All unincorporated associations or orders may sue and be sued under the name by which they are commonly known and called, or under which they do business, and judgments and executions against any such association or order shall bind its real and personal property in like manner as if it were incorporated.
Code 1950, § 8-66; 1962, c. 250; 1977, c. 617.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure
§ 8.01-5. Effect of nonjoinder or misjoinder; limitation on joinder of insurance company
§ 8.01-6. Amending pleading; relation back to original pleading
§ 8.01-6.1. Amendment of pleading changing or adding a claim or defense; relation back
§ 8.01-6.2. Amendment of pleading; relation back to original pleading; confusion in trade name
§ 8.01-6.3. Actions or suits against fiduciaries; style of the case; amendment of pleading
§ 8.01-7. When court may add new parties to suit
§ 8.01-10. Joinder of tenants in common
§ 8.01-11. Proceedings on writing binding deceased person
§ 8.01-12. Suit by beneficial owner when legal title in another
§ 8.01-13. Assignee or beneficial owner may sue in own name; certain discounts allowed
§ 8.01-14. Suit against assignor
§ 8.01-15. Suits by and against unincorporated associations or orders
§ 8.01-15.1. Anonymous plaintiff; motion for identification; factors to be considered by court
§ 8.01-15.2. Servicemembers Civil Relief Act; default judgment; appointment of counsel
§ 8.01-16. New parties may have continuance
§ 8.01-17. When party whose powers cease is defendant
§ 8.01-18. When suit discontinued unless revived
§ 8.01-19. Effect of marriage or change of name of party
§ 8.01-20. Effect of marriage, change of name or death on appeal
§ 8.01-20.1. Certification of expert witness opinion at time of service of process
§ 8.01-21. Judgment when death or disability occurs after verdict but before judgment
§ 8.01-22. When death or disability occurs as to any of several plaintiffs or defendants
§ 8.01-23. Decree in suit when number of parties exceeds 30 and one of them dies
§ 8.01-24. Writ of scire facias abolished; substitutes therefor