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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0101\">101<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0996\">996<\/a> 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. 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 2001, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?011+ful+CHAP0763\">763<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":87480,"section_number":"59.1-501.15","catch_line":"Variation by agreement; commercial practice","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-501.15\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":261893,"object_type":"law","relational_id":69535,"identifier":"59.1-501.10","token":"59.1\/43\/1\/59.1-501.10","url":"\/59.1-501.10\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/59.1-501.10\/","token":"59.1\/43\/1\/59.1-501.10","dublin_core":{"Title":"Contractual choice of forum","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 59.1-501.10","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"a\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">a.<\/span> The parties in their agreement may choose an exclusive judicial forum unless the choice is unreasonable or unjust. <a id=\"paragraph-251399\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/59.1-501.10\/#a\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"b\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">b.<\/span> A judicial forum specified in an agreement is not exclusive unless the agreement expressly so provides and, in a mass-market transaction, expressly and conspicuously so provides. <a id=\"paragraph-251400\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/59.1-501.10\/#b\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCONTRACTUAL CHOICE OF FORUM (\u00a7 59.1-501.10)\n\na. The parties in their agreement may choose an exclusive judicial forum unless\nthe choice is unreasonable or unjust.\n\nb. A judicial forum specified in an agreement is not exclusive unless the\nagreement expressly so provides and, in a mass-market transaction, expressly and\nconspicuously so provides.\n\nHISTORY: 2000, cc. 101, 996; 2001, c. 763.","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}}