                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SPECIAL TERMS; WHEN, HOW AND BY WHOM APPOINTED (§ 17.1-518)

If any term of a circuit court is to end, or has ended, without the dispatch of
all its business or if there be a failure to hold any term or it is expedient in
the opinion of the judge of the court to hold a special term for the trial of
any cause pending in such court or of issues made up in any cause by consent of
parties, or if the situation of a person confined in jail for trial in such
circuit court makes it proper that his case should be disposed of before the
next regular term thereof, or necessity in the judge&#8217;s opinion requires
it, the judge of such circuit court or, if he is dead or is unable from any
cause to hold his court, the judge of any other circuit court who has been
designated to hold such terms, may, by order entered in such court or by a
warrant directed to the clerk, appoint a special term thereof and prescribe in
such order or warrant whether any venire is to be summoned to attend the term.
The clerk shall inform the attorney for the Commonwealth and the sheriff of such
appointment, post a copy of the warrant or order at the front door of the
courthouse and issue all proper process to such special term and the sheriff
shall execute the process.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5894, § 17-129; 1973, c. 544; 1998, c. 872.