# Article 2 Pleadings Generally

This article is comprised of the following sections:

- §8.01-271 Compliance with Rules of Supreme Court
- §8.01-271.01 Electronic filings in civil actions in circuit court
- §8.01-271.1 Signing of pleadings, motions, and other papers; oral motions; sanctions
- §8.01-272 Pleading several matters; joining tort and contract claims; separate trial in discretion of court; counterclaims
- §8.01-273 Demurrer; form; grounds to be stated; amendment
- §8.01-273.1 Motion for judgment; motion to refer; Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act
- §8.01-274 Motion to strike defensive pleading in equity and at law; exceptions abolished
- §8.01-274.1 Motion or petition for rule to show cause for violation of court order
- §8.01-275 When action or suit not to abate for want of form; what defects not to be regarded
- §8.01-275.1 When service of process is timely
- §8.01-276 Demurrer to evidence and plea in abatement abolished; motion to strike evidence and written motion, respectively, to be used in lieu thereof
- §8.01-277 Defective process; motion to quash; untimely service; motion to dismiss
- §8.01-277.1 Objections to personal jurisdiction or defective process; what constitutes waiver
- §8.01-278 When plea of infancy not allowed; liability of infants for debts as traders; liability of infants on loans to defray expenses of education
- §8.01-279 When proof is unnecessary unless affidavit filed; handwriting; ownership; partnership or incorporation
- §8.01-280 Pleadings may be sworn to before clerk; affidavit of belief sufficient
- §8.01-281 Pleading in alternative; separate trial on motion of party