An accounting in equity may be had against any fiduciary or by one joint tenant, tenant in common, or coparcener for receiving more than comes to his just share or proportion, or against the personal representative of any such party.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-31
Accounting in equity
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Greenwood Associates, Inc. v. Crestar Bank (1994)
Most recently applied in Adair v. EQT Production Co. (March 2017)
Code 1950, § 8-514.1; 1956, c. 160; 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.