§ 8.01-304.How process served on copartner or partnership, domestic or foreign limited liability partnership, and domestic or foreign limited partnership.

Subsection A handles ordinary copartnerships and partnerships: process served on a general partner is deemed service on the partnership itself and on each partner individually named in the action, as long as the person served is not a plaintiff in the suit and the matter in suit is a partnership matter. A limited partner, by contrast, may be served only in a proceeding brought to enforce that limited partner's own liability to the partnership.

Subsections B and C give registered limited liability partnerships and limited partnerships their own service framework, tracking the corporate model. A domestic or foreign limited liability partnership may be served by personal service on its registered agent, or by substituted service under the specific Title 50 provisions the subsection cross-references. A domestic or foreign limited partnership follows the same pattern, though a different set of Title 50 provisions applies to it.