Tenant Remedies

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This is Article 4 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Tenant Remedies.” It is part of Chapter 12 “Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act”, which is part of Subtitle III “Rental Conveyances”, which is part of Title 55.1 “Property and Conveyances”. It contains 15 laws.

It’s comprised of the following 15 sections.

§ 55.1-1234	Noncompliance by landlord
§ 55.1-1234.1	Uninhabitable dwelling unit
§ 55.1-1235	Early termination of rental agreement by military personnel
§ 55.1-1236	Early termination of rental agreements by victims of family abuse, sexual abuse or other criminal sexual assault, or stalking
§ 55.1-1237	Notice to tenant in event of foreclosure
§ 55.1-1238	Failure to deliver possession
§ 55.1-1239	Wrongful failure to supply an essential service
§ 55.1-1240	Fire or casualty damage
§ 55.1-1241	Landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession for nonpayment of rent
§ 55.1-1242	Rent escrow required for continuance of tenant's case
§ 55.1-1243	Repealed
§ 55.1-1243.1	Tenant's remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit, interruption of services, or actions taken to make premises unsafe
§ 55.1-1243.2	Tenant's remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit due to condemnation
§ 55.1-1244	Tenant's assertion; rent escrow
§ 55.1-1244.1	Tenant's remedy by repair