· 3/2/1990
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Major
Citations
- 389 S.E.2d 307
- 239 Va. 375
- 6 Va. Law Rep. 1588
- 1990 Va. LEXIS 34
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the deletion of a word during recodification plainly indicated the legislature’s intent to alter the substantive meaning of the code provision
- finding a “plainly indicate[d]” legislative intent “to alter the substantive meaning of the recodified provision” of the insurance law from “the change in language in the recodified provision,” notwithstanding the absence of a “revisors’ note” designating the revision as substantive
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Judges: Whiting
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