VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 42.030
Attorney and Client Relationship and Third Parties: Apparent Authority
So far as third parties are concerned, an attorney and client relationship exists when the client
has dealt with the third party or acquiesced in the attorney dealing with the third party in such a
way as to cause a person reasonably to believe that an attorney and client relationship exists.
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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