                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COSTS (§ 8.01-266)

In any action which is transferred or retained for trial pursuant to this
chapter, the court in which the action is initially brought may award an amount
necessary to compensate a party for such inconvenience, expense, and delay as he
may have been caused by the commencement of the suit in a forum to which an
objection, pursuant to § 8.01-264, is sustained or by the bringing of a
frivolous motion to transfer. In addition, the court may award those
attorney&#8217;s fees deemed just and reasonable which are occasioned by such
commencement of a suit or by such motion to transfer. The awarding of such costs
by the transferor court shall not preclude the assessment of costs by the clerk
of the transferee court.

HISTORY: 1977, c. 617; 1994, c. 32.