8.01-11 - Proceedings on writing binding deceased person. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-11. Proceedings on writing binding deceased person.

A. A bond, note, or other written obligation to a person or persons who, orsome of whom, are dead at the time of its execution may be proceeded on inthe name of the personal representative of such person, or the survivors orsurvivor, or of the representative of the last survivor of such persons.

B. If one person bound either jointly or as a partner with another by ajudgment, bond, note, or otherwise for the payment of a debt, or theperformance or forbearance of an act, or for any other thing, die in thelifetime of such other, the representative of the decedent may be charged inthe same manner as the decedent might have been charged, if those boundjointly or as partners, had been bound severally as well as jointly,otherwise than as partners.

(Code 1950, §§ 8-92, 8-93; 1977, c. 617.)