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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>377815</law_id><section_number>8.01-7</section_number><catch_line>When court may add new parties to suit</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="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In any case in which full justice cannot be done, or the whole controversy ended, without the presence of new parties to the <span class="dictionary">suit</span>, the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, by <span class="dictionary">order</span>, may direct the clerk to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> the proper process against such new parties, and, upon the maturing of the case as to them, proceed to make such <span class="dictionary">orders</span> or <span class="dictionary">decrees</span> as would have been proper if the new parties had been made parties at the commencement of the <span class="dictionary">suit</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-129; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
