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Code of Virginia

Article 2

Pleadings Generally

8.01-271Compliance with Rules of Supreme Court 8.01-271.01Electronic filings in civil actions in circuit court 8.01-271.1Signing of pleadings, motions, and other papers; oral motions; sanctions 8.01-271.2(Effective January 1, 2027) Signing of pleadings, motions, and other papers in consumer debt collection proceedings 8.01-272Pleading several matters; joining tort and contract claims; separate trial in discretion of court; counterclaims 8.01-273Demurrer; form; grounds to be stated; amendment 8.01-273.1Motion for judgment; motion to refer; Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act 8.01-274Motion to strike defensive pleading in equity and at law; exceptions abolished 8.01-274.1Motion or petition for rule to show cause for violation of court order 8.01-275When action or suit not to abate for want of form; what defects not to be regarded 8.01-275.1When service of process is timely 8.01-276Demurrer to evidence and plea in abatement abolished; motion to strike evidence and written motion, respectively, to be used in lieu thereof 8.01-277Defective process; motion to quash; untimely service; motion to dismiss 8.01-277.1Objections to personal jurisdiction or defective process; what constitutes waiver 8.01-278When plea of infancy not allowed; liability of infants for debts as traders; liability of infants on loans to defray expenses of education 8.01-279When proof is unnecessary unless affidavit filed; handwriting; ownership; partnership or incorporation 8.01-280Pleadings may be sworn to before clerk; affidavit of belief sufficient 8.01-281Pleading in alternative; separate trial on motion of party