VIRGINIA

VIRGINIIA-CAUSE OF ACTION AND SOL

8.01-246. Personal actions based on contracts.

Subject to the provisions of § 8.01-243 regarding injuries to person and property and of § 8.01-245 regarding the application of limitations to fiduciaries, and their bonds, actions founded upon a contract, other than actions on a judgment or decree, shall be brought within the following number of years next after the cause of action shall have accrued:

4. In actions upon any unwritten contract, express or implied, within three years.

8.01-249. When cause of action shall be deemed to accrue in certain personal actions.

The cause of action in the actions herein listed shall be deemed to accrue as follows:

8. In actions on an open account, from

the later of the last payment or last charge for goods or services rendered on the account.

PLEASE NOTE- VA. DATES THE 3 YEARS FROM THE LATER OF YOUR LAST PAYMENT ON AN ACTIVE ACCOUNT OR YOUR LAST CHARGE ON THAT ACCOUNT

A debt based on a written contract (non-Uniform Commercial Code) the statute of limitation period is 5 years.

LINK TO VIRGINIA COMMERCIAL CODE WITH SOL FOR ALL OTHER CONTRACTS

Link to Virginia statutes on judgments

§ 16.1-94.1. Limitations on enforcement of district court judgments