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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60317</law_id><section_number>8.01-27</section_number><catch_line>Civil action on note or writing promising to pay money</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="2">Actions on Contracts Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">civil action</span> may be maintained upon any note or writing by which there is a promise, undertaking, or obligation to pay money, if the same be signed by the <span class="dictionary">party</span> who is to be charged thereby, or his agent. The action may also be maintained on any such note or writing for any past due installment on a debt payable in installments, although other installments thereof be not due.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-509; 1954, c. 333; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
