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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67742</law_id><section_number>17.1-609</section_number><catch_line>Costs on certain motions and interlocutory orders</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Costs Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Upon any <span class="dictionary">motion</span>, other than for a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for money, or upon any <span class="dictionary">interlocutory order</span> or proceeding, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may give or refuse costs, at its discretion, unless otherwise provided. It may, when a <span class="dictionary">demurrer</span> is sustained to a <span class="dictionary">plea</span> in abatement, give <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> for the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> for his full costs, to the time of sustaining it, an attorney&#x2019;s fee only excepted; and when any other part of the pleading is adjudged insufficient, order all costs occasioned by such insufficient pleading to be paid by him who committed the fault.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 14-184; 1964, c. 386, &#xA7; 14.1-187; 1998, c. 872.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
