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This law was first created in 2000. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 101<\/a> and 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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":262207,"object_type":"law","relational_id":61428,"identifier":"59.1-506.14","token":"59.1\/43\/6\/59.1-506.14","url":"\/59.1-506.14\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/59.1-506.14\/","token":"59.1\/43\/6\/59.1-506.14","dublin_core":{"Title":"Risk of loss of copy","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 59.1-506.14","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

a.<\/span> Except as otherwise provided in this section, the risk of loss as to a copy that is to be delivered to a licensee, including a copy delivered by electronic means, passes to the licensee upon its receipt of the copy. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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