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This law was first created in 1980. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 615 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1980 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1998, chapter 872<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1390567,"object_type":"law","relational_id":350109,"identifier":"17.1-320","token":"17.1\/3\/1\/17.1-320","url":"\/17.1-320\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/17.1-320\/","token":"17.1\/3\/1\/17.1-320","dublin_core":{"Title":"Furnishing reports to law libraries destroyed by fire","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 17.1-320","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court<\/span> of Virginia is authorized and directed to furnish to the law<\/span> school of any institution of higher education in the Commonwealth whose law<\/span> library has been destroyed by fire, out of any surplus copies on hand and available for such distribution, eight copies of each volume of the Virginia Reports, or so many thereof as may be necessary to replace copies of such volumes which have been destroyed by such fire.<\/p>

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