Article 1: Composition, Jurisdiction, etc

This article is comprised of the following sections:

§17.1-300 Composition of Court; quorum; Chief Justice
§17.1-301 Presiding justice when Chief Justice absent
§17.1-302 Senior justice
§17.1-303 Election of successor justice before date of vacancy
§17.1-304 Terms and sessions, state of emergency
§17.1-305 Special sessions
§17.1-306 What may be tried at special session; effect of decisions
§17.1-307 Information and recommendations as to other courts
§17.1-308 Court may sit and render final judgment en banc or in divisions; when decision becomes judgment of Court; majority must concur in declaring law unconstitutional; rehearings
§17.1-309 Jurisdiction of writs of mandamus and prohibition
§17.1-310 Habeas corpus, appeals, writs of error and supersedeas
§17.1-311 Where prohibition and mandamus issued and tried
§17.1-312 Where criminal jurisdiction exercised
§17.1-313 Repealed
§17.1-314 Executive Secretary
§17.1-315 Duties of Executive Secretary
§17.1-316 Printing and binding reports of Supreme Court
§17.1-317 Printing and distribution of advance sheets of such reports
§17.1-318 Repealed
§17.1-319 Custody and distribution of reports of Supreme Court; Court of Appeals
§17.1-320 Furnishing reports to law libraries destroyed by fire
§17.1-321 Reporter of Court; his appointment and salary
§17.1-322 Duties
§17.1-323 Clerk to deliver opinions to Reporter
