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- Va. Code § 8.01-328.1 · When personal jurisdiction over person may be exercised
- Va. Code § 8.01-329 · Service of process or notice; service on Secretary of Commonwealth
- Va. Code § 8.01-330 · Jurisdiction on any other basis authorized
- Va. Code § 8.01-331 · Entry of cases on current dockets
- Va. Code § 8.01-332 · Calling current docket
- Va. Code § 8.01-333 · Reserved
- Va. Code § 8.01-334 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-335 · Certain cases struck from dockets after certain period; reinstatement
- Va. Code § 8.01-336 · Jury trial of right; waiver of jury trial; court-ordered jury trial; trial by jury of plea in equity; equitable claim
- Va. Code § 8.01-337 · Who liable to serve as jurors
- Va. Code § 8.01-338 · Who disqualified
- Va. Code § 8.01-339 · No person eligible for whom request is made
- Va. Code § 8.01-340 · No person to serve who has case at that term
- Va. Code § 8.01-341 · Who are exempt from jury service
- Va. Code § 8.01-341.1 · Exemptions from jury service upon request
- Va. Code § 8.01-341.2 · Deferral or limitation of jury service for particular occupational inconvenience or for persons who have legal custody and are responsible for a child
- Va. Code § 8.01-342 · Restrictions on amount of jury service permitted
- Va. Code § 8.01-343 · Appointment of jury commissioners
- Va. Code § 8.01-344 · Notification of jury commissioners; their oath
- Va. Code § 8.01-345 · Lists of qualified persons to be prepared by jury commissioners; random selection process
- Va. Code § 8.01-346 · Lists to be delivered to clerk and safely kept by him; addition and removal of names
- Va. Code § 8.01-347 · How names put in jury box
- Va. Code § 8.01-348 · How names of jurors drawn from box
- Va. Code § 8.01-349 · Notations on ballots drawn; return to box; when such ballots may be drawn again
- Va. Code § 8.01-350 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-350.1 · Selection of jurors by mechanical or electronic techniques for the term of court
- Va. Code § 8.01-351 · Preparation and disposition of list of jurors drawn
- Va. Code § 8.01-352 · Objections to irregularities in jury lists or for legal disability; effect thereof
- Va. Code § 8.01-353 · Notice to jurors; making copy of jury panel available to counsel; objection to notice
- Va. Code § 8.01-353.1 · Jurors to provide identification
- Va. Code § 8.01-354 · "Writ of venire facias" defined
- Va. Code § 8.01-355 · Jurors on list to be used for trial of cases during term; discharge or dispensing with attendance of jurors; drawing additional jurors
- Va. Code § 8.01-356 · Failure of juror to appear
- Va. Code § 8.01-357 · Selection of jury panel
- Va. Code § 8.01-358 · Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors
- Va. Code § 8.01-359 · Trial; numbers of jurors in civil cases; how jurors selected from panel
- Va. Code § 8.01-360 · Additional jurors when trial likely to be protracted
- Va. Code § 8.01-361 · New juror may be sworn in place of one disabled; when court may discharge jury
- Va. Code § 8.01-362 · Special juries
- Va. Code § 8.01-363 · When impartial jury cannot be obtained locally
- Va. Code § 8.01-364 · Interpleader
- Va. Code § 8.01-365 · How claim of third party tried
- Va. Code § 8.01-366 · Sale of property when no forthcoming bond is given
- Va. Code § 8.01-367 · Indemnifying bond to officer
- Va. Code § 8.01-368 · Return of such bond to clerk's office
- Va. Code § 8.01-369 · Effect of such bond
- Va. Code § 8.01-370 · Claimant may give suspending bond; proceedings to have title settled; action on indemnifying or suspending bond
- Va. Code § 8.01-371 · How forthcoming bond taken of claimant of property the sale whereof has been suspended
- Va. Code § 8.01-372 · Sale despite bond when property perishable, etc
- Va. Code § 8.01-373 · When property sells for more than claim, how surplus paid
- Va. Code § 8.01-374 · Procedure when original papers in cause are lost
- Va. Code § 8.01-374.1 · Consolidation or bifurcation of issues or claims in certain cases; appeal
- Va. Code § 8.01-375 · Exclusion of witnesses in civil cases (Subsection (a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:615 derived in part from this section and subsection (b) of Supreme Court Rule 2:615 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-376 · Views by juries
- Va. Code § 8.01-377 · Remedy when variance appears between evidence and allegations
- Va. Code § 8.01-377.1 · Summary judgment
- Va. Code § 8.01-378 · Trial judge not to direct verdicts
- Va. Code § 8.01-379 · Argument before jury
- Va. Code § 8.01-379.1 · Informing jury of amounts sued for
- Va. Code § 8.01-379.2 · Jury instructions
- Va. Code § 8.01-379.2:1 · Spoliation of evidence
- Va. Code § 8.01-379.3 · General verdict accompanied by answer to interrogatories
- Va. Code § 8.01-380 · Dismissal of action by nonsuit; fees and costs
- Va. Code § 8.01-381 · What jury may carry out
- Va. Code § 8.01-382 · Verdict, judgment or decree to fix period at which interest begins; final order; judgment or decree for interest
- Va. Code § 8.01-383 · Power to grant new trial; how often
- Va. Code § 8.01-383.1 · Appeal when verdict reduced and accepted under protest; new trial for inadequate damages
- Va. Code § 8.01-384 · Formal exceptions to rulings or orders of court unnecessary; motion for new trial unnecessary in certain cases
- Va. Code § 8.01-384.1 · Interpreters for deaf or hard of hearing in civil proceedings
- Va. Code § 8.01-384.1:1 · Interpreters for non-English-speaking persons in civil cases
- Va. Code § 8.01-384.2 · Waiver of discovery time limitations by parties
- Va. Code § 8.01-385 · Definitions
- Va. Code § 8.01-386 · Judicial notice of laws (Supreme Court Rule 2:202 derived in part from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-387 · Notice by courts and officers of signatures of judges and Governor
- Va. Code § 8.01-388 · Judicial notice of official publications (Supreme Court Rule 2:203 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-389 · Judicial records as evidence; full faith and credit; recitals in deeds, deeds of trust, and mortgages; "records" defined; certification
- Va. Code § 8.01-390 · Nonjudicial records as evidence (Subdivision (10)(a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:803 derived from subsection C of this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-390.1 · School records as evidence
- Va. Code § 8.01-390.2 · Reports by Chief Medical Examiner received as evidence
- Va. Code § 8.01-390.3 · Business records as evidence (Subdivision (6) of Supreme Court Rule 2:902 derived in part from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-391 · Copies of originals as evidence (Subdivision (6) of Supreme Court Rule 2:902 derived in part from subsection D of this section and Supreme Court Rule 2:1005 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-391.1 · Substitute checks as evidence (Supreme Court Rule 2:1003 derived from subsections A and B of this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-392 · When court order book or equivalent is lost or illegible, what matters may be reentered
- Va. Code § 8.01-393 · When book or paper or equivalent in clerk's office lost, destroyed, or illegible to be again recorded
- Va. Code § 8.01-394 · How contents of any such lost record, etc., proved
- Va. Code § 8.01-395 · Validating certain proceedings under § 8.01-394
- Va. Code § 8.01-396 · No person incompetent to testify by reason of interest, or because a party
- Va. Code § 8.01-396.1 · Competency of witness
- Va. Code § 8.01-396.2 · Minor witness; appointment of guardian ad litem
- Va. Code § 8.01-397 · Corroboration required and evidence receivable when one party incapable of testifying (subdivision (b)(5) of Supreme Court Rule 2:804 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-397.1 · Evidence of habit or routine practice; defined (Supreme Court Rule 2:406 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-398 · Privileged marital communications (Subsection (a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:504 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-399 · Communications between physicians and patients (Supreme Court Rule 2:505 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-400 · Communications between ministers of religion and persons they counsel or advise (Supreme Court Rule 2:503 derived in part from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-400.1 · Privileged communications by interpreters for the deaf (Supreme Court Rule 2:507 derived in part from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-400.2 · Communications between certain mental health professionals and clients (Supreme Court Rule 2:506 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-401 · How adverse party may be examined; effect of refusal to testify (subsection (b) of Supreme Court Rule 2:607 and subsection (c) of Supreme Court Rule 2:611 derived from subsection A of this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-401.1 · Opinion testimony by experts; hearsay exception (subsection (a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:703, subsection (a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:705, and subsection (a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:706 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-401.2 · Chiropractor, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, or optometrist as expert witness
- Va. Code § 8.01-401.2:1 · Podiatrist as an expert witness