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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63380</law_id><section_number>59.1-501.8</section_number><catch_line>Proof and effect of authentication</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>59.1-501.17</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="43">Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> Authentication may be proven in any manner, including a showing that a <span class="dictionary">party</span> made use of information or access that could have been available only if it engaged in conduct or operations that authenticated the record or term. <a id="paragraph-230936" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-501.8/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Compliance with a commercially reasonable attribution procedure agreed to or adopted by the parties or established by <span class="dictionary">law</span> for authenticating a record authenticates the record as a matter of <span class="dictionary">law</span>. <a id="paragraph-230937" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-501.8/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, cc. 101, 996.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
