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- Va. Code § 8.01-14 · Suit against assignor
- Va. Code § 8.01-15 · Suits by and against unincorporated associations or orders
- Va. Code § 8.01-15.1 · Anonymous plaintiff; motion for identification; factors to be considered by court
- Va. Code § 8.01-15.2 · Servicemembers Civil Relief Act; default judgment; appointment of counsel
- Va. Code § 8.01-16 · New parties may have continuance
- Va. Code § 8.01-17 · When party whose powers cease is defendant
- Va. Code § 8.01-18 · When suit discontinued unless revived
- Va. Code § 8.01-19 · Effect of marriage or change of name of party
- Va. Code § 8.01-20 · Effect of marriage, change of name or death on appeal
- Va. Code § 8.01-20.1 · Certification of expert witness opinion at time of service of process
- Va. Code § 8.01-21 · Judgment when death or disability occurs after verdict but before judgment
- Va. Code § 8.01-22 · When death or disability occurs as to any of several plaintiffs or defendants
- Va. Code § 8.01-23 · Decree in suit when number of parties exceeds 30 and one of them dies
- Va. Code § 8.01-24 · Writ of scire facias abolished; substitutes therefor
- Va. Code § 8.01-25 · Survival of causes of action
- Va. Code § 8.01-26 · Assignment of causes of action
- Va. Code § 8.01-27 · Civil action on note or writing promising to pay money
- Va. Code § 8.01-27.1 · Additional recovery in certain civil actions concerning checks or rejected electronic funds transfers
- Va. Code § 8.01-27.2 · Civil recovery for giving bad check
- Va. Code § 8.01-27.3 · Evidence in actions regarding issuance of bad check
- Va. Code § 8.01-27.4 · Civil recovery for professional services
- Va. Code § 8.01-27.5 · Duty of in-network providers to submit claims to health insurers; liability of covered patients for unbilled health care services
- Va. Code § 8.01-28 · When judgment to be given in action upon contract or note unless defendant appears and denies claim under oath
- Va. Code § 8.01-29 · Procedure in actions on annuity and installment bonds, and other actions for penalties for nonperformance
- Va. Code § 8.01-30 · Procedure in actions on contracts made by several persons
- Va. Code § 8.01-31 · Accounting in equity
- Va. Code § 8.01-32 · Action on lost evidences of debt
- Va. Code § 8.01-33 · Equitable relief in certain cases
- Va. Code § 8.01-34 · When contribution among wrongdoers enforced
- Va. Code § 8.01-35 · Damages for loss of income not diminished by reimbursement
- Va. Code § 8.01-35.1 · Effect of release or covenant not to sue in respect to liability and contribution
- Va. Code § 8.01-36 · Joinder of action of tort to infant with action for recovery of expenses incurred thereby and claim for recovery of expenses by infant
- Va. Code § 8.01-37 · Recovery of lost wages in action for injuries to emancipated infant
- Va. Code § 8.01-37.1 · Claims for medical services provided by United States; proof of reasonable value
- Va. Code § 8.01-38 · Tort liability of hospitals
- Va. Code § 8.01-38.1 · Limitation on recovery of punitive damages
- Va. Code § 8.01-39 · Completion or acceptance of work not bar to action against independent contractor for personal injury, wrongful death or damage to property
- Va. Code § 8.01-40 · Unauthorized use of name or picture of any person; punitive damages; statute of limitations
- Va. Code § 8.01-40.1 · Action for injury resulting from violation of Computer Crimes Act; limitations
- Va. Code § 8.01-40.2 · Unsolicited transmission of advertising materials by facsimile machine
- Va. Code § 8.01-40.3 · Unauthorized dissemination, etc., of criminal history record information; civil action
- Va. Code § 8.01-40.4 · Civil action for unlawful creation of image of another or unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another
- Va. Code § 8.01-40.5 · Publishing or distributing material harmful to minors on the Internet
- Va. Code § 8.01-41 · Wrongful distraint, attachment
- Va. Code § 8.01-42 · Loss or injury to clothing in dyeing, dry cleaning, or laundering
- Va. Code § 8.01-42.1 · Civil action for racial, religious, or ethnic harassment, violence or vandalism
- Va. Code § 8.01-42.2 · Liability of guest for hotel damage
- Va. Code § 8.01-42.3 · Civil action for stalking
- Va. Code § 8.01-42.4 · Civil action for trafficking in persons
- Va. Code § 8.01-42.5 · Civil action for female genital mutilation
- Va. Code § 8.01-42.6 · Liability of employer for personal injury or death by wrongful act
- Va. Code § 8.01-43 · Action against parent for damage to public property by minor
- Va. Code § 8.01-44 · Action against parent for damage to private property by minor
- Va. Code § 8.01-44.1 · Immunity from civil liability of members of certain committees, etc
- Va. Code § 8.01-44.2 · Action against physician for vaccine-related injury or death
- Va. Code § 8.01-44.3 · Divulgence of communications by qualified interpreters and communications assistants
- Va. Code § 8.01-44.4 · Action for shoplifting and employee theft
- Va. Code § 8.01-44.5 · Punitive damages for persons injured by intoxicated drivers
- Va. Code § 8.01-44.6 · Action for injury to cemetery property
- Va. Code § 8.01-44.7 · Action for tampering with metering device and diverting service
- Va. Code § 8.01-45 · Action for insulting words
- Va. Code § 8.01-46 · Justification and mitigation of damages
- Va. Code § 8.01-46.1 · Disclosure of employment-related information; presumptions; causes of action; definitions
- Va. Code § 8.01-46.2 · Civil action for dissemination of intimate images to another; penalty
- Va. Code § 8.01-47 · Immunity of persons investigating or reporting certain incidents at schools
- Va. Code § 8.01-48 · Mitigation in actions against newspapers, etc
- Va. Code § 8.01-49 · Defamatory statements in radio and television broadcasts
- Va. Code § 8.01-49.1 · Liability for defamatory material on the Internet
- Va. Code § 8.01-50 · Action for death by wrongful act; how and when to be brought
- Va. Code § 8.01-50.1 · Certification of expert witness opinion at time of service of process
- Va. Code § 8.01-51 · No action when deceased has compromised claim
- Va. Code § 8.01-52 · Amount of damages
- Va. Code § 8.01-52.1 · Admissibility of expressions of sympathy
- Va. Code § 8.01-53 · Class and beneficiaries; when determined
- Va. Code § 8.01-54 · Judgment to distribute recovery when verdict fails to do so
- Va. Code § 8.01-55 · Compromise of claim for death by wrongful act
- Va. Code § 8.01-56 · When right of action not to determine nor action to abate
- Va. Code § 8.01-57 · Liability of railroads for injury to certain employees
- Va. Code § 8.01-58 · Contributory negligence no bar to recovery; violation of safety appliance acts
- Va. Code § 8.01-59 · Assumption of risk; violation of safety appliance acts
- Va. Code § 8.01-60 · Contracts exempting from liability void; set-off of insurance
- Va. Code § 8.01-61 · Definition of "common carrier" as used in article
- Va. Code § 8.01-62 · Action may embrace liability under both State and federal acts
- Va. Code § 8.01-63 · Liability for death or injury to guest in motor vehicle
- Va. Code § 8.01-64 · Liability for negligence of minor
- Va. Code § 8.01-65 · Defense of lack of consent of owner
- Va. Code § 8.01-66 · Recovery of damages for loss of use of vehicle
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.1 · Remedy for arbitrary refusal of motor vehicle insurance claim
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.1:1 · (For January 1, 2016, applicability date, see Editor's note) Subrogation claims by underinsured motorist benefits insurer
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.2 · Lien against person whose negligence causes injury
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.3 · Lien inferior to claim of attorney or personal representative
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.4 · Subrogation
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.5 · Written notice required
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.6 · Liability for reasonable charges for services
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.7 · Hearing and disposal of claim of unreasonableness
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.8 · Petition to enforce lien
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.9 · Lien in favor of Commonwealth, its programs, institutions or departments on claim for personal injuries
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.9:1 · Lien against recovery for medical treatment provided to prisoner
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.9:2 · Lien in favor of the Department of Medical Assistance Services on claim for personal injuries
- Va. Code § 8.01-66.10 · Death claims settled by compromise or suit