Code of Virginia - Title 8.01 Civil Remedies And Procedure - Chapter 4 Limitations Of Actions

8.01-228 Scope of limitations; "personal action" defined
Every action for which a limitation period is prescribed by law must be commenced within the period prescribed in this chapter unless otherwise specifically provided ...

8.01-229 Suspension or tolling of statute of limitations; effect of disabilities; death; injunction; prevent...
A. Disabilities which toll the statute of limitations. - Except as otherwise specifically provided in §§ 8.01-237, 8.01-241, 8.01-242, 8.01-243, 8.01-243.1 and other provisions of ...

8.01-230 Accrual of right of action
In every action for which a limitation period is prescribed, the right of action shall be deemed to accrue and the prescribed limitation period shall ...

8.01-231 Commonwealth not within statute of limitations
No statute of limitations which shall not in express terms apply to the Commonwealth shall be deemed a bar to any proceeding by or on ...

8.01-232 Effect of promises not to plead statute
A. Whenever the failure to enforce a promise, written or unwritten, not to plead the statute of limitations would operate as a fraud on the ...

8.01-233 When action deemed brought on counterclaim or cross-claim; when statute of limitations tolled; defe...
A. A defendant who pleads a counterclaim or cross-claim shall be deemed to have brought an action at the time he files such pleading. B. ...

8.01-234 Repeal of limitation not to remove bar of statute
If, after a right of action or remedy is barred by a statute of limitations, the statute be repealed, the bar of the statute as ...

8.01-235 Bar of expiration of limitation period raised only as affirmative defense in responsive pleadin...
The objection that an action is not commenced within the limitation period prescribed by law can only be raised as an affirmative defense specifically set ...

8.01-236 Limitation of entry on or action for land
No person shall make an entry on, or bring an action to recover, any land unless within fifteen years next after the time at which ...

8.01-237 Effect of disabilities upon right of entry on, or action for, land
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A of § 8.01-229, no disabilities or tacking of disabilities shall preserve to any person or his successors a right ...

8.01-238 To repeal grant
A bill in equity to repeal, in whole or in part, any grant of land by the Commonwealth, shall be brought within ten years next ...

8.01-239 Ground rents
No action shall be brought for the recovery of any ground rent reserved upon real estate after the expiration of ten years from the time ...

8.01-240 Liens for water, sewer, or sidewalk assessments
No suit shall be brought to enforce the lien of any water, sewer, or sidewalk assessment, heretofore or hereafter made, against lands which have been ...

8.01-241 Limitation of enforcement of deeds of trust, mortgages and liens for unpaid purchase mone...
No deed of trust or mortgage heretofore or hereafter given to secure the payment of money, and no lien heretofore or hereafter reserved to secure ...

8.01-241.1 Permissible form for certificate
Any extension of the limitations of the right to enforce the lien of a deed of trust or mortgage shall conform substantially with the following ...

8.01-242 Same; when no maturity date is given; credit line deeds of trust
No deed of trust or mortgage given to secure the payment of money, other than credit line deeds of trust described in § 55-58.2, and ...

8.01-243 Personal action for injury to person or property generally; extension in actions for malpractice ag...
A. Unless otherwise provided in this section or by other statute, every action for personal injuries, whatever the theory of recovery, and every action for ...

8.01-243.1 Actions for medical malpractice; minors
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 8.01-229 A and except as provided in subsection C of § 8.01-243, any cause of action accruing on or after ...

8.01-243.2 Limitations of actions by confined persons; exhaustion
No person confined in a state or local correctional facility shall bring or have brought on his behalf any personal action relating to the conditions ...

8.01-244 Actions for wrongful death; limitation
A. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 8.01-229 B, if a person entitled to bring an action for personal injury dies as a result of such ...

8.01-245 Limitation on actions upon the bond of any fiduciaries or as to suits against fiduciaries themselve...
A. No action shall be brought upon the bond of any fiduciary except within ten years next after the right to bring such action shall ...

8.01-246 Personal actions based on contracts
Subject to the provisions of § 8.01-243 regarding injuries to person and property and of § 8.01-245 regarding the application of limitations to fiduciaries, and ...

8.01-247 When action on contract governed by the law of another state or country barred in Virgini...
No action shall be maintained on any contract which is governed by the law of another state or country if the right of action thereon ...

8.01-247.1 Limitation on action for defamation, etc
Every action for injury resulting from libel, slander, insulting words or defamation shall be brought within one year after the cause of action accrues. (1995, ...

8.01-248 Personal actions for which no other limitation is specified
Every personal action accruing on or after July 1, 1995, for which no limitation is otherwise prescribed, shall be brought within two years after the ...

8.01-249 When cause of action shall be deemed to accrue in certain personal actions
The cause of action in the actions herein listed shall be deemed to accrue as follows: 1. In actions for fraud or mistake, in actions ...

8.01-250 Limitation on certain actions for damages arising out of defective or unsafe condition of improveme...
No action to recover for any injury to property, real or personal, or for bodily injury or wrongful death, arising out of the defective and ...

8.01-250.1 Limitation on actions involving removal of asbestos
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 8.01-234 or any other section in this chapter, every action against a manufacturer or supplier of asbestos or material containing ...

8.01-251 Limitations on enforcement of judgments
A. No execution shall be issued and no action brought on a judgment, including a judgment in favor of the Commonwealth and a judgment rendered ...

8.01-252 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2005, cc. 139, 203. ...

8.01-253 Limitation of suits to avoid voluntary conveyances, etc
No gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge, which is not on consideration deemed valuable in law, or which is upon consideration of marriage, shall be ...

8.01-254 Limitation on enforcement of bequests and legacies
Wherever by any will, the testator devises any real estate to some person and requires such person to pay some other person a specified sum ...

8.01-255 Time for presenting claim against Commonwealth
Any pecuniary claim authorized to be presented under §§ 2.2-814 and 2.2-815 shall be barred unless presented in writing to the comptroller or other authorized ...

8.01-255.1 Limitation of action for breach of condition subsequent or termination of determinable fee simple e...
No person shall commence an action for the recovery of lands, nor make an entry thereon, by reason of a breach of a condition subsequent, ...

8.01-255.2 Limitation on motion for new execution after loss of property sold under indemnity bond
A motion made pursuant to § 8.01-476 shall be made within five years after the right to make the same shall have accrued. (Code 1950, ...

8.01-256 As to rights and remedies existing when this chapter takes effect
No action, suit, scire facias, or other proceeding which is pending before October 1, 1977, shall be barred by this chapter, and any action, suit, ...