Any receiver of any property appointed by the courts of this Commonwealth may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver was appointed; but the institution or pendency of such suit shall not interfere with or delay a sale by trustees under a deed of trust or a decree of sale for foreclosure of any mortgage upon such property.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-597
Suits against receivers in certain cases
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Gilbert v. Edward H. Winks Architecture, P.C. (1997)
Most recently applied in Gilbert v. Edward H. Winks Architecture, P.C. (February 1997)
Code 1950, § 8-741; 1977, c. 617.
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