1 Va. App. 256 - Burns v. C.W. Wright Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “The filing of an appeal bond ... is not jurisdictional and the time for filing such bond in cases before the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court may be extended by a judge or justice of the court before which the case is pending on motion for good cause shown and to attain the ends of justice. Acts 1986, ch. 89, also included Section 4, which read: 1 [S]ubsection L of this act shall apply to all appeals filed heretofore in the Court of Appeals except that this provision shall not revive appeals in which there can be no further proceedings in any court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Foster v. Foster

2. “We are not here confronted with a mere technical defect which could subsequently be corrected. The bond given within the limitation period was not merely voidable, but void. The statute in plain terms requires an obligation ‘with surety.’ Here there was none. Such fatal defect could not be supplied after the expiration of the time within which the appeal should have been perfected.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Foster v. Foster