                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

GENERAL RULE AS TO RECOVERY OF COSTS ON FINAL JUDGMENT (§ 17.1-601)

Except when it is otherwise provided, the party for whom final judgment is given
in an action or motion shall recover his costs against the opposite party. When
the action is against two or more and there is a judgment for, or discontinuance
as to, some, but not all of the defendants, unless the court enter of record
that there was reasonable cause for making defendants those for whom there is
such judgment, or as to whom there is such discontinuance and shall order
otherwise, they shall recover their costs.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 14-175; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-178; 1998, c. 872.