VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 27.040
Damages: Severance of Goods From Land
If you find by the greater weight of the evidence that the defendant removed the plaintiff’s
(specify goods) from the plaintiff’s land without authority, the defendant trespassed and is liable to
the plaintiff in damages.
If the defendant’s act was a willful trespass, the measure of damages is the value of the (specify
goods) with any increase in their value attributable to the labor of the defendant.
If the defendant’s act was not a willful trespass, the measure of damages is the value of the
(specify goods) immediately before they were removed from the land.
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
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