If the action be by one or more tenants in common, joint tenants or coparceners against their cotenants, the plaintiff shall be bound to prove actual ouster or some other act amounting to total denial of the plaintiff's right as cotenant.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-141
When action by cotenants, etc., against cotenants, what plaintiff to prove
Code 1950, § 8-811; 1977, c. 617.
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