17.1-500 - Establishment of circuit courts. - Virginia Statutes

§ 17.1-500. Establishment of circuit courts.

For the City of Williamsburg and James City County, and every other county inthe Commonwealth, and the Cities of Alexandria, Bristol, Buena Vista,Charlottesville, Chesapeake, Colonial Heights, Danville, Fredericksburg,Hampton, Hopewell, Lynchburg, Martinsville, Newport News, Norfolk,Petersburg, Portsmouth, Radford, Richmond, Roanoke, Salem, Staunton, Suffolk,Virginia Beach, Waynesboro and Winchester, there shall be a circuit court,which shall be called the circuit court of such county or city, or county andcity, as the case may be. Each city circuit court shall be the sole court ofrecord for the city and have jurisdiction over each suit, motion, prosecutionor thing now or heretofore properly pending in the former courts of record ofthe city and over the records of such courts. Any reference in this Code orin any act of the General Assembly to a corporation, hustings, law andchancery, law and equity, chancery or other court of record of a city shallapply to the circuit court thereof, mutatis mutandis.

(1973, c. 544, § 17-116.1; 1974, c. 297; 1981, c. 628; 1983, c. 580; 1991, c.189; 1998, c. 872; 2006, c. 861.)