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Virginia's Lemon Law: The Best Treatment For Car Owner's Canker?, Carol S. Nance Jan 1985

Virginia's Lemon Law: The Best Treatment For Car Owner's Canker?, Carol S. Nance

University of Richmond Law Review

The consumer advocacy movement of the late 1970's induced the Congress and the state legislatures to enact numerous consumer protection statutes. Unfortunately, several years elapsed before the public and the legislatures realized that those statutes did not protect the consumer in what is frequently the consumer's most significant personal purchase-the automobile.


Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Commercial Law, Michael J. Herbert Jan 1985

Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Commercial Law, Michael J. Herbert

University of Richmond Law Review

During its 1984 and 1985 sessions, the General Assembly enacted a number of minor technical amendments to Virginia's Uniform Commercial Code. These included both the much-needed and long-awaited change of the word "state" to "Commonwealth" throughout the Code and a series of inexplicable revisions in the Code's punctuation. The most significant of these technical changes was undoubtedly the increase in the filing fees for Article 9 financing statements filed with the State Corporation Commission. (One substantial legislative change which indirectly affects the Code was the enactment of Virginia's new "Lemon Law." Some aspects of that statute are discussed below in …