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The Supreme Court of Virginia rules that a 60-foot wide ingress and egress easement must be interpreted by its terms and reverses a lower court ruling that denied injunctive relief because the essential purpose of the easement had been met. ...

Tagged with: Justice Donald W. Lemons Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

Because an underground sewer pipe was not physically apparent and the servient landowner had no notice of the existence of the pipe, the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses a trial court holding that an adjacent landowner had an easement by ...

Tagged with: Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

The Supreme Court of Virginia holds that the “early-vesting” rule of will construction establishes the date at which monetary payments are required by a will, so the payments are conditions subsequent rather than conditions precedent. Testator devised a life estate ...

Tagged with: Justice Charles S. Russell Supreme Court of Virginia Wills & Trusts

What are they thinking? Another week, another person charged with having drugs while coming to court for a different offense. Earlier this month, we reported on a guy in Suffolk who emptied his pockets to go through a metal detector ...

Senior U.S. District Judge Richard L. Willliams tried to do right by the defendant. Facing a firearm charge, defendant James Eugene Venable appeared in Richmond federal court to ask the judge to give him a new public defender, someone different ...

For years I wrestled with bouts of insomnia. I spent many nights tossing and turning and anxiously watching the clock waiting for sleep to come. Then, miraculously, the insomnia stopped about a year ago, as if by magic. For the ...

Tagged with: Health & Wellness

A Northern Virginia judge has given a woman ownership of her house, free of any of the $1.1 million in liens fraudulently racked up by her ex-husband before he disappeared. In the case, there was no question who the bad ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Craig D. Johnston Prince William Circuit Court

The Supreme Court of Virginia will hear the appeal of a woman who contends that a judge in Richmond erred in holding that the continuous treatment rule did not toll the statute of limitations in a medical malpractice case. The ...

Tagged with: Criminal Medical Malpractice Products Liability Sanctions

The Supreme Court of Virginia will hear the appeal of a woman who contends that a judge in Richmond erred in holding that the continuous treatment rule did not toll the statute of limitations in a medical malpractice case. The ...

Tagged with: Supreme Court of Virginia

When the General Assembly enacted equitable distribution in 1982 as the mechanism for dividing the property of divorcing spouses, it created a presumption that property acquired during the marriage is marital – the property of both spouses. The legislature created ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Justice Charles S. Russell Supreme Court of Virginia News