{"law_id":"777180","section_number":"8.01-304","catch_line":"How process served on copartner or partnership","history":"Code 1950, \u00a7 8-59.1; 1950, p. 455; 1977, c. 617; 2005, c. 866.","order_by":null,"metadata":false,"court_decisions":{},"official_url":"http:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/8.01-304\/","refers_to":[{"id":"765291","section_number":"8.01-286.1","catch_line":"Service of process; waiver, duty to save costs, request to waive, how served","url":"\/8.01-286.1\/"}],"url":"\/8.01-304\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-304","structure":{"1":{"id":"54","name":"Who To Be Served","identifier":"4","label":"article","url":"\/8.01\/8\/4\/"},"2":{"id":"53","name":"Process","identifier":"8","label":"chapter","url":"\/8.01\/8\/"},"3":{"id":"52","name":"Civil Remedies And Procedure","identifier":"8.01","label":"title","url":"\/8.01\/"}},"referred_to_by":false,"edition_id":"11","section_id":"777180","structure_id":"54","full_text":"Subject to \u00a7 8.01-286.1, process against a copartner or partnership may be served upon a general partner, and it shall be deemed service upon the partnership and upon each partner individually named in the action, provided the person served is not a plaintiff in the suit and provided the matter in suit is a partnership matter.Provided further that process may be served upon a limited partner in any proceeding to enforce a limited partner’s liability to the partnership.","text":{"0":{"id":"2506145","text":"Subject to \u00a7 8.01-286.1, process against a copartner or partnership may be served upon a general partner, and it shall be deemed service upon the partnership and upon each partner individually named in the action, provided the person served is not a plaintiff in the suit and provided the matter in suit is a partnership matter.Provided further that process may be served upon a limited partner in any proceeding to enforce a limited partner’s liability to the partnership.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":{"1":{"id":"54","name":"Who To Be Served","identifier":"4","label":"article","url":"\/8.01\/8\/4\/"},"2":{"id":"53","name":"Process","identifier":"8","label":"chapter","url":"\/8.01\/8\/"},"3":{"id":"52","name":"Civil Remedies And Procedure","identifier":"8.01","label":"title","url":"\/8.01\/"}},"structure_contents":{"0":{"id":"772001","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-296","catch_line":"Manner of serving process upon natural persons","url":"\/8.01-296\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-296"},"1":{"id":"778606","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-297","catch_line":"Process on convict defendant","url":"\/8.01-297\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-297"},"2":{"id":"768394","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-298","catch_line":"How summons for witness or juror served","url":"\/8.01-298\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-298"},"3":{"id":"768300","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-299","catch_line":"How process served on domestic corporations generally","url":"\/8.01-299\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-299"},"4":{"id":"778790","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-300","catch_line":"How process served on municipal and county governments and on quasi-governmental entities","url":"\/8.01-300\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-300"},"5":{"id":"792935","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-301","catch_line":"How process served on foreign corporations generally","url":"\/8.01-301\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-301"},"6":{"id":"775246","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-302","catch_line":"Repealed","url":"\/8.01-302\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-302"},"7":{"id":"769671","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-303","catch_line":"On whom process served when corporation operated by trustee or receiver","url":"\/8.01-303\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-303"},"8":{"id":"777180","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-304","catch_line":"How process served on copartner or partnership","url":"\/8.01-304\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-304"},"9":{"id":"769232","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-305","catch_line":"Process against unincorporated associations or orders, or unincorporated common carriers","url":"\/8.01-305\/","token":"8.01\/8\/4\/8.01-305"},"10":{"id":"794371","structure_id":"54","section_number":"8.01-306","catch_line":"Process against unincorporated associations or orders, or unincorporated common carriers; 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1950, p. 455; 1977, c. 617; 2005, c. 866."}