VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 8.030
Scope of Employment—Presumption and Burden of Production
If you find by the greater weight of the evidence that (name of employee) was the employee of
(name of employer), the defendant, you may presume that (name of employee) was acting within the
scope of employment. Once an employer-employee relationship has been established, the burden is
on the (name of employer), the defendant, to present evidence that the (name of employee) was not
acting within the scope of employment when the act was committed.
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
395c26742c05c92c030cc69603a0e9f58df0047e57dcba8f0aa18c673dda23a1
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