8.01-256 - As to rights and remedies existing when this chapter takes effect. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-256. As to rights and remedies existing when this chapter takes effect.

No action, suit, scire facias, or other proceeding which is pending beforeOctober 1, 1977, shall be barred by this chapter, and any action, suit, scirefacias or other proceeding so pending shall be subject to the samelimitation, if any, which would have been applied if this chapter had notbeen enacted. If a cause of action, as to which no action, suit, scirefacias, or other proceeding is pending, exists before October 1, 1977, thenthis chapter shall not apply and the limitation as to such cause of actionshall be the same, if any, as would apply had this chapter not been enacted.Any new limitation period imposed by this chapter, where no limitationpreviously existed or which is different from the limitation existing beforethis chapter was enacted, shall apply only to causes or rights of actionaccruing on or after October 1, 1977.

(Code 1950, § 8-37; 1977, c. 617.)