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WV Code § 55-10-22 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-22. Change of Award by Arbitrator

(a) On motion to an arbitrator by a party to an arbitration proceeding, the arbitrator may modify or correct an award:(1) Upon a ground stated in section twenty-six of this article;(2) Because the arbitrator has not made a final and definite award upon a claim submitted by the parties to the arbitration proceeding; or(3) To clarify the award.(b) A motion under subsection (a) of this section must be made and notice given to all parties within twenty days after the moving party receives notice of the award.(c) A party to the arbitration proceeding must give notice of any objection to the motion within ten days after receipt of the notice.(d) If a motion to the court is pending under section twenty-four, twenty-five or twenty-six of this article, the court may submit the claim to the arbitrator to consider whether to modify or correct the award:(1) Upon a ground stated in section twenty-four of this article;(2) Because the arbitrator has not made a final and definite award upon a claim submitted by the parties to the arbitration proceeding; or(3) To clarify the award.(e) An award modified or corrected pursuant to this section is subject to sections twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-five and twenty-six of this article.
WV Code § 55-10-23 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-23. Remedies; Fees and Expenses of Arbitration Proceeding

(a) An arbitrator may award punitive damages or other exemplary relief if such an award is authorized by law in a civil action involving the same claim and the evidence produced at the hearing justifies the award under the legal standards otherwise applicable to the claim.(b) An arbitrator may award reasonable attorney's fees and other reasonable expenses of arbitration if such an award is authorized by law in a civil action involving the same claim or by the agreement of the parties to the arbitration proceeding.(c) As to all remedies other than those authorized by subsections (a) and (b) of this section, an arbitrator may order such remedies as the arbitrator considers just and appropriate under the circumstances of the arbitration proceeding. The fact that such a remedy could not or would not be granted by the court is not a ground for refusing to confirm an award under section twenty-four of this article or for vacating an award under section twenty-three of this article.(d) An arbitrator's award shall provide for the payment of expenses and fees, together with other expenses to be split among the parties, as provided by the parties' agreement or the rules of the arbitration organization.(e) If an arbitrator awards punitive damages or other exemplary relief under subsection (a) of this section, the arbitrator shall specify in the award the basis in fact justifying and the basis in law authorizing the award and state separately the amount of the punitive damages or other exemplary relief.
WV Code § 55-10-24 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-24. Confirmation of Award

After a party to an arbitration proceeding receives notice of an award, the party may make a motion to the court for an order confirming the award at which time the court shall issue a confirming order unless the award is modified or corrected pursuant to section twenty-two or twenty-six of this article or is vacated pursuant to section twenty-five of this article.
WV Code § 55-10-25 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-25. Vacating Award

(a) Upon motion to the court by a party to an arbitration proceeding, the court shall vacate an award made in the arbitration proceeding if:(1) The award was procured by corruption, fraud or other undue means;(2) There was:(A) Evident partiality by an arbitrator appointed as a neutral arbitrator;(B) Corruption by an arbitrator; or(C) Misconduct by an arbitrator prejudicing the rights of a party to the arbitration proceeding;(3) An arbitrator refused to postpone the hearing upon showing of sufficient cause for postponement, refused to consider evidence material to the controversy or otherwise conducted the hearing contrary to section seventeen of this article, so as to prejudice substantially the rights of a party to the arbitration proceeding;(4) An arbitrator exceeded the arbitrator's powers;(5) There was no agreement to arbitrate, unless the person participated in the arbitration proceeding without raising the objection under section seventeen of this article not later than the beginning of the arbitration hearing; or(6) The arbitration was conducted without proper notice of the initiation of an arbitration as required in section nine so as to prejudice substantially the rights of a party to the arbitration proceeding.(b) A motion under this section must be filed within ninety days after the moving party receives notice of the award pursuant to section twenty-one of this article or within ninety days after the moving party receives notice of a modified or corrected award pursuant to section twenty-two of this article, unless the moving party alleges that the award was procured by corruption, fraud or other undue means, in which case the motion must be made within ninety days after the ground is known or by the exercise of reasonable care would have been known by the moving party.(c) If the court vacates an award on a ground other than that set forth in subdivision (5), subsection (a) of this section, it may order a rehearing. If the award is vacated on a ground stated in subdivision (1) or (2), subsection (a) of this section, the rehearing must be before a new arbitrator. If the award is vacated on a ground stated in subdivision (3), (4) or (6), subsection (a) of this section, the rehearing may be before the arbitrator who made the award or the arbitrator's successor. The arbitrator must render the decision in the rehearing within the same time as that provided in section twenty-one of this article for an award.(d) If the court denies a motion to vacate an award, it shall confirm the award unless a motion to modify or correct the award is pending.
WV Code § 55-10-26 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-26. Modification or Correction of Award

(a) Upon motion made within ninety days after the moving party receives notice of the award pursuant to section nineteen of this article or within ninety days after the moving party receives notice of a modified or corrected award pursuant to section twenty-two of this article, the court shall modify or correct the award if:(1) There was an evident mathematical miscalculation or an evident mistake in the description of a person, thing or property referred to in the award;(2) The arbitrator has made an award on a claim not submitted to the arbitrator and the award may be corrected without affecting the merits of the decision upon the claims submitted; or(3) The award is imperfect in a matter of form not affecting the merits of the decision on the claims submitted.(b) If a motion made under subsection (a) of this section is granted, the court shall modify or correct and confirm the award as modified or corrected. Otherwise, unless a motion to vacate is pending, the court shall confirm the award.(c) A motion to modify or correct an award pursuant to this section may be joined with a motion to vacate the award.
WV Code § 55-10-27 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-27. Judgment on Award; Attorneys' Fees and Litigation Expenses

(a) Upon granting an order confirming, vacating without directing a rehearing, modifying or correcting an award, the court shall enter a judgment in conformity therewith. The judgment may be recorded, docketed and enforced as any other judgment in a civil action.(b) A court may allow reasonable costs of the motion and subsequent judicial proceedings.(c) On application of a prevailing party to a contested judicial proceeding under section twenty-four, twenty-five or twenty-six of this article, the court may add reasonable attorneys' fees and other reasonable expenses of litigation incurred in a judicial proceeding after the award is made to a judgment confirming, vacating without directing a rehearing, modifying or correcting an award.
WV Code § 55-10-28 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-28. Jurisdiction

(a) A court of this state having jurisdiction over the controversy and the parties may enforce an agreement to arbitrate.(b) An agreement to arbitrate providing for arbitration in this state confers exclusive jurisdiction on the court to enter judgment on an award under this article.
WV Code § 55-10-29 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-29. Venue

A motion pursuant to section seven of this article must be made in the circuit court of the county in which the agreement to arbitrate specifies the arbitration hearing is to be held or, if the hearing has been held, in the circuit court of the county in which it was held. Otherwise, the motion may be made in the court of any county in which an adverse party resides or has a place of business or, if no adverse party has a residence or place of business in this state, in the circuit court of Kanawha County, West Virginia. All subsequent motions must be made in the court hearing the initial motion unless the court otherwise directs.
WV Code § 55-10-30 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-30. Appeals

(a) An appeal may be taken from:(1) An order denying a motion to compel arbitration;(2) An order granting or denying a motion to compel arbitration issued in an action filed pursuant to the provisions of chapter forty-six-a of this code;(3) An order granting a motion to stay arbitration;(4) An order confirming or denying confirmation of an award;(5) An order modifying or correcting an award;(6) An order vacating an award without directing a rehearing; or(7) A final judgment entered pursuant to this article.(b) An appeal under this section must be taken as from an order or a judgment in a civil action.
WV Code § 55-10-31 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-31. Uniformity of Application and Construction

In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
WV Code § 55-10-32 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-32. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

The provisions of this article governing the legal effect, validity or enforceability of electronic records or signatures, and of contracts performed with the use of such records or signatures, shall conform to the requirements of Section 102 of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, Pub. L. No. 106-229, 114 Stat. 464 (2000).
WV Code § 55-10-33 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 10. Arbitration|§55-10-33. Savings Clause

This article does not affect an action or proceeding commenced or right accrued before this article takes effect.
WV Code § 55-11-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 11. Lis Pendens|§55-11-1. Lis Pendens Record

There shall be kept in the office of the clerk of the county court of each county of this state a book to be called the "lis pendens record," which shall be a public record.
WV Code § 55-11-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 11. Lis Pendens|§55-11-2. Notice of Lis Pendens; Recordation and Indexing Thereof

Whenever any person shall commence a suit, action, attachment, or other proceeding, whether at law or in equity, to enforce any lien upon, right to, or interest in designated real estate, the pendency of such suit, action, attachment or other proceeding shall not operate as constructive notice thereof to any pendente lite purchaser or encumbrancer of such real estate for a valuable consideration and without notice, until such person shall file for recordation with the clerk of the county court of each county where the real estate sought to be affected is situated, a memorandum or notice of the pendency of such suit, action, attachment or other proceeding, stating the title of the cause, the court in which it is pending, the names of all the parties to such proceeding, a description of the real estate to be affected, the nature of the lien, right or interest sought to be enforced against the same, and name of the person whose estate therein is intended to be affected: Provided, however, That where the lien, right or interest asserted is based upon a judgment, decree, claim, contract or other instrument which has been docketed or recorded according to law in the office of the clerk of the county court of the county wherein the real estate is situated, and has thus become a matter of public record, the failure to file the notice herein mentioned shall not operate to defeat the enforcement of such lien, right or interest in the real estate as against such pendente lite purchaser or encumbrancer.The clerk of every such county court shall, without delay, record such memorandum or notice in the "lis pendens record," note upon the record the day and hour when such notice was filed for recordation, and index the same in the names of the parties.
WV Code § 55-11-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 11. Lis Pendens|§55-11-3. Limitations on Notice of Lis Pendens

Constructive notice of the pendency of a suit, action, attachment or other proceeding, arising from the filing for recordation of a notice or memorandum in accordance with the provisions of section two of this article, shall continue to operate as constructive notice thereof to any pendente lite purchaser or encumbrancer of the real estate affected, for a period of ten years next after the date when such notice was filed for recordation. Where constructive notice arises as aforesaid, that notice may be renewed or extended for additional ten year periods by the filing for recordation, as provided in section two of this article, a similar memorandum or notice of lis pendens within ten years from the date of recordation of the last such memorandum or notice.
WV Code § 55-12-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 12. Judicial Sales|§55-12-1. Order for Sale of Property; Terms; Sale by Special Commissioner or Receiver; Bond; Deposit of Proceeds; Penalties

A court, in a suit properly pending therein, may make a decree or order for the sale of property in any part of the state, and may direct the sale to be for cash, or on such credit and terms as it may deem best; and it may appoint a special commissioner or special receiver to make such sale. Every special commissioner or special receiver appointed under this section shall be a resident of the State of West Virginia, and he shall make no sale and shall receive no money under a decree or order until he give a bond with approved security before the said court or its clerk, conditioned as the law requires for the faithful accounting therefor and with the further condition that he will deposit in his name as such special commissioner or special receiver all moneys received by him as such special commissioner or special receiver in one or more banks in the county in which the suit or cause is properly instituted, and will not remove the same therefrom without the order or decree of distribution of the presiding judge; and any special commissioner or special receiver violating the conditions of his bond or the provisions of this section by making a sale or receiving money before executing bond as aforesaid, or failing to deposit the money in one or more banks in the county in which the suit or cause is properly instituted as aforesaid, or failing to keep the same therein subject to a decree of distribution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100 and may be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not to exceed ten days.
WV Code § 55-12-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 12. Judicial Sales|§55-12-2. Notice of Sale; Contents; Publication

Whenever a court shall decree the sale of real estate, if it appear to the court that such real estate is of the value of $500 or more, it shall prescribe in the decree that such sale shall be advertised in a newspaper by the commissioner or person appointed to make the sale. It shall always be advertised as a Class III legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the county where the real estate to be sold is situate. In the advertisement the commissioner shall state the time, terms and place of sale, together with a description of the property to be sold: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to limit the power of the court to direct sales of lands to be advertised in newspapers where the value may be less than $500.
WV Code § 55-12-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 12. Judicial Sales|§55-12-3. Certificate as to Bond to Be Appended to Notice of Sale; Effect Thereof

Every notice of such sale shall have appended to it the certificate of such clerk that bond and security has been given by the commissioner or special receiver as required by law. When such certificate shall have been published (or posted, when the notice is posted in lieu of publication) with an advertisement of the sale of property, or when such bond shall have been given prior to a sale not publicly advertised, any person purchasing such property in pursuance of such advertisement, or in pursuance of the decree or order of sale, shall be relieved of all liability for the purchase money, or any part thereof, which he may pay to any commissioner or special receiver as to whom a proper certificate shall have been appended to such advertisement, or who shall have given the bond aforesaid.
WV Code § 55-12-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 12. Judicial Sales|§55-12-4. Report of Sale

The said special commissioner or special receiver shall, after the last payment required by said decree of sale or decree confirming said sale is made, make report to the court in writing, at the next term of the court thereafter, showing how the proceeds of said sale have been applied by him which report shall be approved and entered of record in the chancery order book and filed with the papers in the cause. If from any cause said report showing a final settlement cannot be made within the time aforesaid, the court may enter an order extending the time for a final report to be made. If said commissioner or special receiver fail to make such report, as aforesaid, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500.
WV Code § 55-12-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 12. Judicial Sales|§55-12-5. When Sheriff to Execute Decree or Order of Sale

Where no special commissioner or special receiver is appointed for the purpose, a decree or order of court for the sale of property shall be executed by the sheriff who attends such court, unless the place of sale be out of his county, in which case the sale shall be by the sheriff of the county wherein the place of sale is. Any sheriff or other officer receiving money under any order or decree shall pay the same and account therefor as the court may order; and if he fail so to do, he and the sureties in his official bond shall be liable therefor.
WV Code § 55-12-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 12. Judicial Sales|§55-12-6. Rate of Commission for Services of Special Commissioner

For the services of commissioners or officers under any decree or order for a sale, including the collection and paying over of the proceeds, there shall not be allowed any greater commission than five percent of the amount received by them, unless the court otherwise order. And if a sale be made by one commissioner or officer and the proceeds be collected by another, the court under whose decree or order they acted shall apportion the commission between them as may be just.
WV Code § 55-12-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 12. Judicial Sales|§55-12-7. Appointment of Commissioner to Execute Deed; Effect of Execution

A court of law or equity, in a suit in which it is proper to decree or order the execution of any deed or writing, may appoint a commissioner to execute the same; and the execution thereof shall be as valid to pass, release, or extinguish the right, title and interest of the party on whose behalf it is executed, as if such party had been at the time capable in law of executing the same and had executed it.
WV Code § 55-12-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 12. Judicial Sales|§55-12-8. Title of Purchaser Not Affected by Reversal of Decree of Sale; Restitution of Proceeds

If a sale of property be made under a decree or order of a court, and such sale be confirmed, though such decree or order be afterwards reversed or set aside, the title of the purchaser at such sale shall not be affected thereby; but there may be restitution of the proceeds of sale to those entitled.
WV Code § 55-12A-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 12A. Lease and Conveyance of Mineral Interests Owned by Missing or Unknown Owners or Abandoning Owners|§55-12A-1. Legislative Intent

It is the intent of the Legislature, in empowering the circuit courts of the state, as provided by this article, to facilitate development of coal, oil, gas, and other minerals, as part of the public policy of the state, by removing certain barriers to such development caused by interests in minerals owned by unknown or missing owners or by abandoning owners.