                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

JURISDICTION OF PARTITION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY AND PROCEEDINGS THEREFOR (§
16.1-77.2)

Every general district court shall have jurisdiction of proceedings for
partition of personal property, within the limits as to value and in accordance
with the provisions hereinafter contained.
		When joint owners of personal property of the value of more than $20 but not
more than maximum jurisdictional limits of the court as provided in § 16.1-77
(1) cannot agree upon a partition thereof, any party in interest may compel
partition, the proceeding for which shall be commenced by a petition presented
to a general district court as prescribed in subdivision 5 of § 8.01-262. A
copy of the petition, together with a notice of the time and place the
petitioner will ask for a hearing thereon, shall be served on each of the
defendants at least 10 days prior to the day of hearing. The court shall hear
and decide the matter without the appointment or use of commissioners.
		Any party aggrieved by a final judgment rendered by the general district court
in any such proceeding shall have an appeal of right to any circuit court of the
county or city having jurisdiction of appeals from such general district court,
to be perfected within the time, and in all other respects in accordance with
the provisions of law concerning appeals from general district courts in other
civil cases.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-703; 1952, c. 252; 1972, c. 368; 1977, c. 624; 1983, c.
616; 2007, c. 869.