CODE OF VIRGINIA

COSTS ON CERTAIN MOTIONS AND INTERLOCUTORY ORDERS (§ 17.1-609)

Upon any motion, other than for a judgment for money, or upon any interlocutory
order or proceeding, the court may give or refuse costs, at its discretion,
unless otherwise provided. It may, when a demurrer is sustained to a plea in
abatement, give judgment for the plaintiff for his full costs, to the time of
sustaining it, an attorney’s fee only excepted; and when any other part of
the pleading is adjudged insufficient, order all costs occasioned by such
insufficient pleading to be paid by him who committed the fault.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 14-184; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-187; 1998, c. 872.