§ 8.01-166 How defendant may apply therefor, and have judgment suspended.
§ 8.01-167 How damages of plaintiff assessed.
§ 8.01-168 For what time.
§ 8.01-169 How value of improvements determined in favor of defendant.
§ 8.01-170 If allowance for improvements exceed damages, what to be done.
§ 8.01-171 Verdict for balance, after offsetting damages against improvements.
§ 8.01-172 Balance for defendant a lien on the land.
§ 8.01-173 How tenant for life, paying for improvements, reimbursed.
§ 8.01-174 Exception as to mortgagees and trustees.
§ 8.01-175 When plaintiff may require his estate only to be valued; how determined; how he may elect to relinquish his title to defendant.
§ 8.01-176 How payment of such value to be made by defendant; when land sold therefor.
§ 8.01-177 When such value to be deemed real estate.
§ 8.01-178 When and how defendant, if evicted, may recover from plaintiff amount paid.
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Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 8.01 > Chapter 3 > Article 15 - Improvements.

  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Appliance: means a permanent or removable device used in a plan of dental care, including crowns, fillings, bridges, braces, dentures, orthodontic aligners, and sleep apnea devices. See Virginia Code 54.1-2700
  • Board: means the Board of Dentistry. See Virginia Code 54.1-2700
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dental hygiene: means duties related to patient assessment and the rendering of educational, preventive, and therapeutic dental services specified in regulations of the Board and not otherwise restricted to the practice of dentistry. See Virginia Code 54.1-2700
  • Dental hygienist: means a person who is licensed by the Board to practice dental hygiene. See Virginia Code 54.1-2700
  • Dentist: means a person who has been awarded a degree in and is licensed by the Board to practice dentistry. See Virginia Code 54.1-2700
  • Dentistry: means the evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment, through surgical, nonsurgical, or related procedures, of diseases, disorders, and conditions of the oral cavity and the maxillofacial, adjacent, and associated structures and their impact on the human body. See Virginia Code 54.1-2700
  • Digital work order: means the digital equivalent of a written dental laboratory work order used in the construction or repair of an appliance. See Virginia Code 54.1-2700
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • License: means the document issued to an applicant upon completion of requirements for admission to practice dentistry or dental hygiene in the Commonwealth or upon registration for renewal of license to continue the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene in the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 54.1-2700
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Person: shall include individuals, a trust, an estate, a partnership, an association, an order, a corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity;

    6. See Virginia Code 8.01-2

  • Personal representative: includes the executor of a will or the administrator of the estate of a decedent, the administrator of such estate with the will annexed, the administrator of such estate unadministered by a former representative, whether there is a will or not, any person who is under the order of a circuit court to take into his possession the estate of a decedent for administration, and every other curator of a decedent's estate, for or against whom suits may be brought for causes of action that accrued to or against the decedent. See Virginia Code 1-234
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights and appurtenances thereto and interests therein, other than a chattel interest. See Virginia Code 1-219
  • Remainderman: One entitled to the remainder of an estate after a particular reserved right or interest, such as a life tenancy, has expired.
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.