Home > For Small Business > Litigation > Civil Actions > Virginia Code Title 8.01 > Chapter 3 - Actions

Civil Actions

For this topic:

Search the Virginia Code

Virginia Code Title 8.01 > Chapter 3 - Actions

Virginia Code > Title 8.01 > Chapter 3 - Actions

^{Current as of: 2011}

^{Check for updates}


§ 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
§ 8.01-72	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...
§ 8.01-128	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
§ 8.01-227.4	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.

________________________________________________________________________

Questions & Answers: Civil Actions

What can a slumlord get in trouble for?...

We have to go bathroom in buckets he won't fix toilet no heater etc and toxic black mold...

He walked in just walked right in I was getting dressed he comes and harasses and I've got videos also he won't fix health issues then verbally evicts for no reason that's I guess ...

I have been paying tax on my mom land since 1989 and this man have a mobile home on about 14feets of our land and he is trying to take it because it had been there for7 years. I ho...

we installed temporary electric service for a customer. The work was completed in October 2012. What is the statute of limitaions? ...

help ** How many years is it for credit card collection companies to sue you -- I'm confused 3 or 6 Thank you...

Virginia Laws: Civil Actions

Virginia Code Title 8.01 > Chapter 3 - Actions

Virginia Code Title 8.01 > Chapter 5.1 - Multiple Claimant Litigation Act

Bookmark

Comments (0) add comment