No action shall be maintained on any contract which is governed by the law of another state or country if the right of action thereon is barred either by the laws of such state or country or of this Commonwealth.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-247
When action on contract governed by the law of another state or country barred in Virginia
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Park v. Alcon Surgical Incorporated (1993)
Most recently applied in Olawole v. ActioNet, Inc. (June 2017)
Code 1950, § 8-23; 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.