                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWERS AND LIABILITIES OF COMMITTEE; PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE OF SUITS TO WHICH
PRISONER IS PARTY (§ 53.1-222)

A committee appointed pursuant to § 53.1-221 may sue and be sued in respect to
all claims or demands of every nature in favor of or against such prisoner and
against any of the prisoner&#8217;s estate. All actions or suits to which the
prisoner is a party at the time of his conviction shall be prosecuted or
defended, as the case may be, by such committee after ten days&#8217; notice of
the pendency thereof, which notice shall be given by the clerk of the court in
which the same are pending.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-307; 1980, c. 504; 1982, c. 636.