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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56924</law_id><section_number>59.1-502.13</section_number><catch_line>Determining attribution</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>59.1-501.17</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="43">Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Formation and Terms</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> An electronic authentication, display, message, record, or performance is attributed to a person if it was the act of the person or its electronic agent, or if the person is bound by it under agency or other <span class="dictionary">law</span>. The <span class="dictionary">party</span> relying on attribution of an electronic authentication, display, message, record, or performance to another person has the burden of establishing attribution. <a id="paragraph-208504" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.13/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> The act of a person may be shown in any manner, including a showing of the efficacy of an attribution procedure that was agreed to or adopted by the parties or established by <span class="dictionary">law</span>. <a id="paragraph-208505" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.13/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> The effect of an electronic act attributed to a person under subsection (a) is determined from the context at the time of its creation, execution, or adoption, including the parties&#x2019; agreement, if any, or otherwise as provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>. <a id="paragraph-208506" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.13/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> If an attribution procedure exists to detect errors or changes in an electronic authentication, display, message, record, or performance, and was agreed to or adopted by the parties or established by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, and one <span class="dictionary">party</span> conformed to the procedure but the other <span class="dictionary">party</span> did not, and the nonconforming <span class="dictionary">party</span> would have detected the change or error had that <span class="dictionary">party</span> also conformed, the effect of noncompliance is determined by the agreement but, in the absence of agreement, the conforming <span class="dictionary">party</span> may avoid the effect of the error or change. <a id="paragraph-208507" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-502.13/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, cc. 101, 996.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
