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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>376769</law_id><section_number>8.01-11</section_number><catch_line>Proceedings on writing binding deceased person</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="12" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="2">Parties</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="2" identifier="2">Special Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">bond</span>, note, or other written obligation to a <span class="dictionary">person</span> or <span class="dictionary">persons</span> who, or some of whom, are dead at the time of its execution may be proceeded on in the name of the personal representative of such <span class="dictionary">person</span>, or the survivors or survivor, or of the representative of the last survivor of such <span class="dictionary">persons</span>. <a id="paragraph-1406735" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-11/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If one <span class="dictionary">person</span> bound either jointly or as a partner with another by a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>, <span class="dictionary">bond</span>, note, or otherwise for the payment of a debt, or the performance or forbearance of an act, or for any other thing, die in the lifetime of such other, the representative of the decedent may be charged in the same manner as the decedent might have been charged, if those bound jointly or as partners, had been bound severally as well as jointly, otherwise than as partners. <a id="paragraph-1406736" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.01-11/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 8-92, 8-93; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
