VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 24.000
Landlord’s Duty Upon Surrendering Control
A landlord who knows that a dangerous condition exists has a duty to warn the tenant about it
before the tenant enters into possession. The landlord does not have this duty when the condition
is open and obvious or if the tenant knew of the condition or should have discovered it by making a
reasonable inspection.
If a landlord fails to perform this duty, then the landlord is negligent.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
- Content hash
a9262169b38c5815eeeee9cec931c61481924085528c1595d3505f69bbf7fe19
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.