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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73811</law_id><section_number>8.2-722</section_number><catch_line>Who can sue third parties for injury to goods</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="8.2">Commercial Code - Sales</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Remedies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Where a third <span class="dictionary">party</span> so deals with goods which have been identified to a <span class="dictionary">contract</span> for sale as to cause actionable injury to a <span class="dictionary">party</span> to that <span class="dictionary">contract</span></p></section>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> a right of action against the third <span class="dictionary">party</span> is in either <span class="dictionary">party</span> to the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> for sale who has title to or a security interest or a special property or an insurable interest in the goods; and if the goods have been destroyed or converted a right of action is also in the <span class="dictionary">party</span> who either bore the risk of loss under the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> for sale or has since the injury assumed that risk as against the other; <a id="paragraph-265399" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-722/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> if at the time of the injury the <span class="dictionary">party</span> <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> did not bear the risk of loss as against the other <span class="dictionary">party</span> to the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> for sale and there is no arrangement between them for <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> of the recovery, his suit or <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> is, subject to his own interest, as a fiduciary for the other <span class="dictionary">party</span> to the <span class="dictionary">contract</span>; <a id="paragraph-265400" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-722/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> either <span class="dictionary">party</span> may with the consent of the other sue for the benefit of whom it may concern. <a id="paragraph-265401" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-722/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
