8.01-27 - Civil action on note or writing promising to pay money. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-27. Civil action on note or writing promising to pay money.

A civil action may be maintained upon any note or writing by which there is apromise, undertaking, or obligation to pay money, if the same be signed bythe party who is to be charged thereby, or his agent. The action may also bemaintained on any such note or writing for any past due installment on a debtpayable in installments, although other installments thereof be not due.

(Code 1950, § 8-509; 1954, c. 333; 1977, c. 617.)