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This law was first created in 1977. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 617 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 1977 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":277373,"object_type":"law","relational_id":77990,"identifier":"8.01-388","token":"8.01\/14\/1\/8.01-388","url":"\/8.01-388\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.01-388\/","token":"8.01\/14\/1\/8.01-388","dublin_core":{"Title":"Judicial notice of official publications (Supreme Court Rule 2:203 derived from this section)","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.01-388","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The court<\/span> shall take judicial notice of the contents of all official publications<\/span> of this Commonwealth and its political subdivisions and agencies required to be published pursuant to the laws thereof<\/span>, and of all such official publications<\/span> of other states, of the United States, of other countries, and of the political subdivisions and agencies of each published within those jurisdictions<\/span> pursuant to the laws thereof.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nJUDICIAL NOTICE OF OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS (SUPREME COURT RULE 2:203 DERIVED FROM\nTHIS SECTION) (\u00a7 8.01-388)\n\nThe court shall take judicial notice of the contents of all official\npublications of this Commonwealth and its political subdivisions and agencies\nrequired to be published pursuant to the laws thereof, and of all such official\npublications of other states, of the United States, of other countries, and of\nthe political subdivisions and agencies of each published within those\njurisdictions pursuant to the laws thereof.\n\nHISTORY: 1977, c. 617.","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}}