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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65942</law_id><section_number>25.1-233</section_number><catch_line>Confirmation of report; exceptions to report</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>25.1-234</reference><reference>33.2-1013</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="25.1">Eminent Domain</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Condemnation Procedures</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Provisions Applicable to Determinations of Just Compensation</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The report of the <span class="dictionary">body determining just compensation</span> may be confirmed or set aside forthwith by the <span class="dictionary">court</span>. <a id="paragraph-239631" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/25.1-233/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> However, when the report is so filed and before the <span class="dictionary">court</span> passes thereon, either <span class="dictionary">party</span> shall have the right to file written exceptions to the report, which shall be filed not later than 10 days after the rendering of the report by the <span class="dictionary">body determining just compensation</span>. The <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall have the same power over the reports of the <span class="dictionary">body determining just compensation</span> as it now has over <span class="dictionary">verdicts</span> of juries in <span class="dictionary">civil actions</span>. <a id="paragraph-239632" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/25.1-233/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Upon <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> of exceptions to the report the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall not recall and question the members of the <span class="dictionary">body determining just compensation</span> as to the manner in which their report was determined unless there be an <span class="dictionary">allegation</span> in such written exceptions that <span class="dictionary">fraud</span>, collusion, corruption or improper conduct entered into the report. If such <span class="dictionary">allegation</span> is made, the <span class="dictionary">judge</span> shall summon the members of the <span class="dictionary">body determining just compensation</span> to appear and he alone shall question them concerning their actions. If the <span class="dictionary">court</span> be satisfied that <span class="dictionary">fraud</span>, collusion, corruption or improper conduct entered into the report of the <span class="dictionary">body determining just compensation</span>, the report shall be set aside and a new body to determine just compensation shall be empanelled to rehear the case. <a id="paragraph-239633" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/25.1-233/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> If the <span class="dictionary">court</span> be satisfied that no such <span class="dictionary">fraud</span>, collusion, corruption or improper conduct entered into the report of the <span class="dictionary">body determining just compensation</span>, or no other cause exists that would justify setting aside or modifying a <span class="dictionary">jury</span> <span class="dictionary">verdict</span> in <span class="dictionary">civil actions</span>, the report shall be confirmed. <a id="paragraph-239634" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/25.1-233/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7;&#xA7; 4368, 4369; Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 25-17, 25-18, 25-18.1; 1956, c. 563; 1962, c. 426, &#xA7; 25-46.21; 1991, c. 520; 2000, c. 1029; 2003, c. 940.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
