Code of Virginia
Chapter 14 - Evidence
§ 8.01-420.1. Abolition of common-law perpetuation of testimony

The common-law proceeding to perpetuate testimony is abolished.
1977, c. 617.

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Code of Virginia

Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure

Chapter 14 - Evidence

§ 8.01-385. Definitions

§ 8.01-386. Judicial notice of laws (Supreme Court Rule 2:202 derived in part from this section)

§ 8.01-387. Notice by courts and officers of signatures of judges and Governor

§ 8.01-388. Judicial notice of official publications (Supreme Court Rule 2:203 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-389. Judicial records as evidence; full faith and credit; recitals in deeds, deeds of trust, and mortgages; "records" defined; certification

§ 8.01-390. Nonjudicial records as evidence (Subdivision (10)(a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:803 derived from subsection C of this section)

§ 8.01-390.1. School records as evidence

§ 8.01-390.2. Reports by Chief Medical Examiner received as evidence

§ 8.01-390.3. Business records as evidence (Subdivision (6) of Supreme Court Rule 2:902 derived in part from this section)

§ 8.01-391. Copies of originals as evidence (Subdivision (6) of Supreme Court Rule 2:902 derived in part from subsection D of this section and Supreme Court Rule 2:1005 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-391.1. Substitute checks as evidence (Supreme Court Rule 2:1003 derived from subsections a and B of this section)

§ 8.01-392. When court order book or equivalent is lost or illegible, what matters may be reentered

§ 8.01-393. When book or paper or equivalent in clerk's office lost, destroyed, or illegible to be again recorded

§ 8.01-394. How contents of any such lost record, etc., proved

§ 8.01-395. Validating certain proceedings under § 8.01-394

§ 8.01-396. No person incompetent to testify by reason of interest, or because a party

§ 8.01-396.1. Competency of witness

§ 8.01-397. Corroboration required and evidence receivable when one party incapable of testifying (subdivision (b)(5) of Supreme Court Rule 2:804 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-397.1. Evidence of habit or routine practice; defined (Supreme Court Rule 2:406 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-398. Privileged marital communications (Subsection (a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:504 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-399. Communications between physicians and patients (Supreme Court Rule 2:505 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-400. Communications between ministers of religion and persons they counsel or advise (Supreme Court Rule 2:503 derived in part from this section)

§ 8.01-400.1. Privileged communications by interpreters for the deaf (Supreme Court Rule 2:507 derived in part from this section)

§ 8.01-400.2. Communications between certain mental health professionals and clients (Supreme Court Rule 2:506 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-401. How adverse party may be examined; effect of refusal to testify (subsection (b) of Supreme Court Rule 2:607 and subsection (c) of Supreme Court Rule 2:611 derived from subsection a of this section)

§ 8.01-401.1. Opinion testimony by experts; hearsay exception (subsection (a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:703, subsection (a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:705, and subsection (a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:706 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-401.2. Chiropractor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant as expert witness

§ 8.01-401.2:1. Podiatrist as an expert witness

§ 8.01-401.3. Opinion testimony and conclusions as to facts critical to civil case resolution (Supreme Court Rule 2:701 derived from subsection B of this section, subdivision (a)(i) of Supreme Court Rule 2:702 derived from subsection a of this sectio...

§ 8.01-402. Members of Department of Motor Vehicles' Crash Investigation Team not to be required to give evidence in certain cases

§ 8.01-403. Witness proving adverse; contradiction; prior inconsistent statement (Subsection (c) of Supreme Court Rule 2:607 and subdivision (a)(i) of Supreme Court Rule 2:613 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-404. Contradiction by prior inconsistent writing (Subdivision (b)(i) of Supreme Court Rule 2:613 derived in part from this section and subdivision (b)(ii) of Supreme Court Rule 2:613 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-405. Who may administer oath to witness

§ 8.01-406. Interpreters; recording testimony of deaf witness (Supreme Court Rule 2:604 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-407. How summons for witness issued, and to whom directed; prior permission of court to summon certain officials and judges

§ 8.01-407.1. Identity of persons communicating anonymously over the Internet

§ 8.01-408. Recognizance taken upon continuance of case

§ 8.01-409. When court may have process for witness executed by its own officer in another county or city

§ 8.01-410. Inmates as witnesses in civil actions

§ 8.01-411. Repealed

§ 8.01-412.2. Authorization of audio-visual deposition; official record; uses

§ 8.01-412.3. Notice of audio-visual deposition

§ 8.01-412.4. Procedure

§ 8.01-412.5. Costs

§ 8.01-412.6. Promulgation of rules for standards and guidelines

§ 8.01-412.7. Short title

§ 8.01-412.8. Short title

§ 8.01-412.9. Definitions

§ 8.01-412.10. Issuance of subpoena

§ 8.01-412.11. Service of subpoena

§ 8.01-412.12. Deposition, production, and inspection

§ 8.01-412.13. Application to court

§ 8.01-412.14. Uniformity of application and construction; reciprocal privileges

§ 8.01-412.15. Application to pending actions

§ 8.01-413. Certain copies of health care provider's health records of patient admissible; right of patient, his attorney and authorized insurer to copies of such health records; subpoena; damages, costs and attorney fees

§ 8.01-413.01. Authenticity and reasonableness of medical bills; presumption

§ 8.01-413.02. Admissibility of written reports or records of blood alcohol tests conducted in the regular course of providing emergency medical treatment

§ 8.01-413.1. Certain copies of employment records or papers admissible; right of employee or his attorney to copies of such records or papers; subpoena; damages, costs and attorney's fees

§ 8.01-414. Affidavit prima facie evidence of nonresidence

§ 8.01-415. Affidavit evidence of publication

§ 8.01-416. Affidavit re damages to motor vehicle

§ 8.01-417. Copies of written statements or transcriptions of verbal statements by injured person to be delivered to him; copies of subpoenaed documents to be provided to other party; disclosure of insurance policy limits

§ 8.01-417.01. Disclosure of certain homeowners insurance and personal injury liability insurance policy limits

§ 8.01-417.1. Use of portions of documents in evidence (Subsection (b) of Supreme Court Rule 2:106 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-418. When plea of guilty or nolo contendere or forfeiture in criminal prosecution or traffic case admissible in civil action; proof of such plea

§ 8.01-418.1. Evidence of subsequent measures taken not admissible to prove negligence (Supreme Court Rule 2:407 derived from this section)

§ 8.01-418.2. Evidence of polygraph examination inadmissible in any proceeding

§ 8.01-418.3. Repealed

§ 8.01-419. Table of life expectancy

§ 8.01-419.1. Motor vehicle value

§ 8.01-420. Depositions as basis for motion for summary judgment or to strike evidence

§ 8.01-420.01. Limiting further disclosure of discoverable materials and information; protective order

§ 8.01-420.1. Abolition of common-law perpetuation of testimony

§ 8.01-420.2. Limitation on use of recorded conversations as evidence

§ 8.01-420.3. Court reporters to provide transcripts; when recording may be stopped; use of transcript as evidence

§ 8.01-420.4. Taking of depositions

§ 8.01-420.4:1. Taking of depositions; corporate officers

§ 8.01-420.5. Estoppel effect of judicial determination of employment status

§ 8.01-420.6. Number of witnesses whose depositions may be taken

§ 8.01-420.7. Attorney-client privilege and work product protection; limitations on waiver

§ 8.01-420.8. Protection of confidential information in court files