Discover the Code of Virginia
The laws of Virginia, for non-lawyers.
Virginia Decoded provides the Code of Virginia on one friendly website. Inline
definitions, cross-references, bulk downloads, a modern API, and all of the niceties
of modern website design. It’s like the expensive software lawyers use, but free and
wonderful.
This is a public beta test of Virginia Decoded, which is to say that everything
is under development. Things are funny looking, broken, and generally unreliable
right now.
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Inline Definitions
Throughout the Code of Virginia, very specific legal definitions are
provided for terminology both specialized and mundane. If you don’t know which
words have special definitions, and what those definitions are, then you can’t
understand what a law really means. Virginia Decoded solves this
problem neatly, by identifying every definition in the Code of Virginia and
providing a pop-up definition every time that a defined word appears.
Bulk Downloads
Virginia Decoded isn’t just a pretty website—you can take the laws with
you, too. On our downloads page you can get copies
of all of the laws of Virginia in any format that you like, to do
whatever you like with. They’re available in formats meant for you to read
and in formats meant for software to read, too. If you’re a software developer,
you’ll love our API!