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This law was first created in 2004. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 794<\/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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":80445,"section_number":"59.1-501.13:1","catch_line":"Opportunity to review","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-501.13_1\/"}],"permalink":{"id":261917,"object_type":"law","relational_id":78044,"identifier":"59.1-501.14:1","token":"59.1\/43\/1\/59.1-501.14_1","url":"\/59.1-501.14_1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/59.1-501.14_1\/","token":"59.1\/43\/1\/59.1-501.14_1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Pretransaction disclosures in Internet-type transactions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 59.1-501.14:1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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