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1994 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8.01-266 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 8.01-266. Costs.
In any action which is transferred or retained for trial pursuant to this
chapter, the court in which the action is initially brought shall
may award an amount necessary to compensate a party for such
inconvenience, expense, and delay as he may have been caused by the
commencement of the suit in a forum to which an objection, pursuant to §
8.01-264, is sustained or by the bringing of a frivolous motion to transfer.
In addition, the court may award those attorney's fees deemed just and
reasonable which are occasioned by such commencement of a suit or by such
motion to transfer. The awarding of such costs by the transferor court shall
not preclude the assessment of costs by the clerk of the transferee court.