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- Va. Code § 8.01-252 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-253 · Limitation of suits to avoid voluntary conveyances, etc
- Va. Code § 8.01-254 · Limitation on enforcement of bequests and legacies
- Va. Code § 8.01-255 · Time for presenting claim against Commonwealth
- Va. Code § 8.01-255.1 · Limitation of action for breach of condition subsequent or termination of determinable fee simple estate
- Va. Code § 8.01-255.2 · Limitation on motion for new execution after loss of property sold under indemnity bond
- Va. Code § 8.01-256 · As to rights and remedies existing when this chapter takes effect
- Va. Code § 8.01-257 · Venue generally
- Va. Code § 8.01-258 · Venue not jurisdictional
- Va. Code § 8.01-259 · Application
- Va. Code § 8.01-260 · Proper venue; preferred forum in certain actions; permissible forums for other actions
- Va. Code § 8.01-261 · Category A or preferred venue
- Va. Code § 8.01-262 · Category B or permissible venue
- Va. Code § 8.01-262.1 · Place for bringing action under a contract related to construction
- Va. Code § 8.01-263 · Multiple parties
- Va. Code § 8.01-264 · Venue improperly laid; objection
- Va. Code § 8.01-265 · Change of venue by court
- Va. Code § 8.01-266 · Costs
- Va. Code § 8.01-267 · Discretion of judge
- Va. Code § 8.01-267.1 · Standards governing consolidation, etc., and transfer
- Va. Code § 8.01-267.2 · When actions pending in same court
- Va. Code § 8.01-267.3 · Consolidation and other combined proceedings
- Va. Code § 8.01-267.4 · Transfer
- Va. Code § 8.01-267.5 · Joinder and severance
- Va. Code § 8.01-267.6 · Separate trials; special interrogatories
- Va. Code § 8.01-267.7 · Later-filed actions
- Va. Code § 8.01-267.8 · Interlocutory appeal
- Va. Code § 8.01-267.9 · Effect on other law
- Va. Code § 8.01-268 · When and how docketed and indexed
- Va. Code § 8.01-269 · Dismissal or satisfaction of same
- Va. Code § 8.01-270 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-271 · Compliance with Rules of Supreme Court
- Va. Code § 8.01-271.01 · Electronic filings in civil actions in circuit court
- Va. Code § 8.01-271.1 · Signing of pleadings, motions, and other papers; oral motions; sanctions
- Va. Code § 8.01-272 · Pleading several matters; joining tort and contract claims; separate trial in discretion of court; counterclaims
- Va. Code § 8.01-273 · Demurrer; form; grounds to be stated; amendment
- Va. Code § 8.01-273.1 · Motion for judgment; motion to refer; Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act
- Va. Code § 8.01-274 · Motion to strike defensive pleading in equity and at law; exceptions abolished
- Va. Code § 8.01-274.1 · Motion or petition for rule to show cause for violation of court order
- Va. Code § 8.01-275 · When action or suit not to abate for want of form; what defects not to be regarded
- Va. Code § 8.01-275.1 · When service of process is timely
- Va. Code § 8.01-276 · Demurrer to evidence and plea in abatement abolished; motion to strike evidence and written motion, respectively, to be used in lieu thereof
- Va. Code § 8.01-277 · Defective process; motion to quash; untimely service; motion to dismiss
- Va. Code § 8.01-277.1 · Objections to personal jurisdiction or defective process; what constitutes waiver
- Va. Code § 8.01-278 · When plea of infancy not allowed; liability of infants for debts as traders; liability of infants on loans to defray expenses of education
- Va. Code § 8.01-279 · When proof is unnecessary unless affidavit filed; handwriting; ownership; partnership or incorporation
- Va. Code § 8.01-280 · Pleadings may be sworn to before clerk; affidavit of belief sufficient
- Va. Code § 8.01-281 · Pleading in alternative; separate trial on motion of party
- Va. Code § 8.01-282 · Motion to strike evidence
- Va. Code § 8.01-283 · Answer in equity proceeding
- Va. Code § 8.01-284 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-285 · Definition of certain terms used in this chapter; process, return, statutory agent
- Va. Code § 8.01-286 · Forms of writs
- Va. Code § 8.01-286.1 · Service of process; waiver, duty to save costs, request to waive, how served
- Va. Code § 8.01-287 · How process to be served
- Va. Code § 8.01-288 · Process received in time good though neither served nor accepted
- Va. Code § 8.01-289 · No service of process on Sunday; exceptions
- Va. Code § 8.01-290 · Plaintiffs required to furnish full name and last known address of defendants, etc
- Va. Code § 8.01-291 · Copies to be made
- Va. Code § 8.01-292 · To whom process directed and where executed
- Va. Code § 8.01-293 · Authorization to serve process, capias or show cause order; execute writ of possession or eviction and levy upon property
- Va. Code § 8.01-294 · Sheriff to get from clerk's office process and other papers; return of papers; effect of late return
- Va. Code § 8.01-295 · Territorial limits within which sheriff may serve process in his official capacity; process appearing to be duly served
- Va. Code § 8.01-296 · Manner of serving process upon natural persons
- Va. Code § 8.01-297 · Process on convict defendant
- Va. Code § 8.01-298 · How summons for witness or juror served
- Va. Code § 8.01-299 · How process served on domestic stock corporations, nonstock corporations, and limited liability companies generally
- Va. Code § 8.01-300 · How process served on municipal and county governments and on quasi-governmental entities
- Va. Code § 8.01-301 · How process served on foreign stock or nonstock corporations and foreign limited liability companies generally
- Va. Code § 8.01-302 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-303 · On whom process served when corporation operated by trustee or receiver
- Va. Code § 8.01-304 · How process served on copartner or partnership, domestic or foreign limited liability partnership, and domestic or foreign limited partnership
- Va. Code § 8.01-304.1 · How process served on a business trust
- Va. Code § 8.01-305 · Process against unincorporated associations or orders, or unincorporated common carriers
- Va. Code § 8.01-306 · Process against unincorporated associations or orders, or unincorporated common carriers; principal office outside Virginia and business transactions in Virginia
- Va. Code § 8.01-307 · Definition of terms "motor vehicle" and "nonresident" in motor vehicle and aircraft accident cases
- Va. Code § 8.01-308 · Service on Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles as agent for nonresident motor vehicle operator
- Va. Code § 8.01-309 · Service on Secretary of Commonwealth as agent of nonresident operator or owner of aircraft
- Va. Code § 8.01-310 · How service made on Commissioner, Secretary, and Clerk; appointment binding
- Va. Code § 8.01-311 · Continuance of action where service made on Commissioner, Secretary, and Clerk
- Va. Code § 8.01-312 · Effect of service on statutory agent; duties of such agent; time for responding to process
- Va. Code § 8.01-313 · Specific addresses for mailing by statutory agent and resident agent
- Va. Code § 8.01-314 · Service on attorney after entry of general appearance by such attorney
- Va. Code § 8.01-315 · Notice to be mailed defendant when service accepted by another
- Va. Code § 8.01-316 · Service by publication; when available
- Va. Code § 8.01-317 · What order of publication to state; how published; when publication in newspaper dispensed with; electronic notice
- Va. Code § 8.01-318 · Within what time after publication case tried or heard; no subsequent publication required
- Va. Code § 8.01-319 · Publication of interim notice
- Va. Code § 8.01-320 · Personal service outside of Virginia
- Va. Code § 8.01-321 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-322 · Within what time case reheard on petition of party served by publication, and any injustice corrected
- Va. Code § 8.01-323 · In what counties city newspapers deemed published for purpose of legal advertisements
- Va. Code § 8.01-324 · Newspapers that may be used for legal notices and publications
- Va. Code § 8.01-325 · Return by person serving process
- Va. Code § 8.01-326 · Return as proof of service
- Va. Code § 8.01-326.1 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-327 · Acceptance of service of process
- Va. Code § 8.01-327.1 · Definition of "arrest under civil process."
- Va. Code § 8.01-327.2 · Who are privileged from arrest under civil process
- Va. Code § 8.01-328 · Person defined