                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EFFECT OF SUCH REPEAL GENERALLY; EFFECT OF REVISION OR AMENDMENT OF STATE
CONSTITUTION (§ 1-4)

No such repeal nor any amendment or revision of the Constitution of Virginia
shall affect any offense or act committed or done, or any penalty or forfeiture
incurred, or any right established, accrued, or accruing before the day upon
which such repeal, amendment or revision takes effect, or any prosecution, suit,
or proceeding pending on that day, except that the proceedings thereafter had
shall conform, so far as practicable, to the provisions of this Code; and where
any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment is mitigated by those provisions, such
provisions may, with the consent of the party affected, be applied to any
judgment to be pronounced after that day; and such repeal, amendment or revision
as to any statute of limitations, under which the bar of a right of action or
remedy is complete at the time the repeal, amendment or revision takes effect,
shall not be deemed a removal of such bar, but the bar shall continue,
notwithstanding such repeal, amendment or revision.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 6569; R. P. 1948, § 1-4; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 14.