53.1-222 - Powers and liabilities of committee; prosecution and defense of suits to which prisoner is party.
§ 53.1-222. Powers and liabilities of committee; prosecution and defense ofsuits to which prisoner is party.
A committee appointed pursuant to § 53.1-221 may sue and be sued in respectto all claims or demands of every nature in favor of or against such prisonerand against any of the prisoner's estate. All actions or suits to which theprisoner is a party at the time of his conviction shall be prosecuted ordefended, as the case may be, by such committee after ten days' notice of thependency thereof, which notice shall be given by the clerk of the court inwhich the same are pending.
(Code 1950, § 53-307; 1980, c. 504; 1982, c. 636.)