                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REPEAL NOT TO AFFECT LIABILITIES; MITIGATION OF PUNISHMENT (§ 1-239)

No new act of the General Assembly shall be construed to repeal a former law, as
to any offense committed against the former law, or as to any act done, any
penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred, or any right accrued, or claim
arising under the former law, or in any way whatever to affect any such offense
or act so committed or done, or any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment so
incurred, or any right accrued, or claim arising before the new act of the
General Assembly takes effect; except that the proceedings thereafter held shall
conform, so far as practicable, to the laws in force at the time of such
proceedings; and if any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment be mitigated by any
provision of the new act of the General Assembly, such provision may, with the
consent of the party affected, be applied to any judgment pronounced after the
new act of the General Assembly takes effect.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 6, § 1-16; 2005, c. 839.