Davis v. County of Fairfax

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• holding that when a de novo appeal is taken to a circuit court, that court “obtain[s] appellate jurisdiction over [the] suit derivatively” from the lower court
• holding that where a party appealed a district court ruling to the circuit court and took a nonsuit, the appropriate place to reinstate the proceeding was the circuit court
• Jurisdiction of the Circuit Court is derivative of that of the General District Court.
• “[T]he rule is well settled that, if the court in which the action is brought has no jurisdiction of the subject matter, the appellate court will acquire none by the appeal.” (quoting Stacy v. Mullins, 185 Va. 837, 841 (1946))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).