                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

JOINDER AND SEVERANCE (§ 8.01-267.5)

Six or more parties may be joined initially as plaintiffs in a single action if
their claims involve common issues of fact and arise out of the same transaction
or occurrence or the same series of transactions or occurrences. On motion of a
defendant, the actions so joined shall be severed unless the court finds that
the claims of the plaintiffs were ones which, if they had been filed separately,
would have met the standards of § 8.01-267.1 and would have been consolidated
under § 8.01-267.3. If the court orders severance, the claims may proceed
separately upon payment of any appropriate filing fees due in the separate
circuit courts within sixty days of entry of the order. The date of the original
filing shall be the date of filing for each of the severed actions for purposes
of applying the statutes of limitations.

HISTORY: 1995, c. 555.