VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 36.081
Finding Instruction: Assault—Affirmative Defenses
You shall find your verdict for the plaintiff if the plaintiff proved by the greater weight of the
evidence that the defendant intentionally threatened him by some act that put him in reasonable
fear of imminent physical injury. Intent may be inferred from the nature of the act and the
surrounding circumstances.
You shall find your verdict for the defendant:
(1) if the plaintiff failed to prove an assault; or
(2) if the defendant proved by the greater weight of the evidence that he acted in self-defense.
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
021e048285d1b928a1c4e9ef1bd6cbfac63121b50d9ac8f0fc330f40f72de8f0
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.