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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67039</law_id><section_number>8.01-160</section_number><catch_line>Defendant to give notice of claim for improvements</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="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="14">Ejectment</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> intends to claim allowance for improvements made upon the premises by himself or those under whom he claims, he shall file with his pleading a statement of his claim therefor, in case <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> be rendered for the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-829; 1954, c. 333; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
