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- Va. Code § 8.01-401.3 · Opinion testimony and conclusions as to facts critical to civil case resolution (Supreme Court Rule 2:701 derived from subsection B of this section, subdivision (a)(i) of Supreme Court Rule 2:702 derived from subsection A of this section, and subsection (a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:704 derived from subsections B and C of this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-402 · Members of Department of Motor Vehicles' Crash Investigation Team not to be required to give evidence in certain cases
- Va. Code § 8.01-403 · Witness proving adverse; contradiction; prior inconsistent statement (Subsection (c) of Supreme Court Rule 2:607 and subdivision (a)(i) of Supreme Court Rule 2:613 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-404 · Contradiction by prior inconsistent writing (Subdivision (b)(i) of Supreme Court Rule 2:613 derived in part from this section and subdivision (b)(ii) of Supreme Court Rule 2:613 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-405 · Who may administer oath to witness
- Va. Code § 8.01-406 · Interpreters; recording testimony of deaf witness (Supreme Court Rule 2:604 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-407 · How summons for witness issued and to whom directed; how witness released from subpoena; prior permission of court to summon certain officials and judges
- Va. Code § 8.01-407.1 · Identity of persons communicating anonymously over the Internet
- Va. Code § 8.01-408 · Recognizance taken upon continuance of case
- Va. Code § 8.01-409 · When court may have process for witness executed by its own officer in another county or city
- Va. Code § 8.01-410 · Inmates as witnesses in civil actions
- Va. Code § 8.01-411 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.2 · Authorization of audio-visual deposition; official record; uses
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.3 · Notice of audio-visual deposition
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.4 · Procedure
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.5 · Costs
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.6 · Promulgation of rules for standards and guidelines
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.7 · Short title
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.8 · Short title
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.9 · Definitions
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.10 · Issuance of subpoena
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.11 · Service of subpoena
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.12 · Deposition, production, and inspection
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.13 · Application to court
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.14 · Uniformity of application and construction; reciprocal privileges
- Va. Code § 8.01-412.15 · Application to pending actions
- Va. Code § 8.01-413 · Certain copies of health care provider's health records of patient admissible; right of patient, his attorney and authorized insurer to copies of such health records; subpoena; damages, costs and attorney fees
- Va. Code § 8.01-413.01 · Authenticity and reasonableness of medical bills; presumption
- Va. Code § 8.01-413.02 · Admissibility of written reports or records of blood alcohol tests conducted in the regular course of providing emergency medical treatment
- Va. Code § 8.01-413.1 · Certain copies of employment records or papers admissible; right of employee or his attorney to copies of such records or papers; subpoena; damages, costs and attorney's fees
- Va. Code § 8.01-414 · Affidavit prima facie evidence of nonresidence
- Va. Code § 8.01-415 · Affidavit evidence of publication
- Va. Code § 8.01-416 · Affidavit re damages to motor vehicle
- Va. Code § 8.01-417 · Copies of written statements or transcriptions of verbal statements by injured person to be delivered to him; copies of subpoenaed documents to be provided to other party; disclosure of insurance policy limits
- Va. Code § 8.01-417.01 · Disclosure of certain homeowners insurance and personal injury liability insurance policy limits
- Va. Code § 8.01-417.1 · Use of portions of documents in evidence (Subsection (b) of Supreme Court Rule 2:106 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-418 · When plea of guilty or nolo contendere, finding of guilt in absentia, or forfeiture in criminal prosecution or traffic case admissible in civil action; proof of such plea, finding, or forfeiture
- Va. Code § 8.01-418.1 · Evidence of subsequent measures taken not admissible to prove negligence (Supreme Court Rule 2:407 derived from this section)
- Va. Code § 8.01-418.2 · Evidence of polygraph examination inadmissible in any proceeding
- Va. Code § 8.01-418.3 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-419 · Table of life expectancy
- Va. Code § 8.01-419.1 · Motor vehicle value
- Va. Code § 8.01-420 · Depositions as basis for motion for summary judgment or to strike evidence
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.01 · Limiting further disclosure of discoverable materials and information; protective order
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.1 · Abolition of common-law perpetuation of testimony
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.2 · Limitation on use of recorded conversations as evidence
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.3 · Court reporters to provide transcripts; when recording may be stopped; use of transcript as evidence
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.4 · Taking of depositions
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.4:1 · Taking of depositions; corporate officers
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.5 · Estoppel effect of judicial determination of employment status
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.6 · Number of witnesses whose depositions may be taken
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.7 · Attorney-client privilege and work product protection; limitations on waiver
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.8 · Protection of confidential information in court files
- Va. Code § 8.01-420.9 · Subpoena duces tecum; financial records of nonparty
- Va. Code § 8.01-421 · Payment may be pleaded; payment into court of part of claim; procedure upon such payment
- Va. Code § 8.01-422 · Pleading recoupment
- Va. Code § 8.01-423 · When plaintiff claims as assignee or transferee
- Va. Code § 8.01-424 · Approval of compromises on behalf of persons under a disability in suits or actions to which they are parties
- Va. Code § 8.01-424.1 · Settlement of third-party action; deemed consent by employer
- Va. Code § 8.01-425 · How fiduciaries may compromise liabilities due to or from them
- Va. Code § 8.01-425.1 · Release of liability; right of rescission
- Va. Code § 8.01-426 · "Judgment" includes decree
- Va. Code § 8.01-427 · Persons entitled under decree deemed judgment creditors; execution on decree
- Va. Code § 8.01-427.1 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 8.01-428 · Setting aside default judgments; clerical mistakes; independent actions to relieve party from judgment or proceedings; grounds and time limitations
- Va. Code § 8.01-429 · Action of appellate court when there might be redress under § 8.01-428
- Va. Code § 8.01-430 · When final judgment to be entered after verdict set aside
- Va. Code § 8.01-431 · Judgment or decree by confession in pending suit
- Va. Code § 8.01-432 · Confession of judgment irrespective of suit pending
- Va. Code § 8.01-433 · Setting aside judgments confessed under § 8.01-432
- Va. Code § 8.01-433.1 · Notice of confession of judgment provision
- Va. Code § 8.01-434 · Lien of such judgments
- Va. Code § 8.01-435 · Who may confess judgment
- Va. Code § 8.01-436 · Form of confession of judgment
- Va. Code § 8.01-437 · Endorsement of clerk thereon
- Va. Code § 8.01-438 · When judgment confessed by attorney-in-fact copy to be served on judgment debtor
- Va. Code § 8.01-439 · Filing of records by clerk
- Va. Code § 8.01-440 · Docketing and execution
- Va. Code § 8.01-441 · When judgment confessed by virtue of power of attorney invalid
- Va. Code § 8.01-442 · In joint actions on contract plaintiff, though barred as to some, may have judgment against others
- Va. Code § 8.01-443 · Joint wrongdoers; effect of judgment against one
- Va. Code § 8.01-444 · Where new parties added; if some not liable, how judgment entered
- Va. Code § 8.01-445 · Distinction between term and vacation abolished; effect of time
- Va. Code § 8.01-446 · Clerks to keep judgment dockets; what judgments to be docketed therein
- Va. Code § 8.01-446.1 · Keeping of docket books by clerk of court using micrographic process; form
- Va. Code § 8.01-447 · Docketing of judgments and decrees of United States courts
- Va. Code § 8.01-448 · Attorney General, etc., to have judgments in favor of Commonwealth docketed
- Va. Code § 8.01-449 · How judgments are docketed
- Va. Code § 8.01-450 · How indexed
- Va. Code § 8.01-451 · Judgments to be docketed and indexed in new names of judgment debtors; how execution may thereafter issue
- Va. Code § 8.01-452 · Entry of assignment of judgment on judgment lien docket
- Va. Code § 8.01-452.1 · Disposal of exhibits in civil cases
- Va. Code § 8.01-453 · When and how payment or discharge entered on judgment docket
- Va. Code § 8.01-454 · Judgment, when satisfied, to be so noted by creditor
- Va. Code § 8.01-455 · Court, on motion of defendant, etc., may have payment of judgment entered
- Va. Code § 8.01-456 · Satisfaction of judgment when judgment creditor cannot be located
- Va. Code § 8.01-457 · Marking satisfied judgments for Commonwealth; payment by third parties releasing recognizances
- Va. Code § 8.01-458 · From what time judgment to be a lien on real estate; docketing revived judgment
- Va. Code § 8.01-459 · Priority of judgments
- Va. Code § 8.01-460 · Decree for support and maintenance of spouse or infant children of parties as lien on real estate