Composition, Jurisdiction, Etc
This is Article 1 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Composition, Jurisdiction, Etc.” It is part of Title 17.1, titled “Courts Of Record.” It is part of Chapter 3, titled “Supreme Court.” It’s comprised of the following 24 sections.
- § 17.1-300
- Composition of Court; quorum; Chief Justice
- § 17.1-301
- Presiding justice when Chief Justice absent
- § 17.1-302
- Senior justice
- § 17.1-303
- Election of successor justice before date of vacancy
- § 17.1-304
- Terms and sessions, state of emergency
- § 17.1-305
- Special sessions
- § 17.1-306
- What may be tried at special session; effect of decisions
- § 17.1-307
- Information and recommendations as to other courts
- § 17.1-308
- Court may sit and render final judgment en banc or in divisions; when decision becomes judgment of Court; majority must concur in declaring law unconstitutional; rehearings
- § 17.1-309
- Jurisdiction of writs of mandamus and prohibition
- § 17.1-310
- Habeas corpus, appeals, writs of error and supersedeas
- § 17.1-311
- Where prohibition and mandamus issued and tried
- § 17.1-312
- Where criminal jurisdiction exercised
- § 17.1-313
- Review of death sentence
- § 17.1-314
- Executive Secretary
- § 17.1-315
- Duties of Executive Secretary
- § 17.1-316
- Printing and binding reports of Supreme Court
- § 17.1-317
- Printing and distribution of advance sheets of such reports
- § 17.1-318
- Repealed
- § 17.1-319
- Custody and distribution of reports of Supreme Court; Court of Appeals
- § 17.1-320
- Furnishing reports to law libraries destroyed by fire
- § 17.1-321
- Reporter of Court; his appointment and salary
- § 17.1-322
- Duties
- § 17.1-323
- Clerk to deliver opinions to Reporter