VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 6.050
Contributory Negligence: Parties’ Negligence Not Compared
If you find from the greater weight of the evidence that both the plaintiff and the defendant
were negligent and that their negligence proximately contributed to the accident, you may not
compare the negligence of the parties. Any negligence of the plaintiff which was a proximate
cause of the accident will bar the plaintiff from recovering.
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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