As used in this chapter, "person" includes an individual, his executor, administrator, or other personal representative, or a corporation, partnership, association or any other legal or commercial entity, whether or not a citizen or domiciliary of this Commonwealth and whether or not organized under the laws of this Commonwealth.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-328
Person defined
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case Young v. New Haven Advocate (2002)
Most recently applied in 86 Va. Cir. 206 - Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. v. Mountain Pacific Realty, L.L.C. (January 2013)
Code 1950, § 8-81.1; 1964, c. 331; 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.