Contribution among wrongdoers may be enforced when the wrong results from negligence and involves no moral turpitude.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-34
When contribution among wrongdoers enforced
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers Union (1981)
Most recently applied in Doe v. Virginia Wesleyan College (June 2015)
Code 1950, § 8-627; 1977, c. 617.
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.