                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISMISSAL OF PROCEEDINGS PRIOR TO TRIAL ON ISSUE OF JUST COMPENSATION (§
25.1-248)

If a hearing has not begun in the trial of the issue of just compensation for
the taking or damaging of property and the petitioner has not already acquired
the title or a lesser interest or estate in, or taken possession of, such
property, the petitioner may upon motion obtain, as a matter of right, an order
dismissing the proceeding as to such property. Such order shall also provide,
except as may be provided otherwise in a settlement by agreement of the parties,
that the petitioner shall pay such owner or owners their reasonable expenses
that have been actually incurred by them in preparing for the trial on the issue
of just compensation, in such amounts as the court deems just and reasonable.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 4387; 1934, p. 514; Code 1950, § 25-22; 1962, c. 426, §
25-46.34; 1972, c. 742; 2003, c. 940.