The failure of any person or corporation to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall not prevent a recovery by or against such person or corporation, in any of the courts in this Commonwealth on any cause of action heretofore or hereafter arising, but no action shall be maintained in any of the courts in this Commonwealth by any such person, corporation or his or its assignee or successor in title unless and until the certificate required by this chapter has been filed.
Va. Code Ann. § 59.1-76
Effect of failure to file certificate on right of action
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Moore v. Northern Homes of Pennsylvania, Inc. (1978)
Most recently applied in Transurban v. D'Arco (February 2016)
Code 1950, § 59-176; 1968, c. 439.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.