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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 3 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 1962 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. 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. Those modifications are as follows: in 1978, chapter 480; in 1998, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0872\">872<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":80487,"section_number":"17.1-506","catch_line":"Judicial circuits","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-506\/"}],"permalink":{"id":163731,"object_type":"law","relational_id":81563,"identifier":"17.1-508","token":"17.1\/5\/1\/17.1-508","url":"\/17.1-508\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/17.1-508\/","token":"17.1\/5\/1\/17.1-508","dublin_core":{"Title":"Judges in new or changed circuits; ratifying, validating and confirming certain actions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 17.1-508","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>In any case heretofore or hereafter arising in which a <span class=\"dictionary\">judge<\/span> has been <span class=\"dictionary\">judge<\/span> of a <span class=\"dictionary\">circuit<\/span> created under \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Judicial circuits\" href=\"\/17.1-506\/\">17.1-506<\/a> as amended, and the counties and cities, or one or more of them, have been transferred to and constituted as part of a new judicial <span class=\"dictionary\">circuit<\/span> and the remaining counties and cities constituted as a <span class=\"dictionary\">circuit<\/span>, the <span class=\"dictionary\">judges<\/span> of the respective <span class=\"dictionary\">circuits<\/span> are hereby declared to be <span class=\"dictionary\">judges<\/span> of said <span class=\"dictionary\">circuits<\/span> in which they reside and their actions are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nJUDGES IN NEW OR CHANGED CIRCUITS; RATIFYING, VALIDATING AND CONFIRMING CERTAIN\nACTIONS (\u00a7 17.1-508)\n\nIn any case heretofore or hereafter arising in which a judge has been judge of a\ncircuit created under \u00a7 17.1-506 as amended, and the counties and cities, or\none or more of them, have been transferred to and constituted as part of a new\njudicial circuit and the remaining counties and cities constituted as a circuit,\nthe judges of the respective circuits are hereby declared to be judges of said\ncircuits in which they reside and their actions are hereby ratified, validated\nand confirmed.\n\nHISTORY: 1962, c. 3, \u00a7 17-119.2; 1978, c. 480; 1998, c. 872.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}