In cases not provided for in § 8.2-318 where recovery of damages for injury to person, including death, or to property resulting from negligence is sought, lack of privity between the parties shall be no defense.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-223
Lack of privity no defense in certain cases
Applied in 28 court decisions — leading case Redman v. John D. Brush & Co. (1997)
Most recently applied in Powell v. Diehl Woodworking Machinery, Inc. (August 2016)
Code 1950, § 8-654.4; 1966, c. 439; 1977, c. 617.
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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.