17.1-121 - Effect of change of time or place of court or failure to sit generally. - Virginia Statutes

§ 17.1-121. Effect of change of time or place of court or failure to sitgenerally.

When the place for holding any court or the day for commencing any term ischanged or when a court fails to sit on any day appointed for it or to whichit may have adjourned there shall be no discontinuance, but every notice,recognizance or process given, taken or returnable to the day on which thefailure occurred, or to any day between that day and the next that the courtmay sit, or to the day and place as it was before such change, and allmatters ready for the court to act upon if it had been held on any such dayshall be in the same condition and have the same effect as if given, taken,returnable, or continued to the substituted term or place, or to the next dayof the same term that the court may sit, or to the next court in course, asthe case may be.

In the interest of justice, the chief judges of the Twenty-first and theTwenty-third Judicial Circuits may, by order, designate one or more of thecourtrooms of any circuit court within their respective circuits as thecourtroom or courtrooms in which civil or criminal cases whose venue is laidwithin the circuit may be tried. In criminal cases, jurors summoned to appearat such courtroom or courtrooms shall reside in the locality in which thecrime was committed, except as otherwise provided by law.

(Code 1919, § 5971, § 17-24; 1998, c. 872; 2005, c. 389.)