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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>350095</law_id><section_number>17.1-306</section_number><catch_line>What may be tried at special session; effect of decisions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="50" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="3">Supreme Court</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Composition, Jurisdiction, Etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>At any such special session, the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span>, by consent of the parties or their <span class="dictionary">counsel</span>, may hear and determine any cause then ready for a <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>, or, without such consent, upon twenty days&#x2019; previous notice in writing, given by a <span class="dictionary">party</span> desiring a <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> to the adverse <span class="dictionary">party</span>, of his intention to insist on the same. The <span class="dictionary">Court</span>, at such special session, shall, after notice to the parties or their <span class="dictionary">counsel</span> from the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">Court</span>, hear any cause which, in its <span class="dictionary">opinion</span>, the public interest requires to be heard and determined. Any <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>, <span class="dictionary">decree</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span> entered or made at such special session shall have the same effect and may be reviewed and reheard in like manner and subject to the same rules as a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>, <span class="dictionary">decree</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span> entered or made at a regular session.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5886, &#xA7; 17-102; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 51; 1998, c. 872.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
