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WV Code § 56-9-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 9. Removal of Causes|§56-9-3. Transfer of Papers; Proceedings After Removal; Costs

When any case is ordered to be removed under this article, the clerk of the court, from which, shall transmit to the clerk of the court, to which, it is removed, the original papers therein, with copies of all rules and orders made, and a statement of the costs incurred by each party therein; whereupon, the case shall be proceeded in, heard and determined by the court to which it is removed, as if it had been brought, and the previous proceedings had, in such court. The costs attending such removal shall be charged as may be thought just by the court, from which, or, if it make no order on the subject, by the court to which, the case is removed.
WV Code § 56-10-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 10. Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Procedure|§56-10-1. Interpleader

A defendant in an action brought against him for the recovery of money which he does not wish to defend, but which money is claimed by some third person, or for the recovery of the possession of personal property to which he makes no claim, but which is claimed by a third person, may file his affidavit stating the facts in relation thereto, and that he does not collude with such third person but is ready to pay the money claimed, or deliver the property, to the owner thereof, as the court may direct, and the court may thereupon make an order requiring such third person to appear and state the nature of his claim, and maintain or relinquish the same, and may in the meantime stay the proceedings in such action. If such third person, on being served with a copy of such order, shall not appear, the court may, on proof of the plaintiff's right, render judgment for him and declare such third person to be forever barred of any claim in respect of the subject matter, either against the plaintiff or the original defendant, or his personal representative. If such third person, on being so served, shall appear, the court shall allow him to make himself defendant in the action and, either in such action or otherwise, cause such issue or issues to be tried as it may prescribe, and may direct which party shall be considered the plaintiff in the issues; and shall give judgment upon the verdict rendered or, if a jury be waived by the parties interested, shall determine their claims in a summary way. The court may also make such order for the disposition of the money or property which is the subject matter of the action, pending the same, as to it may seem proper, and may enter judgment as to costs as may be just and proper.
WV Code § 56-10-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 10. Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Procedure|§56-10-2. Who May Execute Bonds Required in Suits

A bond for obtaining any writ or order, in term or vacation, may be executed by any person with sufficient surety, though neither of the obligors be a party to the case.
WV Code § 56-10-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 10. Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Procedure|§56-10-3. Recovery of Damages for Detention of Property After Verdict

When a judgment for specific personal property is affirmed by an appellate court, or an injunction to such judgment is dissolved, the person who is entitled to execution of such judgment, or who would be entitled if execution had not been had, may, on motion to the court from which such execution has issued, or might issue, after twenty days' notice to the defendant or his personal representative, have a jury impaneled to ascertain the damages sustained by reason of the detention of such property subsequent to such judgment; or if it was on a verdict, subsequent to such verdict; and judgment shall be rendered for the damages so ascertained, if any.
WV Code § 56-10-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 10. Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Procedure|§56-10-5. Partition of Goods or Chattels

When an equal division of goods or chattels cannot be made in kind among those entitled, a court of equity may direct the sale of the same and the distribution of the proceeds according to the rights of the parties.
WV Code § 56-10-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 10. Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Procedure|§56-10-6. Affidavits by Corporations and Agents

An affidavit by or for a corporation may be made by its president, vice president, general manager, cashier, treasurer, or a director, without any special authorization therefor, or by any person authorized by a majority of its stockholders or directors to make the same; and when an affidavit is made by any person other than the principal authorized by law to make it, such person shall be deemed to have been the agent of the person so authorized until the contrary is made to appear.
WV Code § 56-10-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 10. Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Procedure|§56-10-7. Right of Circuit Judge to Hold Hearings and Enter Orders in Any County of Circuit Unless Objection Filed; Jury Cases Excepted

In any (a) appeal from or to review the judgment, order or ruling of any court of record or administrative agency, (b) appeal from a justice of the peace court, (c) ex parte proceeding, (d) adoption proceeding, (e) change of name proceeding, (f) summary procedure or proceeding, (g) eminent domain proceeding, (h) juvenile proceeding, (i) action wherein an extraordinary remedy is sought, such as mandamus, prohibition, certiorari, habeas corpus, quo warranto, or information in the nature of quo warranto, and (j) civil action instituted under the Rules of Civil Procedure for Trial Courts of Record, the judge of a judicial circuit may hold hearings, including but not limited to pretrial conferences, and enter orders in any county of his circuit although he is not physically present in the county in which such action, appeal or proceeding was instituted or is pending, unless there is objection thereto in writing, filed by one of the parties prior to such hearing or the entry of such order: Provided, That in any appeal, action or proceeding in which a jury trial has been demanded or exists as a matter of right, trial by jury shall be held only in the county wherein such appeal, action or proceeding is pending.
WV Code § 56-10-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 10. Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Procedure|§56-10-8. Priority of Cases Involving Placement of Children

Any action or motion which involves a contested issue regarding the permanent or temporary placement of a minor child shall be given priority over any civil action before the court except actions in which trial is in progress and actions brought under article twenty-seven, chapter forty-eight of this code and shall be docketed immediately upon filing.
WV Code § 56-11-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 11. Judicial Council for Study of Procedure and Practice|§56-11-1. To 56-11-11

Repealed.Acts, 1986 Reg. Sess., Ch. 153.
WV Code § 56-12-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 12. Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act|§56-12-1. Short Title

This article may be cited as the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act.
WV Code § 56-12-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 12. Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act|§56-12-2. Definitions

In this article:“Foreign jurisdiction” means a state other than this state.“Foreign subpoena” means a subpoena issued under authority of a court of record of a foreign jurisdiction.“Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.“State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.“Subpoena” means a document, however denominated, issued under authority of a court of record requiring a person to:(1) Attend and give testimony at a deposition;(2) Produce and permit inspection and copying of designated books, documents, records, electronically stored information or tangible things in the possession, custody or control of the person; or(3) Permit inspection of premises under the control of the person.
WV Code § 56-12-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 12. Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act|§56-12-3. Issuance of Subpoena

(a) To request issuance of a subpoena under this section, a party must submit a foreign subpoena to a clerk of court in the county in which discovery is sought to be conducted in this state. A request for the issuance of a subpoena under this act does not constitute an appearance in the courts of this state.(b) When a party submits a foreign subpoena to a clerk of court in this state, the clerk, in accordance with that court’s procedure, shall promptly issue a subpoena for service upon the person to which the foreign subpoena is directed.(c) A subpoena under subsection (b) of this section must:(1) Incorporate the terms used in the foreign subpoena; and (2) Contain or be accompanied by the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all counsel of record in the proceeding to which the subpoena relates and of any party not represented by counsel.
WV Code § 56-12-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 12. Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act|§56-12-4. Service of Subpoena

A subpoena issued by a clerk of court under section three of this article must be served in compliance with West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure.
WV Code § 56-12-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 12. Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act|§56-12-5. Deposition, Production and Inspection

The West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure apply to subpoenas issued under section three of this article.
WV Code § 56-12-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 12. Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act|§56-12-6. Application to Court

An application to the court for a protective order or to enforce, quash, or modify a subpoena issued by a clerk of court under section three of this article must comply with the rules or statutes of this state and be submitted to the court in the county in which discovery is to be conducted.
WV Code § 56-12-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 12. Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act|§56-12-7. Uniformity of Application and Construction

In applying and construing this article, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact the uniform act.
WV Code § 56-12-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice|Article 12. Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act|§56-12-8. Application to Pending Actions

This article applies to requests for discovery in cases pending on the effective date of this article.
WV Code § 57-1-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-1. Copies of Legislative Journals, Acts and Resolutions

Copies of the journal of either house of the Legislature, and copies of the acts and resolutions of the Legislature, which have been or shall hereafter be published by authority thereof, shall be received as evidence for any purpose for which the original journal, acts or resolutions could be received and with as much effect.
WV Code § 57-1-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-2. Local or Private Acts and Resolutions of Legislature; Judicial Notice Thereof

Local or private acts and resolutions of the Legislature may be given in evidence without being especially pleaded; and an appellate court shall take judicial notice of such as appear to have been relied on in the court below.
WV Code § 57-1-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-3. Copies of Virginia Laws

The printed copies of the acts and resolutions of the general assembly of Virginia and of the statutes and codes of that state, with the supplements to and continuations of the same, and the ordinances of the convention which assembled at Wheeling on June 11, eighteen hundred and sixty- one, shall continue to be received in evidence within this state, in like manner as they were receivable when it was part of the state of Virginia.
WV Code § 57-1-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-4. Judicial Notice of Foreign Laws

Whenever in any case it becomes material to ascertain what the law, statutory or other, of another state or country, or of the United States, is, or was at any time, the court, judge, or magistrate shall take judicial notice thereof, and may consult any printed book or other document, purporting to contain, state or explain the same, and consider any testimony, information or argument that is offered on the subject.
WV Code § 57-1-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-5. Notice by Courts and Officers of Signatures of Judges or Governor

All courts and officers shall take notice of the signature of any of the judges, or of the Governor, of this state, to any judicial or official documents.
WV Code § 57-1-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-6. Copies of Certain Deeds

Copies of deeds, acknowledged or proved and certified according to the act of the general assembly of Virginia, of the thirteenth of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, and placed upon record after the expiration of two years, the period prescribed by the act of the twenty-fifth of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, but before the passage of the act of the seventh of February, eighteen hundred and fourteen, shall be received in evidence, and have all the force and effect of copies of deeds recorded within two years, the period prescribed as aforesaid: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the rights of creditors and subsequent purchasers without notice.
WV Code § 57-1-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-7. Copies of Records, Bonds or Papers in Public Offices; Certificate of Auditor

A copy of any record, bond or paper in the office of the clerk of either house of the Legislature or of any court, or in the office of the Secretary of State, treasurer or Auditor, or in the office of the surveyor of lands of any county, or in the office of any other public officer, attested by the appropriate officer, which shall include the secretary of a board or commission, in whose office the same is, may be admitted as evidence in lieu of the original. The certificate of the Auditor of the fact and time of the return of any real estate as delinquent, or of the sale thereof for taxes, shall be prima facie evidence of what is stated in such certificate. Any such copy or certificate purporting to be sealed, or signed and sealed, or signed alone, by any such officer, may be admitted as evidence without any proof of the seal or signature, or of the official character, of the person whose name is signed to it. The certificate of the Auditor of the payment or nonpayment at any time of taxes on forfeited or delinquent lands, or of their not having been entered on the land books of the county or counties wherein the same were chargeable with taxes shall, in any suit in relation to such lands, be prima facie evidence of what is stated in such certificate, provided it be filed with the papers of said suit and notice thereof be given to the opposite party or his attorney at least twenty days before the first day of the term at which it is to be offered as evidence. When the certificate purports to be signed by the said Auditor, it may be admitted as evidence without proof of his signature.
WV Code § 57-1-7b (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-7b. Use of Photographic Copies in Evidence -- Business and Public Records; Destruction of Originals

If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling, or any officer of a local governmental agency, including county officers, county boards of education and municipalities, in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of the same to be recorded, copied or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business unless held in a custodial or fiduciary capacity or unless its preservation is required by law: Provided, however, That destruction of records of local governmental agencies shall also be contingent upon the approval by those agencies of such disposition. Such reproduction, when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not, and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under direction of court. The introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement of facsimile, does not preclude admission of the original.
WV Code § 57-1-7c (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-7c. Use of Microfilm or Microcards to Reproduce and Preserve Records; Destruction or Transfer of Originals to Archivist

The clerk of any court of record of the state may, with the approval of the court for which he or she is clerk, cause any or all records, papers, plats, or other documents kept by him or her to be reproduced on photographic microfilm or microcards and may, with the approval of the court for which he or she is clerk, record, keep and preserve any and all records, papers, plats, or other documents required by the laws of this state to be recorded or kept by said clerk or court exclusively upon photographic microfilm or microcards instead of in well-bound books or instead of by any other method heretofore prescribed by law.Such photographic microfilm and microcards shall be of durable material and possess good, archival qualities. The device used to reproduce such records on such film and cards shall be one which accurately reproduces the original thereof in all details.Such photographic microfilm and microcards shall be deemed to be an original record for all purposes, including introduction into evidence in all courts or administrative agencies. A transcript, exemplification, or photographic reproduction thereof shall, when properly authenticated by the clerk of such court, be deemed for all purposes to be a transcript, exemplification, or certified copy of the original.Such photographic microfilm and microcards shall be put in convenient, accessible fireproof files and adequate provision shall be made for preserving, examining and using the same.Any such records, papers, plats, or other documents not held for others by said clerk or court or required by law to be delivered to some other person, court, corporation or agency, may with the approval of the court keeping such records, papers, plats, or other documents be destroyed; but before any such records, papers, plats or other documents are authorized to be destroyed the court keeping them or the clerk thereof shall obtain the advice and counsel of the state historian or archivist, or his designated representatives, as to the desirability of placing the said records, papers, plats, or other documents in the department of archives and history. However, prior to destroying or otherwise disposing of the same, the court or clerk thereof shall give written notice of the intention to do so to the director of the section of archives and history of the Division of Culture and History. Upon the written request of the director, given to the court or clerk thereof within ten days of receipt of said notice, the court or clerk thereof shall retain the original record for a period of thirty days. In the event the director fails to retrieve the original document from the court or clerk thereof within the thirty-day period, the court or clerk thereof may destroy or otherwise dispose of the original without further notice to the director.
WV Code § 57-1-7d (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-7d. Records Provided on Computer or Optical Disc

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, where any provision of this code requires that a copy of any record of any branch of the government of this state be provided or delivered, the custodian of said record is authorized to comply with the requirement by providing or delivering a true copy in the form of a computer or optical disc which is not subject to alteration, is formatted to write once read many, and is attested by the custodian thereof to be a true, accurate and complete copy of the record required to be provided or delivered.
WV Code § 57-1-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-8. Copy of Writing Filed in One Suit May Be Filed in Another Suit on Same Writing

Such a copy of any writing filed in a suit may be filed in another suit on the same writing, and the defendant shall plead thereto as if the original were filed.
WV Code § 57-1-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 57. Evidence and Witnesses|Article 1. Legislative Acts and Resolutions; Public Records|§57-1-9. Application of §§57-1-7 and 57-1-8 to Records or Papers in Public Offices in Virginia

The provisions in the two preceding sections contained shall apply to a copy of any record or paper in the clerk's office of any court in the state of Virginia, or in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth, treasurer, register of the land office, or either Auditor, or any surveyor of lands of that state, attested as aforesaid; and to any certificate of the Auditor of public accounts of that state as to the return of any real estate as delinquent, or sale thereof for taxes, or payment or nonpayment of taxes on forfeited or delinquent lands, or nonentry of lands on the books of the commissioner of the revenue: Provided, That such certificate of the Auditor as to the payment or nonpayment of taxes on forfeited or delinquent lands, or nonentry of such lands on the books of the commissioner of the revenue, be filed with the papers in any suit in relation to such lands, and notice thereof be given to the opposite party or his attorney, at least forty days before the first day of the term at which it is offered as evidence.