                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN ACTION OR SUIT NOT TO ABATE FOR WANT OF FORM; WHAT DEFECTS NOT TO BE
REGARDED (§ 8.01-275)

No action or suit shall abate for want of form where the motion for judgment or
bill of complaint sets forth sufficient matter of substance for the court to
proceed upon the merits of the cause. The court shall not regard any defect or
imperfection in the pleading, whether it has been heretofore deemed mispleading
or insufficient pleading or not, unless there be omitted something so essential
to the action or defense that judgment, according to law and the very right of
the cause, cannot be given.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 8-102, 8-109; 1954, c. 333; 1977, c. 617.