                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DAMAGES FROM VIOLATION OF STATUTE, REMEDY THEREFOR AND PENALTY (§ 8.01-221)

Any person injured by the violation of any statute may recover from the offender
such damages as he may sustain by reason of the violation, even though a penalty
or forfeiture for such violation be thereby imposed, unless such penalty or
forfeiture be expressly mentioned to be in lieu of such damages. And the damages
so sustained together with any penalty or forfeiture imposed for the violation
of the statute may be recovered in a single action when the same person is
entitled to both damages and penalty; but nothing herein contained shall affect
the existing statutes of limitation applicable to the foregoing causes of action
respectively.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-652; 1954, c. 333; 1977, c. 617.