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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67392</law_id><section_number>17.1-309</section_number><catch_line>Jurisdiction of writs of mandamus and prohibition</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> shall have <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> <span class="dictionary">writs</span> of mandamus and prohibition to the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> and district <span class="dictionary">courts</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span>, and to the State Corporation Commission and in all other cases in which such <span class="dictionary">writs</span>, respectively, would lie according to the principles of the <span class="dictionary">common law</span>. Provided that no <span class="dictionary">writ of mandamus</span>, prohibition or any other summary process whatever shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> in any case of the collection of revenue or attempt to collect the same, or to compel the collecting officers to receive anything in payment of taxes except such money as is legal tender for the payment of revenue, or in any case arising out of the collection of revenue in which the applicant for the writ of process has any other remedy adequate for the protection and enforcement of his individual right, claim and demand, if just.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5864, &#xA7; 17-96; 1998, c. 872; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 489.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
