West Virginia Code
Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice
Article 6. Trial

§56-6-1. Law Docket - Before every term of a circuit court, or any other...

§56-6-2. Chancery Docket - Before every term of a circuit court, or any other...

§56-6-3. Application for Hearing - Any party asking the court to hear a case may,...

§56-6-4. Direction and Trial of Issues Out of Chancery - Any court, wherein is pending a chancery case in which...

§56-6-5. Trial of Action at Law; Separate Verdicts on Different Issues; Interrogatories to Jury - Any court of record having jurisdiction of the trial of...

§56-6-6. Time for Trial, Execution of Order and Rendering of Final Judgment - At the next term after an order at the rules...

§56-6-7. Continuance Upon Affidavit Because of Absence of Witness - If in any case a continuance be asked because of...

§56-6-8. Continuance of Causes at End of Term - All causes on the docket of any court, and all...

§56-6-9. Case Not to Be Discontinued by Failure to Sign Judgment - When a defendant has demurred to, filed a plea to,...

§56-6-10. Stay of Proceedings Until Other Action, Suit or Proceeding Decided - Whenever it shall be made to appear to any court,...

§56-6-11. Execution of Order of Inquiry and Trial of Case by Court; Six-Member Jury in Civil Trials; Twelve-Member Jury in Eminent Domain and Criminal Trials - (a) The court, in an action at law, if neither...

§56-6-12. Qualifications of Jurors; Examination on Voir Dire; Peremptory Challenges - Either party in any action or suit may, and the...

§56-6-12a. Alternate Jurors for Protracted Civil Cases; Qualifications and Challenges - In any civil case, whenever in the opinion of the...

§56-6-13. Special Jury in Civil Cases - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

§56-6-14. Juror Having Matter of Fact to Be Tried Disqualified - No person shall serve as a juror at any term...

§56-6-15. Exceptions Against Jurors After Being Sworn - No exception shall be allowed against a juror, after he...

§56-6-16. Irregularities Affecting the Jury; Time for Objection - No irregularity in any writ of venire facias, or in...

§56-6-17. View by Jury - The jury may, in any case, at the request of...

§56-6-18. Disclosure by Juror of Knowledge of Facts in Issue - A juror knowing anything relative to a fact in issue...

§56-6-19. Instructions to Jury Generally; Form and Manner of Giving - Upon the trial of any case, civil or criminal, before...

§56-6-20. Reading Instructions to Jury; Instructions Part of Record - All instructions given shall be read by the court to...

§56-6-21. Time for Examining Instructions, Objecting Thereto and Settlement Thereof - The court shall, in the absence of any rule for...

§56-6-22. Oral Instructions by Court; Written Instructions During Trial - Nothing in the three next preceding sections contained shall affect...

§56-6-23. Papers Taken by Jury - Depositions or other papers read in evidence may, by leave...

§56-6-24. Argument of Counsel - Not more than two counsel shall argue in a civil...

§56-6-25. Time Limitation as to Nonsuit - A party shall not be allowed to suffer a nonsuit,...

§56-6-26. How Verdict May Be Affected by Faulty Count - When there are several counts in a declaration, one or...

§56-6-27. Interest on Claim and Verdict - The jury, in any action founded on contract, may allow...

§56-6-28. New Trial - In any civil case or proceeding, the court before which...

§56-6-29. Judgment or Decree to Be for Aggregate of Principal and Interest to Date of Verdict - When there is a recovery on a bond conditioned for...

§56-6-30. Action on Contract for Payments in Installments or on Bond With Collateral Condition - In an action on an annuity bond, or a bond...

§56-6-31. Interest on Judgment or Decree - (a) Except where it is otherwise provided by law, every...

§56-6-32. Recovery Against One or More Contract Defendants - In an action or motion, founded on contract, against two...

§56-6-33. Judgment or Decree Against Personal Representative or Committee; Costs - A judgment or decree against any person as the personal...

§56-6-34. Issuance of Executions During Term - Any circuit court or other court of record, after the...

§56-6-35. Bills of Exceptions Generally - In the trial of a case at law in which...

§56-6-36. Certificate in Lieu of Bill of Exceptions - In lieu of the bill of exceptions provided by the...

§56-6-36a. Settling, Signing and Certifying Bill of Exceptions or Certificate in Lieu Thereof by Judge Other Than Judge Before Whom Case Was Tried - In the event of the death or resignation of, or...

§56-6-37. How Certificate of Trial Judge or Bills of Exceptions to Be Considered; Instructions in Transcript All Presumed to Be Given by Court - The appellate court in reviewing, upon a writ of error...

§56-6-38. Hearing of Chancery Causes in Open Court; Oral Testimony; Rules of Evidence; Transcript for Appeal - Chancery causes may, by leave of the court, and by...

§56-6-39. Hearing of Motion; Action or Chancery Cause in Vacation; Certification, Entry and Effect of Order or Decree - Any motion, civil action at law, or chancery cause, pending...

§56-6-40. Contempt Proceedings in Vacation - The judge of every circuit court or other court of...

§56-6-41. Certification and Entry of Vacation Orders - All orders and decrees made by a judge out of...