VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 42.020
Scope of Attorney’s Authority
An attorney has the express authority to do everything which the client expressly authorized
him to do and the implied authority to do everything necessary or incidental to the purpose for
which he was retained.
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
b60efbfc81ecc6af761d59a258d16bb518c75eb08303b6e6aa910c0667c0d255
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