Composition, Jurisdiction, etc

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This is Article 1 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Composition, Jurisdiction, etc.” It is part of Chapter 3 “Supreme Court”, which is part of Title 17.1 “Courts of Record”.

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§ 17.1-313	Repealed
§ 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§ 17.1-318	Repealed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