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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80815</law_id><section_number>8.01-577</section_number><catch_line>Submission of controversy; agreement to arbitrate; condition precedent to action</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-77</reference><reference>4.1-409</reference><reference>4.1-508</reference><reference>45.2-1623</reference><reference>55.1-1828</reference><reference>55.1-1915</reference><reference>55.1-2169</reference><reference>59.1-358</reference><reference>8.01-581.12</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="21">Arbitration and Award</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> <span class="dictionary">Persons</span> desiring to end any controversy, whether there is a <span class="dictionary">suit</span> pending therefor or not, may submit the same to arbitration, and agree that such submission may be entered of record in any <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> or entered by <span class="dictionary">order</span> of any general district <span class="dictionary">court</span>. Upon proof of such agreement out of <span class="dictionary">court</span>, or by consent of the parties given in <span class="dictionary">court</span> in <span class="dictionary">person</span> or by <span class="dictionary">counsel</span>, it shall be entered in the proceedings of such <span class="dictionary">court</span>. Thereupon a rule shall be made that the parties shall submit to the award which shall be made in accordance with such agreement and the provisions of this chapter. <a id="paragraph-289671" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-577/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Neither <span class="dictionary">party</span> shall have the right to revoke an agreement to arbitrate except on a ground which would be good for revoking or annulling other agreements. Submission of any claim or controversy to arbitration pursuant to such agreement shall be a condition <span class="dictionary">precedent</span> to institution of <span class="dictionary">suit</span> or <span class="dictionary">action</span> thereon, and the agreement to arbitrate shall be enforceable, unless the agreement also provides that submission to arbitration shall not be a condition <span class="dictionary">precedent</span> to <span class="dictionary">suit</span> or <span class="dictionary">action</span>. <a id="paragraph-289672" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-577/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-503; 1968, c. 244; 1977, c. 617; 1983, c. 485; 1986, c. 614; 2016, c. 181.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
