                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AS TO RIGHTS AND REMEDIES EXISTING WHEN THIS CHAPTER TAKES EFFECT (§ 8.01-256)

No action, suit, scire facias, or other proceeding which is pending before
October 1, 1977, shall be barred by this chapter, and any action, suit, scire
facias or other proceeding so pending shall be subject to the same limitation,
if any, which would have been applied if this chapter had not been enacted. If a
cause of action, as to which no action, suit, scire facias, or other proceeding
is pending, exists before October 1, 1977, then this chapter shall not apply and
the limitation as to such cause of action shall be the same, if any, as would
apply had this chapter not been enacted. Any new limitation period imposed by
this chapter, where no limitation previously existed or which is different from
the limitation existing before this chapter was enacted, shall apply only to
causes or rights of action accruing on or after October 1, 1977.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-37; 1977, c. 617.