No statute of limitations which shall not in express terms apply to the Commonwealth shall be deemed a bar to any proceeding by or on behalf of the same.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-231
Commonwealth not within statute of limitations
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case LaVay Corp. v. Dominion Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1987)
Most recently applied in Hensel Phelps Constr. Co. v. Thompson Masonry Contractor, Inc. (November 2016)
Code 1950, § 8-35; 1958, c. 221; 1977, c. 617; 1988, c. 544.
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.