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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61859</law_id><section_number>8.01-5</section_number><catch_line>Effect of nonjoinder or misjoinder; limitation on joinder of insurance company</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-444</reference></referred_to_by><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="2">Parties</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No <span class="dictionary">action</span> or <span class="dictionary">suit</span> shall abate or be defeated by the nonjoinder or misjoinder of parties, <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> or <span class="dictionary">defendant</span>, but whenever such nonjoinder or misjoinder shall be made to appear by <span class="dictionary">affidavit</span> or otherwise, new parties may be added and parties misjoined may be dropped by <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> at any time as the ends of justice may require. <a id="paragraph-225893" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-5/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the joinder of any insurance company on account of the issuance to any <span class="dictionary">party</span> to a cause of any policy or <span class="dictionary">contract</span> of liability insurance, or on account of the issuance by any such company of any policy or <span class="dictionary">contract</span> of liability insurance for the benefit of or that will inure to the benefit of any <span class="dictionary">party</span> to any cause. <a id="paragraph-225894" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-5/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-96; 1954, c. 333; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
