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§ 1-200. The common law - The common law of England, insofar as it is not...
§ 1-201. Acts of Parliament - The right and benefit of all writs, remedial and judicial,...
§ 1-202. General rule of construction - The rules and definitions set forth in this chapter shall...
§ 1-203. Adult - "Adult" means a person 18 years of age or more....
§ 1-204. Age of majority - For the purposes of all laws of the Commonwealth including...
§ 1-205. Bond with surety - "Bond with surety" includes the payment in cash of the...
§ 1-206. Certified mail equivalent to registered mail; certain subsequent mail or notice may be sent by regular mail - A. If any mail or notice is required to be...
§ 1-207. Child; juvenile; minor; infant - "Child," "juvenile," "minor," "infant," or any combination thereof means a...
§ 1-208. City - "City" means an independent incorporated community which became a city...
§ 1-208.1. Carbon-free energy; clean energy - "Carbon-free energy" or "clean energy" includes electric energy generated from...
§ 1-209. Collegial body - "Collegial body" means a governmental entity whose power or authority...
§ 1-210. Computation of time - A. When an act of the General Assembly or rule...
§ 1-211. Constitutional references - Whenever any act of the General Assembly in effect at...
§ 1-211.1. (Effective until July 1, 2024) Courthouse; posting of notices - If any notice, summons, order, or other official document of...
§ 1-211.1. (Effective July 1, 2024) Courthouse; posting of notices - If any notice, summons, order, or other official document of...
§ 1-212. Courts of record - "Courts of record" means the Supreme Court of Virginia, the...
§ 1-213. Delegation of duties assigned to political subdivision - The governing body of a political subdivision shall be responsible...
§ 1-214. Effective dates - A. All laws enacted at a regular session of the...
§ 1-215. Ex officio - "Ex officio" means service by virtue of one's office and...
§ 1-216. Gender - A word used in the masculine includes the feminine and...
§ 1-217. Headlines of sections - The headlines of the sections printed in black-face type are...
§ 1-218. Includes - "Includes" means includes, but not limited to. 2005, c. 839.
§ 1-219. Land; real estate - "Land," "lands," or "real estate" includes lands, tenements and hereditaments,...
§ 1-219.1. Limitations on eminent domain - A. The right to private property being a fundamental right,...
§ 1-220. Local ordinances incorporating state law by reference - When counties, cities and towns are empowered to incorporate by...
§ 1-221. Locality - "Locality" means a county, city, or town as the context...
§ 1-222. Majority authority - Whenever authority is conferred by law to three or more...
§ 1-222.1. Manufacturer - "Manufacturer" shall not include any farm or aggregation of farms...
§ 1-223. Month; year - "Month" means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar...
§ 1-224. Municipality; incorporated communities; municipal corporation - "Municipality," "incorporated communities," "municipal corporation," and words or terms of...
§ 1-225. Nonlegislative citizen member - "Nonlegislative citizen member" means any natural person who is not...
§ 1-226. Notary - "Notary" means notary public. Code 1919, § 5; Code 1950,...
§ 1-227. Number - A word used in the singular includes the plural and...
§ 1-228. Oath - "Oath" includes affirmation. Code 1919, § 5; Code 1950, §...
§ 1-229. Optional form of county government; effect of change in form - Whenever any county, city, town, political subdivision, or combination thereof...
§ 1-230. Person - "Person" includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability...
§ 1-231. When "person" includes business trust and limited liability company - Whenever the term "person" is defined to include both "corporation"...
§ 1-232. Person under disability - "Person under disability" includes a person less than 18 years...
§ 1-233. Personal estate - "Personal estate" includes chattels real and such other estate as,...
§ 1-234. Personal representative - "Personal representative" includes the executor of a will or the...
§ 1-235. Population; inhabitants - "Population" or "inhabitants" means with reference to any county, city,...
§ 1-236. Population classifications - Any act of the General Assembly with a population classification...
§ 1-237. Process - "Process" includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil...
§ 1-238. Reenacted - "Reenacted," when used in the title or enactment of a...
§ 1-239. Repeal not to affect liabilities; mitigation of punishment - No new act of the General Assembly shall be construed...
§ 1-240. Repeal not to revive former act - When an act of the General Assembly that has repealed...
§ 1-240.1. Rights of parents - A parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning...
§ 1-241. Seal - "Seal," when required to be affixed by any court or...
§ 1-242. Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections - "Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections," whenever the Committee is...
§ 1-243. Severability - The provisions of acts of the General Assembly or the...
§ 1-244. Short title citations - Whenever a subtitle, chapter, or article does not have a...
§ 1-245. State - "State," when applied to a part of the United States,...
§ 1-246. Stricken language or italics - Stricken language for deletions and italics for additions or changes...
§ 1-247. Summaries of legislation - Any legislative summary associated with a bill, joint resolution or...
§ 1-248. Supremacy of federal and state law - The Constitution and laws of the United States and of...
§ 1-249. Supreme Court - "Supreme Court" means the Supreme Court of Virginia. 1975, c....
§ 1-250. Swear; sworn - "Swear" or "sworn" means "affirm" or "affirmed." Code 1919, §...
§ 1-251. Systems of state highways - "Systems of state highways" means all systems of highways within...
§ 1-252. Tier-city - "Tier-city" means an incorporated community within a consolidated county that...
§ 1-253. Time zone - The United States Eastern Standard Time shall be in effect...
§ 1-254. Town - "Town" means any existing town or an incorporated community within...
§ 1-255. United States - "United States" includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia...
§ 1-256. Weights and measurements; metric equivalents - Words or terms relating to the customary system of weights...
§ 1-257. Written; writing; in writing - "Written," "writing," and "in writing" include any representation of words,...