CHAPTER 468
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered

8-111.1, to provide for admission of facts and genuineness of docu-
ments without formal proof thereof in certain cases. oer
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Approved March 31, 1960
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
8-111.1 as follows:

§ 8-111.1. (a) After commencement of an action a party may serve
upon any other party a written request for the admission by the latter
of the genuineness of any relevant documents described in and exhibited
with the request or of the truth of any relevant matters of fact set forth
in the request. If a plaintiff desires to serve a request within ten days
after commencement of the action, leave of court, granted with or without
notice, must be obtained. Copies of the document shall be served with
the request unless copies have already been furnished. Each of the
matters of which an admission is requested shall be deemed admitted un-
less, within a period designated in the request, not less than ten days after
service thereof or within such shorter or longer time as the court may
allow on motion and notice, the party to whom the request is directed
serves upon the party requesting the admission either (1) a sworn state-
ment denying specifically the matters of which an admission is requested
or setting forth in detail the reasons why he cannot truthfully admit or
deny those matters or (2) written objections on the ground that some or
all of the requested admissions are privileged or irrelevant or that the
request is otherwise improper in whole or in part, together with a no-
tice of hearing the objections at the earliest practicable time. If written
objections to a part of the request are made, the remainder of the re-
quest shall be answered within the period designated in the request.
A denial shall fairly meet the substance of the requested admission, and
when good faith requires that a party deny only a part or a qualification
of a matter of which an admission is requested, he shall specify so much
of it as is true and deny only the remainder.

(b) Any admission made by a party pursuant to such request is for
the purpose of the pending action only and neither constitutes an ad-
mission by him for any other purpose nor may be used against him in
any other proceeding.