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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60503</law_id><section_number>17.1-308</section_number><catch_line>Court may sit and render final judgment en banc or in divisions; when decision becomes judgment of Court; majority must concur in declaring law unconstitutional; rehearings</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Supreme Court</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Composition, Jurisdiction, etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> may sit and render final <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> <span class="dictionary">en banc</span> or in divisions, as may be prescribed by rules of the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> not inconsistent with the provisions of this section. No decision shall become the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Court</span>, however, except on the concurrence of at least three justices, and no <span class="dictionary">law</span> shall be declared unconstitutional under either the Constitution of Virginia or the Constitution of the United States except on the concurrence of at least a majority of all justices of the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span>. If the justices composing any division differ as to the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> to be rendered in any cause or if any justice of such division, within a time and in a manner to be fixed by the rules of the <span class="dictionary">Court</span>, shall certify that in his <span class="dictionary">opinion</span> any decision of such division of the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> is in conflict with a prior decision of the <span class="dictionary">Court</span>, or of one of the divisions thereof, the case shall be reheard and decided by the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> sitting <span class="dictionary">en banc</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5862, &#xA7; 17-94; 1938, p. 133; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 51; 1998, c. 872.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
