                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCEEDINGS ON WRITING BINDING DECEASED PERSON (§ 8.01-11)

A. A bond, note, or other written obligation to a person or persons who, or some
of whom, are dead at the time of its execution may be proceeded on in the name
of the personal representative of such person, or the survivors or survivor, or
of the representative of the last survivor of such persons.

B. If one person bound either jointly or as a partner with another by a
judgment, bond, note, or otherwise for the payment of a debt, or the performance
or forbearance of an act, or for any other thing, die in the lifetime of such
other, the representative of the decedent may be charged in the same manner as
the decedent might have been charged, if those bound jointly or as partners, had
been bound severally as well as jointly, otherwise than as partners.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 8-92, 8-93; 1977, c. 617.