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§ 1-1 Contents and designation of Code

The laws embraced in this and the following titles, chapters, articles and sections of this act shall constitute, and be designated and cited as the “Code of Virginia,” hereinafter referred to as “the Code” or “this Code.”

History

The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. The oldest record of it is its appearance in the Code of Virginia of 1919, as § 1. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1948, when it was recompiled as § 1-1. .

Code 1919, § 1; R. P. 1948, § 1-1. 

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