17.1-609 - Costs on certain motions and interlocutory orders.
§ 17.1-609. Costs on certain motions and interlocutory orders.
Upon any motion, other than for a judgment for money, or upon anyinterlocutory order or proceeding, the court may give or refuse costs, at itsdiscretion, unless otherwise provided. It may, when a demurrer is sustainedto a plea in abatement, give judgment for the plaintiff for his full costs,to the time of sustaining it, an attorney's fee only excepted; and when anyother part of the pleading is adjudged insufficient, order all costsoccasioned by such insufficient pleading to be paid by him who committed thefault.
(Code 1950, § 14-184; 1964, c. 386, § 14.1-187; 1998, c. 872.)