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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70980</law_id><section_number>17.1-310</section_number><catch_line>Habeas corpus, appeals, writs of error and supersedeas</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-654</reference></referred_to_by><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 also have <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> to award <span class="dictionary">writs</span> of <span class="dictionary">habeas corpus</span> and of such <span class="dictionary">appeals</span>, <span class="dictionary">writs</span> of error and supersedeas as may be legally docketed in or transferred to the <span class="dictionary">Court</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5865, &#xA7; 17-97; 1995, c. 503; 1998, c. 872; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 344, 345.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
