Simon v. Forer

How courts have described this case

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• describing three time periods in which a nonsuited claim may be recommenced
• “[A] statute of limitations is tolled when an action [is] commenced within the prescribed limitation period.”
• “We construe the term ‘original period of limitation’ to mean the original statute of limitations without any tolling of that statute while a nonsuited action is pending.”
• “we presume thatthe legislature ‘chose, with care,’ the specific words of the statute[; t]he act of choosing carefully some words necessarily implies others are omitted with equal care”
• “When the General Assembly uses two different terms in the same act, it is presumed to mean two different things.” (quoting Forst v. Rockingham Poultry Mktg. Coop., Inc., 222 Va. 270, 278, 279 S.E.2d 400, 404 (1981))
• relying on Revisers' Note in interpreting meaning of statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).