
8.01-85
Disposition of share in proceeds of person under disability
Section
8.01-86
Repealed
Section
8.01-87
Validation of certain partitions prior to act of 1922
Section
8.01-88
Decree of partition to vest legal title
Section
8.01-89
When proceeds of sale deemed personal estate
Section
8.01-90
When name or share of parties unknown
Section
8.01-91
Effect of partition or sale on lessee's rights
Section
8.01-92
Allowance of attorneys' fees out of unrepresented shares
Section
8.01-93
Partition of goods, etc., by sale, if necessary
Section
8.01-94
When sold, leased or exchanged
Section
8.01-95
Procedure in such case
Section
8.01-96
Decree for sale; how made; bond of commissioner
Section
8.01-97
Delinquent taxes to be ascertained
Section
8.01-98
Sales of land when purchase price insufficient to pay taxes, etc.
Section
8.01-99
Bond required of special commissioner for sale
Section
8.01-100
Liability of clerk for false certificate or failure to give bond
Section
8.01-101
Purchasers relieved of liability for purchase money paid to such commissioner
Section
8.01-102
Purchasers not required to see to application of purchase money
Section
8.01-103
Special commissioner or other person appointed to do so to receive purchase money, etc.; liability of clerk for failure to give notice of appointment
Section
8.01-104
Repealed
Section
8.01-105
Rule against special commissioner, purchaser, etc., for judgment for amounts due
Section
8.01-106
How cause heard upon rule and judgment rendered
Section
8.01-107
Trial by jury of issues made upon rule
Section
8.01-108
When sureties of commissioner, purchaser, etc., proceeded against by rule
Section
8.01-109
Commission for selling, collecting, etc.; each piece of property to constitute separate sale
Section
8.01-110
Appointment of special commissioner to execute deed, etc.; effect of deed
Section
8.01-111
What such deed to show
Section
8.01-112
Reinstatement of cause to appoint special commissioner to make deed
Section
8.01-113
When title of purchaser at judicial sale not to be disturbed
Section
8.01-114
When property to be taken by officer; summary of evidence, affidavits and report to be filed
Section
8.01-115
Bond required as prerequisite
Section
8.01-116
Return of property to defendant or other claimant
Section
8.01-117
Exceptions to sufficiency of bonds
Section
8.01-118
Repealed
Section
8.01-119
Hearing to review issuance of order or process under § 8.01-114 or to consider request for such order or process
Section
8.01-120
No verdict as to some items; omission of price or value
Section
8.01-121
Final judgment
Section
8.01-122
Charges for keeping property
Section
8.01-123
Recovery of damages sustained for property withheld during appeal
Section
8.01-124
Motion for judgment in circuit court for unlawful entry or detainer
Section
8.01-125
When summons returnable to circuit court; jury
Section
8.01-126
Summons for unlawful detainer issued by magistrate or clerk or judge of a general district court
Section
8.01-127
Repealed
Section
8.01-128
Verdict and judgment; damages
Section
8.01-129
Appeal from judgment of general district court
Section
8.01-130
Judgment not to bar action of trespass, ejectment, or unlawful detainer
Section
8.01-130.01
(Effective January 1, 2022) Unlawful detainer; expungement
Section
8.01-130.1
Remedy for rent and for use and occupation
Section
8.01-130.2
Who may recover rent or compensation
Section
8.01-130.3
Who is liable for rent
Section
8.01-130.4
When and by whom distress made
Section
8.01-130.5
Procedure for trial on warrant in distress
Section
8.01-130.6
On what goods levied; to what extent goods liable; priorities between landlord and other lienors
Section
8.01-130.7
Procedure when distress levied and tenant unable to give forthcoming bond; what defense may be made
Section
8.01-130.8
Review of decision to issue ex parte order or process; claim of exemption
Section
8.01-130.9
On what terms purchasers and lienors inferior to landlord may remove goods; certain liens not affected
Section
8.01-130.10
When goods of a sublessee may be removed from leased premises
Section
8.01-130.11
When officer may enter by force to levy distress or attachment
Section
8.01-130.12
When distress not unlawful because of irregularity, etc.
Section
8.01-130.13
Return of execution; process of sale thereunder
Section
8.01-131
Action of ejectment retained; when and by whom brought
Section
8.01-132
What interest and right plaintiff must have
Section
8.01-133
Who shall be defendants; when and how landlord may defend
Section
8.01-134
How action commenced and prosecuted
Section
8.01-135
What is to be stated in motion for judgment
Section
8.01-136
How premises described
Section
8.01-137
Plaintiff to state how he claims
Section
8.01-138
There may be several counts and several plaintiffs
Section
8.01-139
What proof by plaintiff is sufficient
Section
8.01-140
Effect of reservation in deed; burden of proof
Section
8.01-141
When action by cotenants, etc., against cotenants, what plaintiff to prove
Section
8.01-142
Verdict when action against several defendants
Section
8.01-143
When there may be several judgments against defendants
Section
8.01-144
Recovery of part of premises claimed
Section
8.01-145
When possession of part not possession of whole
Section
8.01-146
When vendee, etc., entitled to conveyance of legal title, vendor cannot recover
Section
8.01-147
When mortgagee or trustee not to recover
Section
8.01-148
Right of defendant to resort to equity not affected
Section
8.01-149
Verdict when jury finds for plaintiffs or any of them
Section
8.01-150
Verdict when any plaintiff has no right
Section
8.01-151
How verdict to specify premises recovered
Section
8.01-152
How verdict to specify undivided interest or share
Section
8.01-153
Verdict to specify estate of plaintiff
Section
8.01-154
When right of plaintiff expires before trial, what judgment entered
Section
8.01-155
How judgment for plaintiff entered
Section
8.01-156
Authority of sheriffs, etc., to store and sell personal property removed from premises; recovery of possession by owner; disposition or sale
Section
8.01-157
Repealed
Section
8.01-158
How claim of plaintiff for profits and damages assessed
Section
8.01-159
When court to assess damages
Section
8.01-160
Defendant to give notice of claim for improvements
Section
8.01-161
How allowed
Section
8.01-162
Postponement of assessment and allowance
Section
8.01-163
Judgment to be conclusive
Section
8.01-164
Recovery of mesne profits, etc., not affected
Section
8.01-165
Writ of right, etc., abolished
Section
8.01-166
How defendant may apply therefor, and have judgment suspended
Section
8.01-167
How damages of plaintiff assessed
Section
8.01-168
For what time
Section
8.01-169
How value of improvements determined in favor of defendant
Section
8.01-170
If allowance for improvements exceed damages, what to be done
Section
8.01-171
Verdict for balance, after offsetting damages against improvements
Section
8.01-172
Balance for defendant a lien on the land
Section
8.01-173
How tenant for life, paying for improvements, reimbursed
Section
8.01-174
Exception as to mortgagees and trustees
Section
8.01-175
When plaintiff may require his estate only to be valued; how determined; how he may elect to relinquish his title to defendant
Section
8.01-176
How payment of such value to be made by defendant; when land sold therefor
Section
8.01-177
When such value to be deemed real estate
Section
8.01-178
When and how defendant, if evicted, may recover from plaintiff amount paid
Section
8.01-178.1
Waste; who is liable
Section
8.01-178.2
Civil action for waste; double damages
Section
8.01-178.3
Waste for tenant to sell or remove manure from leased premises
Section
8.01-178.4
Waste committed during pendency of action
Section
8.01-179
Motion for judgment to establish boundary lines
Section
8.01-180
Parties defendant; pleadings
Section
8.01-181
Surveys
Section
8.01-182
Claims to rents, etc., not considered
Section
8.01-183
Recordation and effect of judgment
Section
8.01-184
Power to issue declaratory judgments
Section
8.01-184.1
Declaratory judgment to adjudicate constitutional nexus
Section
8.01-185
Venue
Section
8.01-186
Further relief
Section
8.01-187
Commissioners or condemnation jurors to determine compensation for property taken or damaged
Section
8.01-188
Jury trial
Section
8.01-189
Injunction
Section
8.01-190
Costs
Section
8.01-191
Construction of article
Section
8.01-192
How claims to be prosecuted
Section
8.01-193
Defense and hearing
Section
8.01-194
Jury may be impaneled; judgment
Section
8.01-195
No judgment to be paid without special appropriation
Section
8.01-195.1
Short title
Section
8.01-195.2
Definitions
Section
8.01-195.3
Commonwealth, transportation district or locality liable for damages in certain cases
Section
8.01-195.4
Jurisdiction of claims under this article; right to jury trial; service on Commonwealth or locality; amending amount of claim
Section
8.01-195.5
Settlement of certain cases
Section
8.01-195.6
Notice of claim
Section
8.01-195.7
Statute of limitations
Section
8.01-195.8
Release of further claims
Section
8.01-195.9
Claims evaluation program
Section
8.01-195.10
Purpose; action by the General Assembly required; definitions
Section
8.01-195.11
Compensation for wrongful incarceration
Section
8.01-195.12
Conditions for continued compensation
Section
8.01-195.13
Compensation for certain intentional acts
Section
8.01-196
Comptroller to institute proceedings
Section
8.01-197
In what name; when not to abate
Section
8.01-198
Action, against whom instituted
Section
8.01-199
Judgment, nature of
Section
8.01-200
Mistakes against State corrected
Section
8.01-201
Execution; real estate to be sold
Section
8.01-202
Execution, to whom issued
Section
8.01-203
Goods and chattels liable before real estate
Section
8.01-204
Notice of sale of real estate; when sale to be made
Section
8.01-205
How sale made
Section
8.01-206
Terms of sale
Section
8.01-207
Who to collect purchase money and make deed; disposition of proceeds of sale
Section
8.01-208
When successor of officer to make deed
Section
8.01-209
Bond for purchase money to have force of judgment
Section
8.01-210
Judgment against deceased obligors
Section
8.01-211
When venditioni exponas issued to sheriff of adjacent county; what to contain
Section
8.01-212
Officer to deliver to sheriff goods and chattels levied on
Section
8.01-213
Where same to be sold
Section
8.01-214
Where real estate to be sold
Section
8.01-215
Return of officer when sale not made because of prior encumbrance
Section
8.01-216
Comptroller's power to adjust old claims
Section
8.01-216.1
Citation
Section
8.01-216.2
Definitions
Section
8.01-216.3
False claims; civil penalty
Section
8.01-216.4
Attorney General; investigation, civil action
Section
8.01-216.5
Civil actions filed by private persons; Commonwealth may intervene
Section
8.01-216.6
Rights of private plaintiff and Commonwealth
Section
8.01-216.7
Award to private plaintiff
Section
8.01-216.8
Certain actions barred; relief from employment discrimination; waiver of sovereign immunity
Section
8.01-216.9
Procedure; statute of limitations
Section
8.01-216.10
Civil investigative demands; issuance; sharing information
Section
8.01-216.11
Civil investigative demands; contents and deadlines
Section
8.01-216.12
Civil investigative demands; protected material or information
Section
8.01-216.13
Civil investigative demands; service and jurisdiction
Section
8.01-216.14
Civil investigative demands; documentary material
Section
8.01-216.15
Civil investigative demands; interrogatories
Section
8.01-216.16
Civil investigative demands; oral examinations
Section
8.01-216.17
Civil investigative demands; custodian of documents; answers
Section
8.01-216.18
Civil investigative demands; judicial proceedings for noncompliance
Section
8.01-216.19
Application of the Rules of the Supreme Court
Section
8.01-217
How name of person may be changed
Section
8.01-218
Replevin abolished
Section
8.01-219
Effect of judgment in trover
Section
8.01-219.1
Responsibility of possessor of real property for harm to trespasser
Section
8.01-220
Action for alienation of affection, breach of promise, criminal conversation and seduction abolished
Section
8.01-220.1
Defense of interspousal immunity abolished as to certain causes of action arising on or after July 1, 1981
Section
8.01-220.1
1. Civil immunity for officers, partners, members, managers, trustees and directors of certain tax exempt organizations
Section
8.01-220.1
2. Civil immunity for teachers under certain circumstances
Section
8.01-220.1
3. Immunity for members of church, synagogue or religious body
Section
8.01-220.1
4. Civil immunity for officers and directors of certain nonprofit organizations
Section
8.01-220.1
5. Defense of intra-family immunity abolished for wrongful death actions
Section
8.01-220.2
Spousal liability for medical care
Section
8.01-221
Damages from violation of statute, remedy therefor and penalty
Section
8.01-221.1
Unestablished business damages; lost profits
Section
8.01-221.2
Rescission; undue influence; attorney fees
Section
8.01-222
Repealed
Section
8.01-223
Lack of privity no defense in certain cases
Section
8.01-223.1
Use of constitutional rights
Section
8.01-223.2
Immunity of persons for statements made at public hearing or communicated to third party
Section
8.01-224
Defense of governmental immunity not available to certain persons in actions for damages from blasting, etc.
Section
8.01-225
(Effective until January 1, 2022) Persons rendering emergency care, obstetrical services exempt from liability
Section
8.01-225
(Effective January 1, 2022, until July 1, 2022) Persons rendering emergency care, obstetrical services exempt from liability
Section
8.01-225
(Effective July 1, 2022) Persons rendering emergency care, obstetrical services exempt from liability
Section
8.01-225.01
Certain immunity for health care providers during disasters under specific circumstances
Section
8.01-225.02
Certain liability protection for health care providers during disasters
Section
8.01-225.03
Certain immunity for certain hospices, home care organizations, private providers, assisted living facilities, and adult day care centers during a disaster under specific circumstances
Section
8.01-225.1
Immunity for team physicians
Section
8.01-225.2
Immunity for those rendering emergency care to animals
Section
8.01-225.3
Immunity for volunteer first responders en route to an emergency
Section
8.01-226
Duty of care to law-enforcement officers, firefighters, etc.
Section
8.01-226.1
Civil immunity when participating in Lawyers Helping Lawyers
Section
8.01-226.2
Civil immunity for licensed professional engineers and licensed architects participating in rescue or relief assistance
Section
8.01-226.3
Civil immunity for officers, directors and members of certain crime information-gathering organizations
Section
8.01-226.4
Civil immunity for hospice volunteers
Section
8.01-226.5
Immunity for installers and inspectors of child restraint devices
Section
8.01-226.5
1. Civil immunity for school board employees supervising self-administration of certain medication
Section
8.01-226.5
2. Immunity of hospital and emergency medical services agency personnel for the acceptance of certain infants
Section
8.01-226.6
Repealed
Section
8.01-226.7
Owner and agent compliance with residential lead-based paint notification; maintenance immunity
Section
8.01-226.8
Civil immunity for public and nonprofit corporation officials and private volunteers participating in certain programs for probationers
Section
8.01-226.9
Exemption from civil liability in connection with arrest or detention of person suspected of shoplifting
Section
8.01-226.10
Civil immunity for causing the arrest of a person for a bad check
Section
8.01-226.11
Civil immunity for operation of victim notification program
Section
8.01-226.12
Duty of landlord and managing agent with respect to visible mold
Section
8.01-226.13
Limited standing to seek injunctive relief against manufacturing companies
Section
8.01-227
Remedy by motion on certain bonds given or taken by officers; notice
Section
8.01-227.1
Repealed
Section
8.01-227.4
Definitions
Section
8.01-227.5
Persons who may bring action; persons against whom actions may be brought; damages recoverable
Section
8.01-227.6
Law-enforcement officer or agency; health care provider not liable under certain conditions
Section
8.01-227.7
Statute of limitations
Section
8.01-227.8
Definitions
Section
8.01-227.9
Civil immunity for space flight entities
Section
8.01-227.10
Warning required
Section
8.01-227.11
Definitions
Section
8.01-227.12
Warnings and other winter sports area operator requirements
Section
8.01-227.13
Winter sports area trail maps
Section
8.01-227.14
Freestyle terrain
Section
8.01-227.15
Winter sports area vehicles
Section
8.01-227.16
Passenger tramways
Section
8.01-227.17
Duties and responsibilities of winter sports participants and certain other individuals
Section
8.01-227.18
Helmets
Section
8.01-227.19
Assumption of risks
Section
8.01-227.20
Liability of winter sports area operator
Section
8.01-227.21
Common law regarding minors
Section
8.01-227.22
Failure to fulfill duty or responsibility not negligence per se
Section
8.01-227.23
Applicability of article